/dragon_demo_platformer

PICO-8 Fooling and Learning

Primary LanguageLua

DragonDemo

PICO-8 Fooling and Learning

Generally this repository will contain my learning and experiments about the fantasy console named PICO-8 and platformers.
Don't forget to check the people i mentioned in the Examples and credits part.

Dragondemo.p8

My first ever project, in which i try to implement a basic platformer, with movements, and collisions as usual. Still under development, and heavily WIP.
Currently i'm not concerned about token numbers, in this project i want to focus on readability.

Current Features

  • Tile based collision check
  • Global, configurable animator
  • Simple camera, that follows player
  • Fully dynamic UI prints. Just add the element you want to the ui collection in set_ui() and watch the magic happen.
  • Changeable player skins. Press x ingame to change your skin.
  • Pickups in the form of flowers. Also pickup sounds.
  • Proper health system. You start with three, indicated on the GUI, you lose one if you collide with enemies.
  • GUI containing health, and picked up flowers, and missing ones.
  • Two enemy AI. knight who just wanders, and turns if he can't go forward, and falls down on ledges. spearman who will guard the position, and won't fall of edges.
  • Proper game loop. Now you can lose, and win, and restart the game if one or the other happens.
  • Damage indication in the form of red flashing, invincibility frames, and health pickups in the form of the heart flowers.
  • The ability for the player to stomp enemies upon landing on them, and gaining upward momentum from them.
  • An OOP-like method for creating enemies, and animated grasses onto the game. create_enemy and create_grass
  • The ability to breath fireballs and fireflowers to replenish this ability.

Animator based on this cartridge
Collision based on this article

How to use this

  • Open PICO-8 and type in folder. The OS will open the cartridge directory, with your dedicated file browser.
  • Paste dragondemo.p8 into the directory.
  • Return to PICO-8 and press ctrl+r to reload.
  • Type load dragondemo.p8 and run.

Alternatively you can try it on my github page.

Examples and credits

You can find them under examples/. Credit to all owners. You can find their name and original cartridge name in the .p8 files. Thanks for them for sharing them.

Credit to all examples:

  • coin thief adventure! - dylan
  • advanced micro platformer - matthughson
  • pixel-perfect collision test - josh millard
  • simple-collision-function - Scathe

Thanks for:

  • enargy on Discord, for helping me with the collision system remake
  • tobiasvl on Discord, for putting up with my shit with lua ternaries

The whole family on Pico-8 Discord

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