pico pico... PICard?... no it's PICO8 and picoCAD

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

I found two small (very small in every meaning 128x128 px) applications, and perfect timing too.
i needed something simple to start getting into coding games, and also something
fun to quickly make simple stuff in 3d.:
PICO-8 and picoCAD

a FANTASTIC tutorial for pico8, 29 episodes!
episode 1:

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the limitations on these programs force you to actually finish something!

Look !!! i made a game in PICO-8 : "DAEDALUS DANGER"
well... its not finished, and i`m following a tutorial.
Supersimple pixelgraphics and "easy"coding with: LUA language.

It also have a buildt-inn sound effect and music editor??!! thats crazy

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Anyway, these are fun to play with. there is a free education edition of PICO-8
but the full standalone program is pretty cheap, : 15 dollars

picoCAD by Johan Peitz are actually made with PICO-8!
....isnt picoCAD almost piCARD????
and is under a "name your own price"-structure, i gave ten bucks
this is almost more fun than coding...
My first ship: DAEDALUS :

yes... you can make and import your own textures!!
i'm planning on making a few more of these small trek-ships, so much fun
PICOPICO PICAAAAAAAAAARD
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edit: yes hello.. this is dog

 

[Michael]

Oh god, this is so cool! Love what you built with it. And I will definitely have to find some time to try this out, too.

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

thank you and yes.... you should definitely check them out, just pure fun!

 

[Santaman]

Very 8-bit looking.

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

^ very retro

edit: wip doomsdaymachine.

edit game

more edit

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[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

update on the game
some of the enemies are now attacking from the side, heeeelp

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star trek inspired camera shake

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ok so only when i shoot something then, lets see....
(hehe lol terrible ....im not going to keep it like this but it was fun overdoing it)

Hopefully i can squeeze 6 to 8 levels into this, the limit of programing
elements are 8192, and every "if", "then", "end" etc counts as 1 each.
I'm at 3150 now with three and a half levels done..
and i need a boss..... maybe a 2d version of Doomsday machine would be nice.
also the whole thing could be more star-treky...