Most sytems are in place now, just need scoring, the boss battle and lots of number tweaking. Oh, and everything else.

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Excellent work Paul, not for the bug fix. For the game. Very nice version.

The Seaside Drive / Star Waspir mashup nobody asked for. Making good progress.

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The thought occurs, what if Star Waspir and Seaside Drive shared the EGG mechanic?

Token anxiety got the better of me and I converted my Seaside Drive demake to Picotron. Having to render to a 384x216 screenbuffer to support ripped UFO50 sprites (they look too small at 480x270 and don't look well scaled).
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Cool. Loved Microbes, so looking forward to this.

Giving Microbes on the Amiga vibes (enemies would spread like bacteria in a dish)

Starting to flesh out waves. The funny thing about this demake is that it's taken me until now to realise that Seaside Drive is just a single screen locked yaxis Shmup. The horiztonal scrolling of the background tricks your brain into thinking it is something different.

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Is anyone else on this infinite loop?

#pico8 (too constrained, I'm worried about tokens, I know, I'll use) -> #picotron (well, I'm might as well use) -> #love2d (now I'm obsessing over architectural correctness and graphics, I know, I'll use) -> Pico-8...and so on.

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Adding a bit of that outrun feel. Also added spatial partioning so I can fire a ton of bullets and maintain 13%CPU at 60fps.

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Wrapped up my first #pico8 game "Artefacts of Atlantis"! It's a systems driven submarine "simulator" where the first challenge is to figure out how to drive the damn thing.. Please check it out at www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=156... if this kind of thing appeals to you :]

Seems like a very reasonable use of a Saturday to me.

Working on a spatial partioning test for my Sunset Drive demake. Strangely cathartic and more importantly, quite performant with 200 entities + bullets at 60fps.

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Moving along nicely. Sunset Drive is one of my favourite ufo50 games. One of the few games in the collection that is deceptively easy - once you realise that waggling left/right is the way to keep charge at 100%.

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The beginnings of a Sunset Drive demake, charging and firing is done.

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Trying to learn batching graphics with userdata in #picotron. Massive performance difference compared to a more traditional AoS approach. I can shift 2000 sprites with < %50 CPU.

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Having fun making things interactable. Papers Please?

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Very nice. If you're going to expand on this you might want to think about risk/reward which is really the main mechanic of avoid-em-ups. i.e. there should be more reward for collecting a power pill close to a floating brick. Don't Die Mr Robot is a great example of this type of game.

Continuing experiments with new UFO50 mechanics. What if Kick Club had multi-ball and aiming assist?

#ufo50 #kickblub #gamedev #picotron #pico8

Mac users looking to try out 868-Hack for the @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social series can ignore the 32-bit steam warning. It runs fine on my M2 Mac mini.

I think splatoon 3 and Fortnite have a similar approach. The lobby can be dual purpose, a place to mess around for a bit or a place to warm up/run drills

There’s always the option of give me a simple fun game to play while I wait - like the original splatoon did

Yay! Make sure you're on the latest version, which has the ability to import a PNG as a spritesheet.

Increased the verbs for Bounder. Bounder can now dash, is forced to roll over some surfaces and can be launched like a rocket. Now I need to fix my collisions again...

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You can always choose a lower res vid mode to maintain that pico8 feel. Vid 4 will give you 160x90

Game feel suggestion - position rings high in the air and underwater. Then have waves that can send you high and allow player to tilt jet ski to send it underwater. This is why wave race is still the GOAT today

More Bounder progress: slightly improved tileset, added collisions with "high" tiles and other entities. Player now respawns after death. Recreated the first level from the original (with one extra jump tile for testing because I still can't play this game).

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IMO, worth it to be able to create more readable code. Only downside for me so far is the SFX stuff is a bit over my head compared to Pico8

I remember that season when Arsenal managed a staggering goal difference all from corners.

More progress on Bounder, moved to Pictotron for an easier time of things. Added patrolling enemies. Movement doesn't feel quite right yet. Need to build some levels, new enemy types, and make it look about 100x less ugly.

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