I saw a neat algorithm for generating mazes on YouTube called "Origin Shift" and tried it out in PICO-8. Works pretty good!

This first cartridge generates a maze and puts a player inside it. You can move around. Pressing X will generate a new maze. The algorithm guarantees that any cell in the maze is reachable from all the other cells. So you can regenerate the maze around the player without worrying that they'll be trapped.

Maybe this becomes a game; maybe not.

origin_shift_maze

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origin_shift_maze

by TommySezSoWhat

Cart #origin_shift_maze-0 | 2024-10-17 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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This second cartridge was for debugging. The idea with Origin Shift is that the maze is a directed tree graph with a root, or origin. You start with a very simple "maze" and then iterate a bunch of times, moving the origin around, swapping pointers to ensure the whole thing stays a directed tree graph. But my code wasn't working, so I needed to visualize what was happening better...

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borurisajo

by uncertifiedloaf

Cart #borurisajo-0 | 2024-10-16 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

AND BEFORE I FORGET how can i make the level 4 camera work?

Hi!
Sorry If m last posts were aggressive or just have'nt done anything in a while.

Atari, Being a low level game console, I was wondering If that could happen In P-8.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

[sfx]

https://snabisch.itch.io/free-music-sequences-for-pico-8

escape_the_hive

by Rowlet311

Cart #escape_the_hive-5 | 2024-11-13 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

2

Sorry all I have messed up the upload and have uploaded the wrong game ,but it is fixed now.
This is a game based on Ridley Scott's Alien Franchise. The main character's sprite is a re-coloration of Celeste Classic's player sprite.

New collision update

Your name is Ellen Ripley. You have just killed the Alien Queen. Now escape the hive.

Please comment any suggestions to get the creative juices flowing, also please comment anything I need to fix. Thanks!

Flip-Side (V2)

by bilodau

Cart #flipside-1 | 2024-10-15 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

Here is Thinkfun's Flip-Side puzzle in the Pico-8 engine. Very minimal I know.

Maid to Fish

by sMattGuy

Cart #maidtofish-0 | 2024-10-15 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

15

Controls

On the main menu, use up and down to control number of fish and left and right to change starting difficulty
In game, the main buttons are direction inputs shown on the right.
The source code can be found here

Credits

Coding done by me,
Art done by Susu

Space Shooter

by noiD_on_scratch

Cart #pebenoyoh-0 | 2024-10-14 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

1

Here is just the bear-bones of this project that I've whipped up.
Uploading this to view my journey into learning Lua

The Debug menu can be viewed by pausing, selecting debug and then selecting continue

jelpi_tas

by Haizlbliek

Cart #jelpi_tas-0 | 2024-10-14 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

It's just a first attempt at this, so the code is pretty terrible (7th tab if you want to see it).
This was all hand-coded over about less than an hour, so it's in no way perfect.

What is a TAS though?

A TAS, or Tool Assisted Speedrun, is when a human writes all the inputs for a computer to perform.
This can be used to create theoretical "perfect" speedruns of games.

Well, have fun messing around with this to finish the 3rd level and/or make this one faster.

a catch game

by Eeleemos

Cart #catchgame_elimos-0 | 2024-10-13 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

2

i gave myself 5 hours to do it, so, yeah, it's buggy as hell and becomes impossible to play at a certain point, but I really liked the creation process of this tool

thecountisenraged

by taxicomics

Cart #thecountisenraged-1 | 2024-10-15 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

3

The Count Is Enraged!

Bring back peace to the asteroid belt by slaying Count Jaspawd! This is the first level of that game.

Controls

ARROWS to Move
X or x to shoot
O or c to shoot torpedos

but...why?

I was sick this weekend and tried another game for my mission:
I'm trying to make one game of every genre, even the ones I could never get into. This is my weekend attempt at making a shmup, a genre I'm not really familiar with.
Do tell me about all the things you hate in it and I might even work on it some more!

Build a Jetpack

by Yoshiip

Cart #build_a_jetpack-1 | 2024-10-13 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

185

Build a Jetpack

First entry of my challenge to release a game every month for the next 100 months.

• Arrow keys to move
• When on your raft, press C to open the shop.
• Press X to confirm actions.

Website: https://aymeri100.fr/

Hi, tiny tiny bug for HTML5 export in PICO-8 where the colon is missing on line 986 by default. Just slightly unaesthetic when dragging over HTML5 files onto my site. Hopefully it's a quick fix!

iscdataempty_bc

by shiftalow

Cart #iscdataempty_bc-0 | 2024-10-12 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

1

Use this to check that the saved state of the game, such as mid-game progress, is the initial state (all 0).

print(iscdataempty() and 'cartdata empty' or 'cartdata found')

• Returns true if it is in the initial state.
• Returns false if there is any data contained in it.
• This function consumes 14 Token.

With this test cart, we will verify that entering CARTDATA with the mouse will cause it to return to its initial state.
You can reset CARTDATA in the pause menu.

Like a Moth to a Podiatrist

by Verbante

Cart #podiatrist-1 | 2024-10-12 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

7

Guide one (or more) moths to the podiatrist’s office.

Controls:

Left click: Turn on light
Right click: Turn off light
x: retry level

Inspired by the Moth Joke of Norm Macdonald

RIP Big Man Gone but not forgotten