This is my first finished game! Please let me know what your thoughts are for the code, how it plays, etc.
There are quite a few things I wanted to do, but couldn't because of time constraints from the GameJam itself, so I shall be creating newer versions of this cart until it becomes a completely different game, in theme and in gameplay.
I have referenced code written by other users, the links to which are in the cart itself!
DESCRIPTION POSTED IN THE SUBMISSION BELOW:
VIOLATE OSHA RULES BY BASHING BOTS!!!
BIGMODE GAMEJAM 2025 - THEME: POWER
So I made this over the course of 9-ish days and I'm quite proud! You need the below to play kindof, BUT you can just mash your way to win tbh.
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Cave Miner
Dig deep, collect gold, and make every move count.
Each cave is another mystery, procedurally generated with no end in sight. Only your stamina limits how far you can go.
How deep can you dig before running out of energy?
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This is a kind of tribute to one of my favorite games for their 45th anniversary. There's still work to do, but it's playable.
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Sometimes it'd be nice to mute the music in a game you downloaded from the BBS, but not mute the sound effects. Maybe their music isn't to your taste, maybe you've played it way too much and now you want to listen to your own music instead; there are plenty of reasons.
One easy trick is just typing music=min to kill the music completely. If you'd rather be able to toggle the music on and off, here's a quick snippet:
-- pancelor music toggle v3 -- https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=146963 _music_fn=music function music(...) if _music_muted then _music_last=... --save 1st arg else _music_fn(...) end end menuitem(5,"♪music",function() _music_muted=not _music_muted if _music_muted then _music_fn(-1,500) menuitem(nil,"…music") else _music_fn(_music_last) menuitem(nil,"♪music") end return true end) |
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I've just released Geo2D, a Lua library with 100's of functions for 2D computational geometry. The repo also includes a picotron compatible version: https://github.com/eigenbom/lua-geo2d. This cart demonstrates some of the features, like closest point, aabb operations, polygon triangulation, etc. Enjoy!
(In browser press 'x' to skip to next demo, or 'z' to reseed the current demo.)
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I'm on v0.1.1d and noticed this program doesn't draw anything. circfill otoh seems to work okay without a color param.
function _draw() cls(0) color(7) circ(200, 100, 50) end |
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Made for Bigmode gamejam:
This is my first game jam and first time releasing a video game, and this game is about being king of electrical kingdom where you must balance the amount of electricty and poltical power you have. If either go to zero then you lose.
This is my first game jam and first time releasing a video game, and this game is about being king of electrical kingdom where you must balance the amount of electricty and poltical power you have. If either go to zero then you lose.
Please leave a comment if you enjoy, and leave any feedback on bugs or additional features...
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Features undulating rainbow bobs, and per-scanline palette changes. Bobs use color indices 0-31 which are Picotron's default colors for all 4 palettes. The background uses indices 32-63 on all 4 palettes randomly set at start and when you hit a button, and the scanline table is reset every frame to oscillate the sections rendering each palette. 160 colors on screen! Feel free to steal utility functions, I had fun figuring out the bit packing for setting up the scanline table correctly.
I'd love it if some of you far better coders helped me make this demo cooler.
https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php?page=submit&respond_to=rainbow_bobs-0
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About
This is my very first coding project ever. I decided to go with PICO-8 to learn to code. It's a silly little anti-game, but I'm proud of it because I set manageable goals for learning the very basic principles of coding, and managed to actually make something complete in just a few days.
Many thanks to @ptoing for the help and assistance with making the sprites.
Instructions
Watch attentively until it hits the corner. Then press the instructed input to gain ◆!
❎ to view credits
🅾️ to toggle sound
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A special toad with a love for precious metals embarks on a dungeon adventure, collecting gems along the way.
The more gems the toad gathers, the stronger it becomes, allowing it to reach new areas.
Help the toad overcome various obstacles and explore deeper into the dungeon!
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I made a bunch of projects about 2 years ago. I used VSCode to do the development as I struggle to read the pico font.
I generally made my projects like this:
https://github.com/gcoulby/pico-8-reusable-actor
My p8 files normally looked like this:
cartdata("gcou_domination")
#include _debug.lua
#include _globals.lua
#include _utils.lua
#include splash.lua
#include draw_functions.lua
#include game_logic.lua
#include main_menu.lua
#include main.lua |
Then I just do all my work in lua files.
Fast forward to now, I am trying to teach my friend Pico and I opened my old projects and there is just endless errors, the pico extensions no longer seem to work on Lua files, the lua language server seems to be a LOT stricter with linting.
I get all of these types of errors (some of them are actual issues, which pico doesn't seem to mind about others are Lua rules that intentionally overrided by pico (e.g., += -= etc)
Unexpected symbol +=. [ [size=16][color=#ffaabb] [ Continue Reading.. ] [/color][/size] ](/bbs/?pid=161502#p) |
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up
(300 chars)
r,c,🐱,🅾️,✽,♥,◆,★=rnd,cos,camera,128,-64,32,.25,{}for i=1,99do ★[i]={x=r(🅾️),y=r(🅾️),z=r(3)}end::_::cls()⧗=t()🐱()for v in all(★)do
pset(v.x,v.y,7)v.y+=v.z
if(v.y>🅾️)v.y=0v.x=r(🅾️)end
🐱(✽,✽)for y=✽,-✽ do
a=⧗/5+y/10^3n=a%◆+.125for i=-1,0 do
rect(c(n)*♥,y,c(n+◆*sgn(i))*♥+.5,y,(a*4-i)%7+8)end
end
flip()goto _
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You're on a spaceship, and you need to keep it running.
Charge the light and don't let them burst, as the entire spaceship is powered by them.
This is a simple timekiller arcade game
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Plotline
You are a blob, and you are beneath a tower in an underground cave. One day, the water streambed in your cave dries out, and you find a gallery that leads to the tower. At the top of the tower lies the fabled golden elixir, which is said that one drink of its liquid will grant one wish - to restore your streambed. (Or you could wish for more wishes.)
Monsters and other dangers protect the elixir, and you must get past nine floors to get to it.
Controls
Use the arrow keys to move one space. Bump into pots to break them, and sometimes get an item. Bump into chests to open them, and if it is a small chest, you will get a food item or a throwable one. If it is a large chest, you'll get a weapon or armor. Items get better the more you progress through floors.
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Intro
A strategic card battler where you summon demons to defeat increasingly powerful opponents. Build your deck, discover synergies, and master the art of demonic summoning!
Features
- Strategic deck building and card synergies
- 52 unique demons to discover and collect
- Demons come in one of four types - ghosts, objects, elementals and beasts - each which has certain abilities which all demons of that kind share
- 38 demons have unique abilities
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Hello everyone. It was quite a long time since my last post (over 3 years!), isn't it? Anyways, I think that I plan on getting back to PICO-8 and try to make a game. Again. I already have an idea in my mind what I will make so it would be pretty much impressive, especially after so much stuff that was discovered and added in this amazing fantasy console.
Also Picotron looks really interesting even at such early state. Though, I currently have neither money (not that I'm broke, just I barely became 18 and don't have too much time and energy even for part-time) and patience (few last years kinda damaged my mental health, I think) and time (because I have final exams to prepare for and pass, since I want to go to university) to afford it.
Also I want to change my PFP from Mortis to something else. And maybe should try to make a REAL game for Steam release.
Oh, and my English got majorly improved as well since then!
Anyways, thanks for reading.
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