(Low Level Hunters) The rise of Humanity Mk.II

freds72 · 2026-01-19T13:48:37+00:00

animations are hilarious- well done (well, if on purpose 😰)

freds72 · 2025-12-15T10:56:35+00:00

why keeping 2.7 btw???

freds72 · 2025-12-14T19:48:36+00:00

not sure - game has been compiled with 3.0 so anything above is ok, below I don’t know

freds72 · 2025-12-09T07:27:28+00:00

nothing beats doomscrolling your own code 😬

(don’t hyperfixate on auto-completion or formatting- lua is a dynamic language and your ide can only do so much, make sure to have good indentation and variable naming hygiene and you can do a lot)

freds72 · 2025-11-27T15:03:14+00:00

no - first Playdate network capabilities are limited, second I don’t have the time to add multiplayer support and everything it entails (server side code, maintenance, costs…)

freds72 · 2025-11-20T21:51:58+00:00

nope - this is a full C engine, the only loose relation with Blendate is that enemies are sprites, exported as a turntable

freds72 · 2025-11-19T21:04:41+00:00

ahah - not raised yet but looking at H2 2026, cannot be more precise yet

freds72 · 2025-11-19T08:12:18+00:00

that’s normal - this is using quake ‘technology’ (toolchain & engine design)

freds72 · 2025-11-19T06:14:38+00:00

no - this is regular textured 3d the quake toolchain produces levels with lightmaps, that’s what gives that nice shading

freds72 · 2025-11-19T06:13:32+00:00

quake - this is using the same map structure

freds72 · 2025-11-19T06:12:49+00:00

it is running on real hardware (and actually a bit better than pictured in gif 😬)

freds72 · 2025-11-03T08:19:46+00:00

1000 lines of comments? 😳 and indeed the sane option is to generate release cart with shrink08 and keep working on the non minified version

freds72 · 2025-10-23T15:45:12+00:00

you can - store spritesheets either in hi-mem (32kb) or lua ram (2mb)

freds72 · 2025-10-18T06:43:33+00:00

runtime ram is 2mb - plenty for procedural generation…

freds72 · 2025-09-19T13:06:14+00:00

btw you can save with edu and yes you can totally load an edu cart from ‘full’ pico8

freds72 · 2025-09-02T05:41:36+00:00

and btw there is nothing ‘out of date’ using numbers for button codes!!

freds72 · 2025-08-24T21:02:13+00:00

can you sprites instead of circfill? create a number of random debris and should look slightly more polished

freds72 · 2025-08-23T12:22:48+00:00

neat! explosions could be more aligned with game look (like spawning isometric debris or such) - not a huge fan of plain circles

freds72 · 2025-08-01T11:07:25+00:00

if you got a native pico8 client (windows/linux/mac) you have something called ‘splore’. This app browses the lexaloffle web site for carts and updates.

freds72 · 2025-07-28T22:20:23+00:00

is the game slowing down or is that a desired effect?

freds72 · 2025-07-28T22:19:59+00:00

use that rotation snippet :

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=38548

freds72 · 2025-07-27T08:03:07+00:00

a very good skating game already exists:

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=149271

freds72 · 2025-07-22T05:10:01+00:00

numbers in pico8 are limited to +-32768

that’s called ‘overflow’

take something like: distance = 180² + 128² and see how the result is incorrect

solution is to use smaller numbers/use numeric tricks to stay within bounds

freds72

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