Small update: speed pads! #pico8 #gamedev

It's been a while since I released Tad. Apart from bugfixes there have been some improvements to enemy AI. Mainly they are now moslty dangerous from the front.

You can play it for free on itch: https://doriencey.itch.io/tad

or the official pico8 website: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=155161

#pico8 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Added rotation for the ball based on the tangential speed on contact. This is not physically "accurate": some energy should be spent changing the ball's rotation speed, and there is no friction on the walls. But it feels better! #pico8 #gamedev

Working on a remake of Neko Puzzle in its most natural form: a #picotron desktop app. It also has a multiplayer mode (drop in anytime to a single shared game with endless 1-minute rounds) that will eventually be cross-playable with a #pico8 version.

#pixelart #pico8 #actionfigures #predator #aliens #mastoart #aseprite

Objects can have arbitrary shapes. While we could use sspr to draw them, we would have to fit everything on a 128x128 spritesheet (without compression). So I'm testing filling the polygons in using electricgryphon's trifill function (https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?uid=10844). #pico8 #gamedev

Added a "key" parameters to walls that makes them "drop". So now we have doors. #pico8 #gamedev

Starting to add a 3D extension to #flutton (pushed the first cut here https://github.com/Powersaurus/flutton/blob/main/flutton-3d.p8) Lot of copy-pasting from old projects as I try to find my "most basic, least opinionated raycaster implementation". Took one from a couple of years ago and couldn't resist playing around with the fillp+sprite stuff I learnt recently.

The dither does a lot when your textures are 8x8.

#pico8

I have just released the Sakamoto update for my Bullet in the Train score chaser. I added a completely random convenience store clerk. I also added a new score system for achieving higher scores. https://donswelt.itch.io/bullet-in-the-train/devlog/1487362/sakamoto-update #PICO8 #gameDev

Rollovers! And I got to learn to use object references in Tiled. Looks pretty powerful! #pico8 #gamedev

I've actually worked on a similar camera system for an unreleased platformer project to handle level transitions. It could be fun to have those in a pinball game. #pico8 #gamedev

A thrilling puzzle game. What a fun rethinking of Tetris: check out #RecycledBlocks by @Werxzy.

https://werxzy.itch.io/recycled-blocks

I love how abominations that you make will just come down to haunt you as a visual garbage, but it's still fair. I'd say it's even too lenient: you don't get crushed by blocks and it's pretty easy to lift stuff up to untie yourself, and there is no limit on destroying blocks.

#Pico8 #Pico8Games #FallingBlockJam

I'm preparing to release #picotron 0.3.0c which includes web player logins for LXO accounts ("Lexaloffle Online") ~ any #pico8 and #voxatron users automatically have LXO and can also post highscores etc.

More Info: https://www.lexaloffle.com/lxo.php

We want to have levels that are larger than the screen size, so I've added some camera movement to handle that. These are based on rectangular areas that are also defined in Tiled. #pico8 #gamedev

Reworked the way object are handled. Now that they can have multiple shapes attached to them, no more pointy flippers. Also: plunger and one-way walls! #pico8 #gamedev

Bit the bullet and jumped into #picocad2

#pico8 #lowpoly

#pico8 #picocad #lowpoly #retrogaming

Tweaked it a little more. I tried making the DPad as another mesh but it would be visible of the rotation when you shouldn't see it. So went back to flat textures for the buttons.

#lowpoly #picocad #pico8 #3d #retrogaming

Up until now I've been placing the different objects by editing the code directly. This is pretty tedious, so I wrote a custom exporter for Tiled to make editing the level easier. #pico8 #gamedev

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Prototype of a pinball game

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Screenshot of the map in Tiled

After adding spatial partitioning, the engine can handle way more objects and shapes. So now I can use a several line segments to approximate a Bézier curve. #pico8 #gamedev

After almost 1 year of snekburd being out, I've made a level editor that people can use to make or share their own levels!

Lexaloffle BBS (best): https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=156094
itchio : https://werxzy.itch.io/snekburd

#pico8 #itchio #gamedev #indiedev

The level editor is just about done. I'll try to release it tomorrow.

#pico8 #gamedev #indiedev

Slowly re-adding elements to the new engine. We now have the flippers back! #pico8 #gamedev

Changing the physics engine. My solution relies solely on segment intersection to detect collision, which makes handling corners troublesome. Plus circles are approximated using polygons, which I find a bit limiting. So instead I've decided to go with a classic impulse resolver. #pico8 #gamedev

#pico8 #pixelart #retrogaming #mastoart

It's starting to take shape #pico8 #gamedev

Got almost everything done, just REALLY crunching for tokens now.

#pico8 #gamedev #indiedev

After some tweaking around, it works! #pico8 #gamedev

RE: https://chaos.social/@carlton/116329256279704996

The #pico8 and #picotron community:

While Piero (https://pbes-studio.itch.io/) works on board design ideas, I'm building a basic pinball prototype. I wanted to reuse my segment intersection code from Celestial Serpent to build a physics engine. This is going well. #gamedev #pico8

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#pico8 #gamedev #indiedev

WIP for family accounts; #picotron (and later #pico8 & #voxatron) owners will be able to add up 5 family members to their account, each with their own username & icon. Also handy for testing multiplayer games during development.

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picotron login.p64 showing a list of family members to choose from

Are you PONDering what it would be like to be a tadpole? 🐸

Join your fellow pondmates and try to thrive in this reactive and alive nature, or click on chill mode and enjoy the atmosphere! It certainly was a challenge for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17heQRZKo6c

#indiegames #pico8 #retrogaming

Get Berry Brother and 15 other games for under 7 € 🚀

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3946490/SEBI_16/

#pico8 #ufo50 #indiedev

Still a WIP.

#pixelart #mastoart #gamedev #retrogames #pico8palette #pico8

They walk away to do cool guy stuff...

#pixelart #mastoart #pico8 #pico8palette #gamedev #makeart

A little game I'm working on. i'm new to this platform, so using the opportunity to figure out how it all works.

#pico8 #indiedev #indiegame

Been working on flutton - a tiny low-code framework for #pico8. My son had been drawing little Mario levels using the sprite and map editor and wanted to get things moving - so I made this. He's not ready for code yet, but sprite flags provide a fun and easy way for him to build little games.

I still have lots I'd like to add but it is useable and you can try it out with on pico-8-edu
https://github.com/Powersaurus/flutton

see also: space toy by jleyba92

#pico8 #picotron #pixelart

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