Powersaurus

Powersaurus, 8 days ago to random

ALL CONSUMING quick post mortem thread

Went well:

• Nice to ship something! Reinforced the value of prototyping, gameplay fell out of a few small pieces I put in place due to the constraints
• Procgen textures - this was unsurprisingly the first thing I did, and it stuck
• Lot of happy accidents - eating the walls, health moving with the player, spreading the enemies out to make it appear like they're coming in waves
• Worked a tiny "theme" into 500 chars #tweettweetjam #pico8 1/3

Video of my tweet tweet jam game ALL CONSUMING - this time the guy escapes the monsters and the cave

Powersaurus, 10 days ago to random

I made an infinite 10 second horror game for #tweettweetjam !

You can play it on Itch at https://powersaurus.itch.io/all-consuming or #pico-8 edu at https://www.pico-8-edu.com/?c=AHB4YQH0AWxPsH5z8QYHRQ9wd5U9QtS8QHh6dVPwAEVwe3xUllwVBG3yFq8ReySzziUH9We1SXXMY7QX3fQWTRgd9hjRxBskYR48wTusnfMKXTYxUe2F03s7bXFcutO6dCUJHiIdzF0RRNlE18zdv-ECIwMDM_F1UxN7Xs9K54zLtuKJzEbpxsLSaPAGRfAU4VuMTDaLe0OLG8vFzEJQDrWjZpszw4Fmm3kIeQKVgPDQNEnLDcvU9ZFZMCEWPGsGsfCr6FZGxp9iMC0XXmI5ioRMFwMhg4FYqiQuREreQrGgunNoohvqujv7pcl8aCzNe7PuRElTdkIF4kZ7qkZuGNpJ3mKgTcULgvTaKx_mCLOJ_fDWqnTRlKBJ3RU7eVOcOzoyH09sKR5sTLzMW2w1ZwTlxphW0JiL7hU-KS5YPGQjUVrIjDRRLsyu9zIKw5G9KksImSRSIqHjVi4oV__4pbjkkt0TJgfWp812BA==&g=w-w-w-w1HQHw-w2Xw-w3Xw-w2HQH

Super late - I wanted to post-mortem right away, but need sleep.

A video of top down 2D game where a character waiting for monsters to free them from a cave system as the monsters eat the walls, and then escaping before the monsters get them.

Powersaurus, 12 days ago to random

495 characters... need a win screen still. Adding health floating with the character was a happy accident.

#Tweettweetjam #pico8

Short video of a cave escape game where a tiny guy is eaten by hungry cave monsters

Powersaurus, 13 days ago to random

Wasn't sure I would have time for #Tweettweetjam but here I am, 455 characters in.

I was over budget with monster map collisions (probably wouldn't be now!), so the "solution" was "what if the monsters are eating the level?" Still need to add win/lose conditions.

#pico8

A video of a game where a tiny little guy escapes from a cave, being chased by big eye monsters, who are eating the cave.

Powersaurus, 1 month ago to random

y'know what really validates a decision to cancel a sub to an anti-virus software solution?

The advertising popups before you cancel it, then the sales rep desperately trying to keep you onboard as you cancel it (3 upsells so far), the dead phone number on the "cancel subscription page", the darkpatterns in the cancellation flow that ultimately lead you to the sales rep.....

Powersaurus, 2 months ago to random

Spent this week making a little Worms/Scorched Earth terrain demo. Tried making one of these with my first ever #pico8 project and ran into massive performance issues due to using pset.

This uses tline and a 2D array of vertical slices. Destroying the terrain earth shrinks a slice, or cuts/slices it into two. Perf is good, as terrain is destroyed, there are more slices, but less to draw! Second gif shows this in action.

Code/cart is here https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=140579

2D scene showing a cross section of a hill being gradually carved out like the games Worms of Scorched Earth
Terrain being carved again, but the data structure is illustrated by showing each slice as a different colour, and showing new slices being created as the terrain is modified.

zep, 2 months ago to random

#pico8 0.2.6b is out now on lexaloffle / Humble / itch / https://www.pico-8-edu.com

🌟 Waveform Instruments 🌟 Custom Music Scale Snapping 🌟 High Memory Video Mapping 🌟 Handheld Improvements 🌟 Inside-out Circles!

Blog Post: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=140421

Animation of moving down a colourful tunnel, chasing a flying logo "PICO-8 0.2.6"

Powersaurus, 2 months ago to random

Moody raycaster lighting. A lone light shows off the dithered shading well.

Made possible by finally allowing the editor to scroll so I can get past the first 16x16 tiles of the map. That doesn't screenshot well though!

#pico8

A screenshot of a raycaster environment, and the same light from the previous picture, but now from the perspective of the dark corridor.

Powersaurus, 3 months ago to random

bok BOKKKKKKK #pico8

A floating or bouncing chicken head in a 3d raycaster environment. In the background, cow and pig heads are floating/bouncing

Powersaurus, 3 months ago to random

Increasing levels of bizarreness.

A 3D raycaster environment inhabited by floating cat heads, with a floating chicken head on a raised platform
A 3D raycaster environment inhabited by strangely coloured floating chicken and cat heads
A 3D raycaster environment, with some mostly transparent floating cat heads. Only the eyes are visible. This is due to a graphical glitch

Powersaurus, 5 months ago to random

Spelunking for beginners.

Easy to motivate myself into putting some effort into my editor when I can start to make more complex map geometry like this fullbright tiny cave.

Hard work to get going, but fun to quickly iterate on the editor as I find what works (ripping off the BUILD editor shortcuts from distant partial memory)

#pico8

Video of walking through a raycaster environment and dropping down into a small cave. Shows the current possible geometry - caves achieved by using adjacent tiles of greatly different heights to approximate walls and a ceiling

Powersaurus, 5 months ago to random

Alrighty, I feel like this at least proves the potential of the style I had wondered if it were possible.

Not necessarily a project I have a clear idea of how it's going to turn into a game, but I have a few ideas. Lends itself to generating maps (subway/metro stations maybe). Anything to not have to work on an editor! /me goes off to work on the editor.

Great thumbnail there, the video is better.

#pico8

Video showing walking through bright lit areas and dark areas of a raycaster environment showing the contrast between the two.

Powersaurus, 5 months ago to random

Continuing experiments in raycaster lighting. Using the raycaster code to light the scene is not an ideal mix. Currently casting 160 rays per light (I only have two) and increasing the light value of each tile traversed. Other numbers of rays (more, less) have left dark holes, which is jarring.

Probably need to use a simpler move-in-a-line method for this. Also need to tweak the radius of the light - it's too bland in the centre at the moment. Promising start though.

#pico8

Video of raycaster environment showing an area lit by a light, and how surfaces are darker further away from the lightsource

gigabates, 5 months ago to demoscene

Here's my result from tonight's FieldFX jam. #tic80 #ByteJam #demoscene

Animation of a rotating 3d cityscape on the TIC-80 fantasy console.

Powersaurus, 5 months ago to random

Precomputing the dithered colours is faster than doing it at drawtime, who knew!? Now I have 16 colour ramps for light-dark for any colour picked as a wall colour.

Also playing round with actually editing the map and seeing what sort of wall patterns could be created.

#pico8

Video of walking round a 3d raycaster environment to demonstrate different wall colours and a larger colour ramp used to do distance based shading.

Powersaurus, 5 months ago to random

Can you base an entire project around a fill pattern? I'm trying. Started using fillp(0xa5a5) (chequerboard pattern) in Moon Miner 2580 as I only had three colour ramps for shading. Now seeing how many colours it can approximate through dithering.

Limited in that I'm stuck using block colours, but I like the idea of being able to use "more than 16 colours" when picking colours for different blocks or floors for the level. Compensates for no surface textures.

#pico8

fsouchu, 5 months ago to gamedev French

Demi Daggers post launch fixes online!
Thanks for the feedback & bug reports!
Better shotgun, mouse feedback and jump (+ other fixes).

Go play on:
https://freds72.itch.io/demi-daggers
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/905300
(also compatible with Pico8 Splore)

#gamedev #indiedev #pico8 #itch_io @ridgek

video/mp4

Powersaurus, 6 months ago to random

Dithertown #pico8

Screenshot of a raycaster environment showcasing different height ceilings in an indoor area.

zep, 6 months ago to random

WIP scale snapping for #pico8 0.2.6

pico-8 sfx editor with a keyboard interface that has toggleable notes to specify which notes to snap to

Powersaurus, 6 months ago to random

Jumping around to test variable height floors.

Probably time to make an editor, or suck it up and check out Tiled. I pushed a 1-layer tilemap for Caped Feline Arena further than was sensible, or easy to work with. Each map cell feasibly now has floor + ceiling height, floor + ceiling colour, inside/outside flag, lo/hi wall colours, flags for things like diagonal walls, and objects. Some of this is a wishlist!

#pico8

Video of moving round a raycaster environment, showing different height floors and jumping features.

Powersaurus, 7 months ago to random

Clipping for doorways/walls/different-height-floors is working now. At the equivalent point of "tests pass", now need major tidyup.

#pico8

Jumping in a raycaster 3d environment to demonstrate working clipping or different pieces of scenery obscuring others..

Powersaurus, 7 months ago to random

Broken graphics / future album cover

Powersaurus, 7 months ago to random

I'm really enjoying playing Golf 7 by sp0nska on the #pico8 bbs. It's a mode 7 style golf game and it works really well (the visuals really make the game). The controls are nicely balanced for a fun crazy/mini-golf game. Definitely worth checking out!

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=135813#p