[PICO-8] Coffee Roguelike

[Snektron]

looks cool i should implement my own maze generation algorithm on pico. you can actually find it at http://quantuminfinity.space/maze/

[Duke "Tape" Eiyeron]

Your? It just looks like a simple backtracker algorithm! I coded this on pico in 10 minutes and was one of the first C experiments I did! Well, it's the most effective algorithm as you're sure that the whole zone will be dug.

EDIT : Yup, you used the backtracker method. Simple and effective.

[Snektron]

Yeah i read up on maze algorithms when i created this, but i don't think its backtracking exactly
since it doesnt save the places it can pop back to, it just loops though the grid. I guess it's not so different though...
At the time i was really new to coding, one of my first things (first made it in lua though)

[CKH4]

So is it canvas cumred?
Also how many lines for the maze generation in pico 8 eiyeron?

[Duke "Tape" Eiyeron]

123 atm but I should clean the code and make it more concise.

[CKH4]

Nice! Sounds like its pretty simple but the generation was  pretty good in my opinion.

Edit. Could we maybe get another gif of generation?

[Duke "Tape" Eiyeron]

Sure, let me first change the way the digger decides to chose the tile to dig from a random until I find a solution to "choose a way from a list I dynamically change" to avoid a case where it could loop forever in a very bad (yet possible) luck.

EDIT : And I still have to find out why sometimes the corridor doesn't do all the map. Some room configurations blocks me from having a full corridor and I wonder how will I be able to manage the room connection to the corridor(s?).

[CKH4]

So with that bug would it generate in a loop forever or would it generate a loop in the map?

[Duke "Tape" Eiyeron]

It's not a bug, but having a repeat...random...until could be blocked forever because the Random Number God decided to hate you this time

EDIT : and here are some improvments : I found out how I could detect the cul-de-sacs, removed a big part of the frame flip (it'll only wait for one flip between each room and corridor dig  step) and added some colors for fun.

[CKH4]

Lol random number gods. The new generation looks really nice.

[Snektron]

i once got send out of class for disassembling randomly generated z80 asm :3

[Dream of Omnimaga]

So would scrolling be fast enough to be playable?

[Duke "Tape" Eiyeron]

Suure, the map will be managed by Pico itself, I'm just prototyping something out of the game (but still relevant) at the moment.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Cool to hear. I wish that a game like First Fantasy: Mana Force was possible in PICO-8. It would have to be dumbed down so that for example magic spells are identical but different colors like Final Fantasy 1 for the NES. Does that language support save files so you can record your highscores or progress?

[Duke "Tape" Eiyeron]

Not yet. You could get around by saving on the fly the cart but the VM doesn't support extern file loading/writing yet.