Soooo… my game now has all the bare minimum features in place:
Lifebar Damage system Oxygen mechanic Speedrunning timer A clear goal
Basic graphics and a rough level layout are there too.

Now it’s time to sprinkle in some extra spice - like enemies, sound, music, highscore saving… and whatever else I can squeeze in before I pass out

The main HOOK for my upcoming metroidvania

Core mechanics? Check.
Controls? Working (somehow).
Now on to adding actual game stuff - collectables, enemies, UI, highscores…
And then the part where I pretend polish is just a setting in the engine. #LD57 #gamedev #pico8

The updated version of Combat Chopper with the new ground rendering is here: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=148243
#pico8

My nine-year-old daughter and I have been playing around with our Pico-8++ project that I'm calling Nano-9. Tonight I tried using it as a library to see what it looks like with an old TV post processing effect, something you can't do with Pico-8.

https://github.com/shanecelis/nano-9 #pico8 #gamedev #bevyengine

So I somehow managed to cram the ground rendering routine into Combat Chopper.
Textures are very much work in progress.
#pico8

Work In Progress theme for my #pico8 tetris game. I'll have to try and capture at 60fps as I'm using a checkboard flicker effect on the background to give a translucent effect and it looks much cleaner than this gif. The flicker is jarring on large monitors but nice on a small handheld screen, though there will be the option to toggle it off in options.

A lot of work has gone on under the hood to clean up code and try to get tokens in a better place. Hopefully I can add a few more themes!

Who created a map for the inside of a whale??

Some CPU player cheat-spying on #picocraft, he seems well organized, peasants are gathering wood, building barracks and some troop are preparing. Soon... You'll see if he's up to the job next week ! Is this an announce ? YES !
As usual, #pico8 pixels are from x.com/@brullov_art

Playing the new hot #pico8 #shmup V-Impact live on stream!
https://www.twitch.tv/lazydevs

Finally got all of the music done for the snakebird demake. All that's really left is polishing the final graphics and testing the current set of levels (hopefully not needing to make too many changes to them, there's already been extensive testing).

Very likely to release sometime this month.

Bounce away!

(I'm happy that the character cannot be hidden behind the ui)

distraction of the day: in #pico8, which is faster?

`for i=1,#t do x=t[i] ... end`
`for i,x in ipairs(t) do ... end`

answer: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=148143

Rusty shovel unlocked!
A metroidvania without jumping

I wrapped up the #pico8 line drawing routine I've been using for various projects as a drop-in replacement for tline.
It's here, if anyone wants to play with it:
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=148149

First tiny #picotron toy: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/cart_info.php?cid=dahototiso-0

Enjoying:
- having a mouse
- zero environment setup
- init/update/draw fundamentals
- quite a bit more space to breathe than #pico8

Not enjoying:
- no debugger (or even a traditional console? maybe i'm missing this)
- learning lua

A new adventure begins!