Can you escape...
About
NIN is an stylized action-platformer I have been working on for the past 3 months. The game has 32 screens and takes around 30-40 minutes to complete. I had a lot of fun making this game over the past few months (although trying to keep within the token limit was very challenging towards the end). It has been a very rewarding and experience using pico 8 and pushing myself to see what I can create with it.
Gameplay
The goal of the game is to escape the lab you are trapped in as quickly as possible. The game features challenging platforming and blood filled action. The player is equipped with a sword and a ground pound, both of which can be used to help tackle obstacles in your way. There are also extra challenging coins to collect along the way which unlock a secret if you collect them all...
Controls
⬅️➡️ to move
⬇️ to ground pound
❎ to jump
🅾️ to attack
Extra
There are also extra challenges to complete for secret palette swaps and a timer option for anyone who wants to try and beat the game as quickly as possible. I managed to narrow my time down to just over four minutes but that is definitely beatable.
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While looking at an empty project in the built-in pico-8, I thought about the default map/sprite options available without extra code.
There are the two classic approaches :
1) use the shared map/sprite area for sprites.
We get 256 tiles with 8bit flags, and a map 2 screens tall and 8 screens wide.
2) use the shared area for map.
We get 128 tiles, and a 4 screen tall and 8 screens wide map.
We can also use a hybrid of the two, where the bottom of the shared space is used for sprites, while keeping the map rectangular...
Option 1 is efficient, IE every bit counts, while option 2 is pretty wasteful :
in the map, every tile index is in the 0-127 range, but still uses one byte. That's 20% of the map data forced to be zero.
Flags for tiles 128-255 are also unused...
What if these unused spaces had had significance ?
For example, the tiles 128-255 could have been a horizontal mirrors of the tiles 0-127.
Maybe instead, two of the flags of each tile in the 128-255 range could be used as horizontal and vertical mirror ? That would save a few tiles, but in tile sets, you often have the 4 versions (normal, HFLIP VFLIP H&VFLIP), or even eight if 90° rotation is also needed.
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Gungame is about a red man (for some reason) shooting infected enemies and surviving waves of attacks while choosing upgrades wisely to not mess it up
Controls
arrow keys to move around and X to shoot or pick up upgrade
you can shoot backwards if you hold left then right, make use of it before i patch it
Rules
infinite mode begins after wave 3
stock up on ammo and any speed boosters because enemies become more and more aggressive in infinite mode
you can farm ammo if you keep a fat zombies at the end of the round, also use it before i patch it
Grenades don't work yet so do NOT get it when you see it unless you want to skip an upgrade round
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Controls
- Use the up and down arrows to move forward and backward.
- Use the left and right arrows to change the direction of your tank.
- Press the Z to fire a shell.
- Hold the X and use the left and right arrows to rotate the turret.
About this game
- This is a game where you control a tank and destroy turrets that appear on the perimeter of the field.
- The game is inspired by the electromechanical arcade game ATTACK II (SEGA/1971).
- The development version of this game was showcased at Game Dungeon 7.
- It consists of 7 stages.
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Step into a warm, inviting world with POUCHMATE, a charming interactive experience designed to feel like having a little friend always by your side.
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I am uploading this very early antetris alpha now before anything else, because I can at least refer back to this if anything happens regarding this cart, like if I lose all my hard work.
This is supposed to be a full fledged remake of this old game right here, with a few new things hopefully added in.
(Game in question:)
Things that still need to be done:
- I need to have the blocks to come down over the screen in a way so the colored blocks in the spritesheet come down arranged in tetromino fashion, and the dark grey blocks to be randomly peppered in as well in no particular shape or arrangement.
See sprites here:
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Hello everyone! This is my first small project for PICO-8 in the puzzle platformer genre. I hope you will like it!
Controls
Use the ⬅️ and ➡️ keys to move the character
To jump, use the button❎
In case of defeat, use the keyboard shortcut ⬇️ and 🅾️ to restart
Rules
The goal of the game is to complete all the levels and score as many points as possible.
To complete the level, you need to reach the flag hidden behind the obstacles. Collect the keys on the level to destroy the obstacles.
To score points, collect coins on the level, open chests and try to save time.
Assets of other authors
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Well here's a weird little tools project I spent a few evenings on-- a way to write simple short PICO8 programs on my phone while on the go:
Sometimes I find myself with my phone in a long line, at the DMV, on a train or plane-- I can read news, doomscroll, or play games-- but wouldn't it be neat if I could create little games/animations? I've seen past brainstorms about development on mobile-- the main suggestions seemed to be to attach a bluetooth keyboard+mouse and use Education Edition, or set up a VPN + remote desktop connection to PICO8 running on a home machine, neither of which is as convenient for brief impulsive doodling. But I realized-- if I can understand the PICO8 @URL format used by Education Edition, perhaps I could generate that from code I write on my phone...
A few evenings of poking around led me to this strange hack: a spreadsheet-as-IDE/wrapper. This gives me a way to write code in an existing app on my phone with a virtual keyboard, with copy/paste, undo, cloud sync, and all those quality of life features "for free", and then use a few formulas in the spreadsheet to translate the code into a b64-encoded URL at https://pico-8-edu.com/ that I can run. The development is far inferior to the real PICO8 environment in terms of features, iteration speed, and so on, but I've found it fun creating little animations with thumb typing in 20 minutes of downtime here and there, so I figured I'd share it.
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Are there config files for the editors?
So if I wanted to say, change the tab size or key-bindings in the code-editor.
if not, does anyone know where I could start poking around?
update: i did find /system/apps/code.p64 which looks promising. any other info is welcome
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Work in progress, press X to "play".
Next to-do: rework collision with the palette to remove spooky action at a distance and generally make it behave.
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You’re Arlo, a farmer racing to save your family’s canola farm from bankruptcy. With olive oil dominating the market, canola prices have crashed. Grow, harvest, and sell canola to pay off your loan before the bank takes the farm. Can you bring Haims Ridge Farm back to life?
Controls
Move - arrow keys ➡️⬆️⬇️⬅️
Switch Tool - Z or C or N [O button]
Interact - X or V or M [X button]
Rules/Gameplay
- Grow and harvest canola, then deliver it to the silos to earn money.
- Use your earnings to buy upgrades at the barn.
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A small, arcade style game I've made mostly during my college lectures.
You can use a bomb using the "x" button.
There are some more surprises waiting at lower depths.
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I don't know if its intended or not, but when I enable has_frame=false and do
windows = fetch("/ram/shared/windows.pod") then its not there. Windows that have no frame don't show up there and I can't find the place that handles which windows are added there. thanks in advance
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YinYang
- 30 yinyang puzzles
Rules
- all spaces be filled
- some spaces are pinned with balls that cannot be changed
- all dark balls connected orthogonally in single group
- all light balls connected orthogonally in single group
- no 2x2 group of the same color allowed
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It seems that widgets will not load if /appdata/system/startup.lua does not exist.
I believe this is a new issue that appears in version 0.2.0. I cannot confirm this, but...
The relevant code is from line 203 of /system/startup.lua.
Additionally, it seems that simply creating startup.lua in /appdata/system, even without any content, resolves the issue.
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Birds!
This is birds, a small project I made when I was bored.
When playing, birds will spawn in time to the music, but after a while you can just click to spawn them.
And... that's pretty much all.
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Mulibox
Mechanism
This game includes seven types of boxes, and you must push the corresponding box to the target, ensuring no other boxes remain to win.
Control
Play it now!
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