PICO-8 : Fantasy console

Yuki · May 23, 2015, 06:26:46 PM

Quote from: Strontium on May 23, 2015, 04:36:43 AM
I lost my Lexaloffle acc. so I can't use PICO-8 anymore

Yep, you should contact Lexaloffle.

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on May 23, 2015, 06:15:31 AM
@Juju does that script return the actual code? I don't know PHP that much.

Yes, give the .p8.png file as input and it spits out the Lua code.

Quote from: Cumred_Snektron on May 23, 2015, 09:57:51 AM
Also would it be possible to have more than 16k lua code by encoding it into the sprites, map, sound and music areas and just copying it somewhere else on runtime?
Guess not since the lua ram is not accessible :/

Guess not. 15k is quite a lot, though. It's the point of PICO-8, though, making stuff with such limitations.

Dream of Omnimaga · May 23, 2015, 08:37:58 PM

I guess if someone was to make a linear RPG, he could just split his game into multiple cartridges and require the user to enter a password to continue to the next cartridge, where the password would be given at the end of the first chapter and so on. But then people could just share the password with everyone and the player would lose his stats.

I'm curious about a Supersonic Ball style game, though.

Siapran · May 23, 2015, 08:43:24 PM

I did a thing.
http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2015

also, noticed that the TID is 2k15 :D

Dream of Omnimaga · May 23, 2015, 08:46:01 PM

Ooh I like it. Did you also make the music?

Siapran · May 23, 2015, 08:47:50 PM

nope that was just the music of a demo cart

Dream of Omnimaga · May 23, 2015, 08:51:00 PM

Aaah ok thanks for the info. I really need to try to make a song in PICO-8 (most likely a cover of one of my songs). I didn't do many chiptune songs in the past (both of the ones I made were on the Game Boy Color with Pocket Music)

Strontium · May 24, 2015, 04:30:22 AM

All the pastebin links are expired.

Dream of Omnimaga · May 24, 2015, 05:45:07 AM

Yeah it might have been a limited offer from him or maybe he set the pastebins to expire by accident.

Snektron · May 24, 2015, 09:35:13 AM

Yeah he probably doesn't want people to find free codes when it's released

Dream of Omnimaga · May 25, 2015, 07:20:55 AM

By then I bet that most codes will not work anymore anyway since they'll have been used already. But it depends of how popular PICO-8 is and how many people got a copy already. If it didn't get many downloads, then if he wants to make some money from it then I guess it's a good move to remove the codes.

Also to support him, something I thought is that if someone decides to make a third-party PICO-8 web editor, then I think the editor should check your computer for a valid copy of PICO-8 (after asking permission, of course), if it's possible to do that. That way such third-party editor would be mostly for developer convenience. That's unless of course the author doesn't mind such tool.

Snektron · May 25, 2015, 08:26:10 AM

Maybe lexaloffle can make some sort of authentication api. That would be best so you can save cardridges under your name too

Dream of Omnimaga · May 27, 2015, 09:27:55 PM

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Quote from: Cumred_Snektron on May 25, 2015, 08:26:10 AM
Maybe lexaloffle can make some sort of authentication api. That would be best so you can save cardridges under your name too

That could work too, provided it's secure.

Ivoah · August 28, 2015, 04:05:04 AM

PICO-8 now has an IRC channel!!! Come hang out with us in #pico8 on Freenode (irc.freenode.net)

Dream of Omnimaga · August 28, 2015, 04:09:25 AM

Did the author just create it? Because I am surprised there was no official channel yet. I don't think I'll join for now, though, since I still monitor the Omninet #CodeWalrus channel, but once we ditch Omninet I might re-add Freenode to my server list on IRCCloud. I tend to not visit many channels other than CW and some friends private channels, tho, for the same reasons why I left #cemetech and the entire Omnimaga community.

Ivoah · August 28, 2015, 04:11:34 AM

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on August 28, 2015, 04:09:25 AM
Did the author just create it? Because I am surprised there was no official channel yet. I don't think I'll join for now, though, since I still monitor the Omninet #CodeWalrus channel, but once we ditch Omninet I might re-add Freenode to my server list on IRCCloud. I tend to not visit many channels other than CW and some friends private channels, tho, for the same reasons why I left #cemetech and the entire Omnimaga community.

It's kinda official. It was started by regular members, but zep sometimes drops by, and has added a link to it on pico-8.com