A small puzzle game I developed for the theana jam. I hope you like it!
Solved some bugs.
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Stratagem is a match-3 game: its objective is to get as many points as possible by swapping adjacent gems to clear touching groups on the grid. Spend your chances to make wrong non-matching moves wisely; once you run out, it's game over!
Changelog
v0.5.0
- Bit-shift scores down by 16 to increase maximum score value
- Let the player gain 1 chance per level
v0.4.1
- Hotfix: reset player combo when leveling up
v0.4.0
- Add animations in between game states
- Add mouse controls
- Add better instructions for incrementing release versions
- Split cubic easing into its own function
- Fix UI nitpicks
- Move "level-up" logic elsewhere from idle game state
- Simplify particle animations by using quadratic ease-out
v0.3.1
- Hotfix: update label & bump version number
v0.3.0
- Player can now move the cursor during gem-matching combos (#32)
- Left-pad score in HUD (#26)
- Fix #34 by separating functions into files (#35)
- Use off-screen printing to calculate text width (#33)
- Use spr instead of sspr for drawing gem grid (#28)
- New animations leveling up, swapping gems, & clearing matches (#14)
- Nerfed overpowered scoring rules (#27)
v0.2.0
- Fix #24: rearrange state transitions to act like other Match-3s
- Fix #20: add menu option for resetting leaderboard
- Gem resprite by squaremango
- Fix #18: Bring back pico-tool & update cart building scripts
- Fix #12: add credits screen
View its source code here: https://github.com/vm70/stratagem
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This is a fighting game test made completely through ChatGPT and Claude a couple months ago.
I am not going to go any further with this, but maybe someone will find it useful for their own project.
Player 1 uses the default controls. I belive X is heavy attack (slower but does more damage) and O is light attack.
You can do a quarter-circle-forward motion plus one of the attacks and it will throw a fireball (like a hadouken from Street Fighter: down, then down+forward, then forward+attack but in one smooth motion). The attack button used determines the speed.
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the issue
when you open the readme on Linux, it's empty.when you open it in an external editor, it shows -[[pod]] then a load of gibberish. for whatever reason, when i try to copy paste said gibberish, it comes up with this:
--[[pod]] lz4 |
I'm not sure if it's user error (I'm quite new to picotron) or something else.
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Tony the Tiny Chef
I took part in the GMTK Game Jam, and made this game about a tiny chef who has to cook an English breakfast
Controls
Press X to pick up and drop food items.
Press Z to start the game
Some food may require chopping before being fried.
Don't leave food on the frying pan for too long, or it may burn.
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Tweetcart- all source code is 280 characters or less.
Edit in Education edition here!
The blue lines indicate the trajectory of simulated particles as they are pulled by the planets' gravity. If a particle hits a planet (one of the colored outlines) it colors its originating pixel the color of that planet. If a particle doesn't hit a planet within a certain number of steps in the simulation, it colors the originating pixel black.
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Hey all!
So, as it turns out, porting Picovania to Picotron was pretty straightforward! I've decided to
continue, now that constraints have been lifted!
Pardon our dust...
Controls:
Press ⬅️ and ➡️ to move left and
right
Press ⬇️ to duck
Press ⬆️ or ⬇️ in front of a stair
railing to ascend or descend stairs
as appropriate
Press ❎ to jump
Press 🅾️ to use your whip
Hold ⬆️ and press 🅾️ to throw a
sub weapon
Instructions:
-
Whip candles to collect sub weapons,
hearts and money bags -
Hearts supply you with ammo for your
sub weapon -
Money bags award points
- Collect a porkchop to gain 6 health, up to a maximum of 16
- Collect the Multi stone for Multi Shot, which allows you to have more sub weapons on-screen
at once!- Multi Shot can be upgraded twice, but if you collect a different sub weapon or die you will lose it
I will update this post to keep everyone up to speed when I upload a new cart. Check out the spoiler
below if you're interested!
Change Log:
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Docs currently doesn't work on the BBS.
Introduction
Docs has been built so that it can be a helpful companion while you code. It is built so that others can add their own files to docs if their app requires documentation.
Installation
In the terminal run load #docs and then save it with save apps/docs.p64
Updating
To update the documentation in Settings click "Force Update".
Note
The Picotron documentation is currently being added, and so the current version has incomplete information. If you would like to help write the documentation feel free to reach out to me.
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Recently, I've been working on a word-typing game called Catreeboard with my son. At the beginning and to simply get the game to a state where we could work on animations and gameplay, I naively created a simple table-based dictionary that is subdivided by length of the word. It looked something like this:
dictionary = {
{
"a",
"i",
"on",
"at",
"it",
"is",
},
{
"cat",
"dog",
"sun",
"hat",
"bat",
"pen",
},
{
"home",
"love",
"ball",
"star",
"blue",
},
{
"house",
"quick",
"plant",
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Goal
You are the faithless embryo of an ancient rot. Your body has been magically imbued once more to grant it proper form. With 3 companions, you're tasked with confronting the oncoming threat.
Keep your party members in fighting form and drive back the endless monstrosities!
Controls
As the party healer you can:
O button - Heal target/Reconstitute downed party member
X button - Attack target
Thanks so much for checkin' it out!!
This is my first jump into Pico-8 and it's been a LONG time since i've played around with game development, so lemme know if you find any bugs! I had a ton of fun putting this together over the last month, thanks to many tips and tricks from this community! <3
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Music by Remi Mixer / Remixer
Animation by Autopawn (Excellent work btw!)
This is a brief music preview for the Murder Drones Virtual Training Sequel. Some hot situation they brought themselves.
Play Murder Drones Virtual Training 1 Here!
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Okay, here's what's happening.
- PICO-8 open, playing a game.
- We pause the game (with the Enter key) to go do something away from the computer.
- We lock the computer with a key combination (Super+L) - meaning that PICO-8 was the active window before the screen was locked.
- We return and type our password on the KDE Plasma lockscreen and hit Enter to enter it.
What we expect: the computer unlocks, PICO-8 is as it was before, paused.
What we usually see: the computer unlocks and simultaneously PICO-8 unpauses.
Just to check, we did the same series of steps with this text entry box in Firefox and Firefox does not register an Enter key press, so I'm guessing this is a weird edge case in how PICO-8 determines if the Enter key has been pressed.
In case the specifics are relevant, we are using Plasma 6 on NixOS 24.05 (Uakari).
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Making myself accountable for being more productive. Trying to consider which of my prototypes I want to focus on for the next few months and make it into a fully realized game.
Prototypes include the following:
1.) Platformer - Rival faerie-folk engaged in a game of cat & mouse with environmental repercussions on the line.
2.) Platformer - Dedicated to a well-known comedy character following chapters of his titular movie.
3.) FVS - Fixed Vertical Shooter styled after Galaga, Phoenix, and other games from the classic arcade era.
I have a treasure chest of other ideas that are only partially realized and in need of initial development, while these three have more effort already put in. I will try and settle on one by the end of the week while trying to balance all my other duties; we have a big event happening on Friday/Saturday so that will certainly be the bulk of my attention & energy for now.
Thoughts?
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I've whipped up a couple python scripts which I think could help with developing in external editors.
DO NOT run these on your only copies of data.
They haven't been tested much and could ruin your files. Please make a new copy of your cart or project folder before running either script (and generally always use git).
I haven't tested them at all for my own picotron projects yet, but it looks like they can open and save as I hoped.
The repo is here https://github.com/Gaiko-sw/picotron-external-build and it includes a readme with instructions.
The gist is that you can use the export script to turn an existing cart into a folder of lua files and a skel.p64 with the assets. You can edit the code in the lua files externally and the p64 assets in picotron, and they get pasted back together in the build step.
I'm not really sure what other people's workflows look like, but let me know if you think this could be useful.
I'll still need to test these scripts myself, but if you're brave you can try it yourself now.
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Hello hello!
I've recently discovered that @samhocevar had made a small tool (midi2pico8) to use MIDI controllers with the PICO-8 tracker. I've iterated on it for my personal use and thought it might be worth sharing to the community. I hope it can be of use to some people!
So here it is:
midi2pico8dx
Midi2pico8dx is a small commandline utility that maps MIDI input to keyboard keys for use in PICO-8.
- Bind keys, buttons and knobs to keyboard inputs!
- A single json config file to simply create or edit key bindings!
- The config file supports profiles. Have different bindings for all your MIDI controllers!
- MIDI controller auto detection & profile auto selection!
Forked from https://github.com/samhocevar/midi2pico8.
Instructions
- (if you want to configure midi2pico8dx, open, edit and save config.json prior to running the program)
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Carrot Up is a cute shmup!
🥕 you're a carrot in a bunny's dream
🐰 satisfy hungry bunnies by throwing carrot tops at them
💥 beware! If you don't feed them fast enough, they'll come bite you and throw dust bunnies at you
🧃 collect juice boxes and choose between restoring HP or making a big spread shot of baby carrots (bunny satisfaction guaranteed)
Controls
- use arrows to move
- use X to shoot carrot tops
- use Z to spread-shoot baby carrots
- use P or enter to pause
Juice Boxes
Collect carrot juice boxes and use z to shoot carrot babies! The more boxes you save, the more baby carrots your spread shot will contain. Or collect up to 5 boxes to restore one health - if you have all your HP, collecting 5 boxes will grant you extra points! ✨
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