Month: December 2015

This week I was thinking about making an asteroids clone, but I ended up making something closer to space invaders. Except without the sideways movement, or different enemies, or powers-ups…

This week I put a lot of things off ’till the last moment, so I didn’t have much time to polish and add things I wanted. I reused several bits from the third week, so I was able to get a prototype running really fast.

You can see the source here: https://github.com/DavidPD/Pico8Games/blob/master/w5_asteroids.p8

and play the game here: http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2899

This week I was inspired by Don’t Starve by Klei. So I made a survival game about not starving and not freezing. I had wanted to play with palette switching, so I came up with the idea of changing seasons to switch the map tiles’ palette around. I only created spring and winter, but I had also planned to make a day and night cycle as well. I was trying to make something extra hard this week, but I ran out of time (technically this post is late as is…), so I didn’t really take much time to balance the game. I’m not really sure if it turned out super hard, or really easy.

Things I would have liked to do include:

• day/night cycle
• Hunting with a bow and managing arrows
• selling wood and meat in villages
• animations and sound

I had fun this week, with palette swapping and graphics.

Here’s the game: http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2869

and the source: https://github.com/DavidPD/Pico8Games/blob/master/w4_survive.p8