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Pico-8 Games by Johan Peitz

There are so many Pico-8 creators out there. It’s amazing the quality of most of them. Pico-8 has carved out a niche in the gaming community by making it possible to create ‘simple’, but engaging fun games. In fact, there are individuals who have dedicated themselves to making Pico-8 games as a profession. Johan Peitz is...

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This issue is top quality! There are several articles that I’ll be going over for some time. The ‘Drawing Inverted Shapes’ which is about highlighting your character or another area on the screen is fantastic. It really makes the cart look professional / more engaging. I know the editor of the zine was going through burnout doing these every month. Hopefully stretching it out to quarterly will work for them because I truly appreciate the work and dedication that goes into drafting the issues.

A link to the the zine.

Here’s the Content Listing:

  • Cover Art by Retronator
  • Game Dev Extras - NerdyTeachers
  • Free Music Jam - Packbat & Bikibird
  • New Community Stars - NerdyTeachers
  • PICO-8 Update 0.2.6
  • Drawing Inverted Shapes - Nerdy Teachers
  • Waveform Instruments - luchak
  • Wave Designer - luchak
  • Level Edit and Load - Jack Raymond (Gravitoid)
  • Rapid Reviews - New Release Recommendations
  • Featured Game Review: Oblivion Eve - Achie
  • Oblivion Eve’s Map Transition Animations - SmartAlloc
  • PICO-8 Custom Editors - Werxzy
  • Orb of Aeternum: New Strategy Game Review - Nerdy Teachers
  • A Brief History of War Gaming - KumaKhan22
  • 3k Shmup Day - Achie, Lokistriker, Werxzy
  • Picotron 0.1 - Nerdy Teachers
  • Pixel Art Gallery - Retronator
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I’d like to help! I’m hoping to add posts to this group and hopefully make it a Pico-8 place people find useful. I’d be happy to be a moderator.

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LOL, thanks! And now with Picotron out maybe there’ll be even more interest.

What quality PLA filament brand have you standardized on?

Typically I would just buy whatever brand had the cheapest white color PLA (I like to paint my print) and quality wasn’t always top of mind. Now I have several prints that I want to do in all kids of different colors and quality matters. Given the new color and quality requirements, it no longer makes sense to get the...

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I’m a huge fan of Overture 3D matte PLA. It’s inexpensive, and just prints really well with few problems.

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Upvote for Overture, my favorite.

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I decided there was a reason it’s called a community expedition. And that’s because somebody else figures out where the damn things are and then the rest of the community goes there to get the reward. That’s what I wound up doing for like four of them.

Loosing Standing, Are My Starter Freighter Crew Pirates At Heart?

Just started the new community expedition, so first real taste of the Echoes update. I think my starter freighter crew are engaging in some light piracy on the side. My standing with the main system race keeps ticking down every so often, and I gain rep with the Outlaws faction. At least if they are going to go rogue and loot...

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The same thing is happening to me! I’m like -50 with the Vy’keen! Just standing in the station and my reputation just started dropping.

What's the most annoying Costco behavior you experience regularly?

I do not understand why people aren’t satisfied with the uppermost (open) case of whatever when there’s a large stack (and, let’s face it–everything is stacked at Costco). I watch them struggle to lift 4 or 5 cases so they can pick one box of raisins from the 5th level down. I get if there was one left on top that was...

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I’ll put an item or two in the cart right off the bat, and people are less likely to take it. Eventually I’ll put the items back.

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Dripping coffee onto a metallic ball and getting a C&D notice via social media. Pretty entertaining.

Where Do You Sit in the Movie Theater?

It seems everyone has a different sitting preference at the movies. I want the ultimate experience: the screen completely filling my vision, like I’m in the movie. Usually the third or fourth row. My wife complains we’re too close. Then I see people way in the back and it must be like watching TV the screen is so small. I...

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Yeah, I’m not going to play hardcore because at some point I don’t want to destroy my computer and monitors when I smash them.

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I believe!

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I have to believe they’ll put out a patch soon to make it fun again. Despite what everyone else seems to think I think overall it’s a good fun game (or at least it was before 1.1.0).

damnspot, to diablo

@diablo Hope everyone is enjoying queuing for the new season!

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I got in immediately at the start. Played for about four hours with very few problems. Enjoyed my time.

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I like it. I would very much enjoy going there every morning to make my pot of coffee. Looks clean, efficient, and visually appealing.

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I only used to use it several hours a day. But not once since the blackout.

Besides Teddit, which is being severely limited by the API debacle and has instances shutting down, what Reddit front-ends still work? (tedd.it)

In reading the rules and pinned posts, it doesn’t seem to me that my question is out of line with the intention of the community. However, if I am mistaken, please remove the post and accept my sincere apologies....

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The developer of Relay for Reddit is working on optimizing the API usage of the app. I’m not using it (still boycotting Reddit), but I see there are android updates every few days.

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Either Reynold’s Eversion or Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time.

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I haven’t done a D3 season in many years. I remember that at least at one point you could earn / find a pet you could keep from then on for all your characters. You think they’ll do something like this again?

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I’m hoping for Isabel J Kim on the best new writer. I’ve enjoyed many of her stories in Clarkesworld.

Yes, definitely hoping for the Children of Time series to win. I’m finishing up the first and looking forward to the next two.

The only novel in the finalists that I’ve read is Scalzi’s. It’s a fun read, but yeah, it’s not fantastic science fiction.

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Wow, how did you find a three week old post? :)

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