Pico1K Entry submitted! Came in at 1020 compressed bytes in the end, and was a ton of fun to make. Check it out on itch at sizescape.itch.io/qball

My high score is 348, let me know if you manage to beat it! :D

Thanks @liquidream.bsky.social for hosting this jam!

#pico8 #pico1k

Hitting up against the limits again for #pico1k. Added in a bunch the features that I wanted, and the game's starting to really come together. You can finally actually lose a run, and playing the game is cutting into my dev time, always a good sign. :D

#pico8

Making good progress on #pico1k!

Moved all of the sprite assets into code, smoothed the animations, and shrank a bunch of the logic code down, made it down under 1009 bytes compressed.

Now time to enter my favorite loop--each byte I remove gives me more bytes to add new stuff in. :D

#pico8

For #pico1k this year, started on a prototype of a weird idea I had: what would happen if you crossed qbert + jezzball? The resulting game is decently fun, and the very rough prototype came in at 1762 bytes, should be able to make it fit in 1k! #pico8 #arcade

Visited the SF Bay Model today, and this fine fellow is what the Army Corps of Engineers is trying to pass off as the sun.

Messing around with #pioc8 fillp constants is always fun for making these retro feeling demos.

Getting back in the #pico8 tweetcart seat, a bit of a sketch of an idea tonight, inspired by a demo I half-remember seeing, but can't find right now. I think it looks pretty neat.

?"⁶!5f101😐<"
r=sin::o::for o=rnd(3)\1,128,3do for d=rnd(3)\1,128,3do pset(o,d,0)e=o-10n=d+21for f=0,1do i=t()-f/2if((4*r(i/2)+16*r(sqrt(e^2+n^2)/70-i/8)+3*r(e/(100+10*cos(n/9)))+cos(n/(31+6*r(e/10))))\3==0)pset(o,d,2-f)
end end end flip()goto o

#pico8 #tweetcart

Starting my next #crossstitch, maybe gridding on a 5 stitch count is overkill, lol

Finished, ironed and mounted! Procrastinated these last few steps a while, but it makes a big difference.

But who... or what is calling? #crossstitch

Finished my first 4 cross stitch kits and finally washed and ironed them! Happy how they turned out, but now what do I do with them? I probably should figure this out soon, since I already got more. 😀

I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2024!
#AdventOfCode adventofcode.com

Great again this year, though I started late and was busy, so only managed to break top 1k 5 times. Puzzle 15 Part 2 was a fun one for stretching Sokobon-coding muscles, and makes for a nice ASCII visualization.