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53:37 If you want to convey specifically that these are police vehicles without wasting extra sprites on them, you could have the code manually place some blinking blue and red pixels on the tops of those trucks to give them flashing emergency lights.

I really wish more complex pico 8 titles like Poom worked with p8x8. Can’t wait for that day

Games are never finished, they are only abandoned.

Normalizing the palette index seems like a useful idea, I always kinda make a bit of a mess with hardcoded values in the fade which I guess is fine but editing it afterwards is annoying. PS: Wouldn't a for loop be cheaper than a repeat until decrementing in the wait function?

Great tutorial as always, thanks to you Krystian.Oh, it's Buster Ermy actually - it's my @real name that appears here on youtube ¯\(ツ)/¯ - A big thank you to you, also, for the presentation of my "V-Impact" on your channel. A little bit of pressure too because I can no longer disappoint now ah ah, it’s terrible! Oh, I can't say when the game will be released but most likely not until after your tutorials are finished. For now, Wow! these fade in & out, I can't wait to integrate them into my game. Okay, I'll stop talking and go back to work ah ah o(^▽^)o

Nice PG Exia !

Just in time. I was dying for an episode.

I really have to rework my game's fading setup. I have multiple calls to the fading and I could be saving tokens if it's a general global fade funtion

The way the blinking text is handled feels "cute", in a way! Just adding multiple of the same value in an array to make a certain color last longer and whatnot, it just feels nice and tangible! c:

Whenever I heard anyone talk about Ikaruga, I've heard nothing but praise for the Polarity system, the music, and even the story of the game. And now that I'm learning about how Shmups work, I can see how Ikaruga was able to break so many rules of Shmup design and still have the game work and be fair BECAUSE of the Polarity system. This is the first I've heard of it being controversial.

Interesting. So Credit Feeding seems to be one of the earliest methods of Pay-To-Win in gaming history, since you're literally feeding the machine money to get extra lives and win.

Thank you man! I really appreciate the amount of work you put into this. Your explanation is the best man!. Cheers!

Keyword FANTASY

Game looks so good :)

I was thinking I'd see some more accessible shmups like Tyrain, Ikaruga, and Jamestown (I always play co-op). It's got 2 outta 3. I think Gradius V had save states where you could pickup where left off. Many other games shown look way too complicated, and I played games like these as a kid. Minishoot Adventures is my favorite so far, but it wasn't out when this video was made.

Are we going to be able to buy this game? Please!

Hey, are you gonna be at Gamescom next week?

Finish the game, it's gonna be easy....oh dear you have now blessed us with another large set of videos

It's so nice to see you ! And now we all have to make the best of it~! (*￣▽￣)b

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I'm really glad you are back!

OMG! - back in business 8)

Hi Christian! I'm so happy I found this series because I've wanted to learn Pico-8 for awhile (and also just have been trying to get into programming for awhile) but it all seems so scary, but you make it so much more approachable, so thank you! I had a question: when we are making the ship bounce back and forth earlier in the episode, when we met the "if" condition of Harry>120 and the speed is set to -2 to move to the left, why does it keep moving to the left even after Harry is back under 120? Isn't the condition no longer met so the speed should no longer be -2? Or does it only set the speed to -2 WHEN we reach the condition and then it remains that way until a different condition changes the speed again? (like Harry<0 setting the speed back to 2). I mean I imagine the latter to be the case because that's kind of what seemed to be happening with what we saw but I was still a little confused :0

How did you put the title and your name on the cartridge image itself?

i'm so excited for picotron. i really like that desktop that you can uncover lol

Good review! I like the unit, but really you can just root a Chromebook and install Linux to wind up with something thinner, lighter, and more robust with full-sized keys, trackpad, touchscreen…

I've bought a Pico-8 game, so I guess yes? 😅

Pico-8 is such pure joy to work in. I love the tracker. I wish zep would add midi input so it would be simple to type notes in with a USB piano keyboard. (It's much easier for me as a composer to see the piano layout in front of me when inventing melodies) But, it's possible to write a script to do this (sends midi notes to Pico 8 as keystrokes)...got it working on Windows and Linux.

22:49 i have the same mindset XD

Wow, the way the girl is smiling. it makes me feel like she likes me. Danbo, let us marry I luv you. I will treat you better not like other men I swaer. youre soc ute

Hey Christian. Thanks for all the great tutorials. You have a real flair for instruction. I'm curious... Pico-8 has been out for quite a while but it's still in v0.2.68? What, if anything, does this number tell you about the developer's plan for a "final product"? Asked another way, the tool seems pretty stable and baked at this point, so what's keeping it from v1.0 and do you have a sense for why it's still so far from that (numerically)?

Where's Black Bird?

Why not buy the second microsd card? It still comes with preloaded games.

​ @LazyDevs Could you ever explore the Pico-8's "serial" (via GPIO) capability? It'd be awesome to see a Pico-8 game triggering serial I/O. serial is official and documented (but a bit under-documented, and only a couple of proof-of-concepts found online using GPIO)

7:15 "Some of us... Some of us are built different. Some of us have 'special needs'." "And those needs are tokens." Got me dying, amazing video!

I was the 6.1k like on the vid-

26:32 segs

I noticed that often you think a lot about the wording (e.g. When you hesitated to call it "Enemy Behaviour" over "Behaviour", and then the word shortening at 46:47) but aside from fitting more words on screen does this have a significant effect on token count? In my program I usually use the full words, for my own sake to remember what exactly I am doing, as when I return later I often forget my own shorthand 😅... Just curious if this is just a good habit for more complex programs later on?

is it true with Pico 8 games, that you download the cover from the site where you buy your license, and that's basically the game itself.

this or rgb20s

Link to shirt worn in the intro please!!!!

Putting aside shmups for a second, this is one of the best dev related videos because of how honest, and interospective you are as a human being, and that really lends a lot of real true emotion to this tale. This is actually quite a story end to end, and it is worth telling over and over again, and I think it could resonate with any game developers regardless of genre! Well done with this!

Question: If you want focus fire and hyper/bombing in your game, why not just have the ship auto-fire when no button is pressed and then use one button for focus and the other for hyper? (sorry if you addressed this at some point, but that thought was bugging me the entire video lol)

The rotate screen thing is cool but I just assumed you'd made one palette with half the normal and half the default colours, and another palette with the other halves, and switched halfway down the display.

i really love the artwork. especially the cows <3

Fantastic video. Especially the discussion at the end. Deep lessons that relate to my work and hobbies.

I think the stars in round 3 are really interesting. I think the main issue isn't necessarily the "ask" side as you put it (though you did ask for a bit too much with how fast you made them LOL) but rather where the ask was coming from - I think the difficulty in grabbing stars should come from the more natural level elements/enemies and stuff. My guess is that if you slowed them down soplayers could always grab them if no enemies are on screen, but then started contesting that with enemy bullets/spawns players would feel like dropping stars is more "fair". They'd think "I COULD grab all these shiny stars, but then I'm not quick killing the enemies fast enough and the next wave will kill me" instead of just getting annoyed at the star falling speed But that also gets into your level design/mechanics interaction comment - this kinda stuff is hard to test for without levels that really challenge the players. That's why I think it's a good idea to start with really hard levels and then scale back, as painful as that might be for playtesters. It's definitely a very tricky needle to thread. Happy to contribute to this even if I didn't playtest the later stuff, really useful stuff for shmup devs

These are really interesting insights, thanks for sharing.

Is there a category name for those early 80's shmups like Galaga or Space Invaders?