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Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game

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Re: Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game

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Post by frenchie14 »

VyseofArcadia wrote: post #9

What was your workflow? Last time I played around with PICO-8 I found the built-in editor to be inadequate. Using an external editor was also annoying for reasons I don't quite remember, but I remember having to close and re-open PICO-8 all the time. Not exactly a the tight, seamless iteration loop I was hoping for.

My .p8 file just has `#include driftmania-min.lua` and I do all the code edits in an external editor on that file. By splitting it out you remove the conflicts from modifying code and audio/graphics at the same time

Re: Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game

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Post by silenced_trope »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #5

Aside, I just realized Vimium doesn't get disabled inside iframes on pages where it's disabled, nor can you disable the iframe domain from the parent page since the iframe regex won't match the parent url. I had to disable the whole plugin for "x" to work in the iframe. Seems like an oversight on Vimium's part. As for the game, it's satisfying to ratchet down to the 39 second threshold for the gold medal by figuring…

This happens with anything Vimium.

I usually just hit the "i" button to enter insert mode.

Re: Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game

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Post by asimovfan »

lagniappe wrote: post #12

This device is perfect for PICO-8 if anybody wants the handheld formfactor https://powkiddy.com/products/pre-sale-powkiddy-rgb30-rk3566... Non affiliated with the company, I get nothing from saying this, it's just a decent device all around. The 1:1 aspect ratio on the screen really does PICO-8 games justice, along with MAME and other popular platforms. The greatest thing is these devices are super cheap and easy to…

is there a way to play these on the phone?

Re: Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game

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Post by frenchie14 »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #5

Aside, I just realized Vimium doesn't get disabled inside iframes on pages where it's disabled, nor can you disable the iframe domain from the parent page since the iframe regex won't match the parent url. I had to disable the whole plugin for "x" to work in the iframe. Seems like an oversight on Vimium's part. As for the game, it's satisfying to ratchet down to the 39 second threshold for the gold medal by figuring…

Sorry about that! There's another version uploaded here: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=140202

Does that one work better with vimium?

Re: Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game

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Post by frenchie14 »

lbotos wrote: post #19

Interesting meta question: Do others expect the car be lined up to go right? Is this a cultural expectation? I come from a LtR writing culture so I was wondering if others were surprised at the car going left at the start.

There are 15 levels with a variety of start directions. Which direction I picked was based on how I wanted that particular level to flow

Re: Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game

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Post by hombre_fatal »

frenchie14 wrote: post #25
hombre_fatal wrote: post #5

Aside, I just realized Vimium doesn't get disabled inside iframes on pages where it's disabled, nor can you disable the iframe domain from the parent page since the iframe regex won't match the parent url. I had to disable the whole plugin for "x" to work in the iframe. Seems like an oversight on Vimium's part. As for the game, it's satisfying to ratchet down to the 39 second threshold for the gold medal by figuring…

Sorry about that! There's another version uploaded here: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=140202 Does that one work better with vimium?

It's not your fault, of course.

I just figure HN is the only place where someone might commiserate with me for the self-inflicted pain of using a half-baked Vim keybinding plugin for the browser.

It's nice to have the BBS link so I could star it though. :)

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Post by renewiltord »

lagniappe wrote: post #12

This device is perfect for PICO-8 if anybody wants the handheld formfactor https://powkiddy.com/products/pre-sale-powkiddy-rgb30-rk3566... Non affiliated with the company, I get nothing from saying this, it's just a decent device all around. The 1:1 aspect ratio on the screen really does PICO-8 games justice, along with MAME and other popular platforms. The greatest thing is these devices are super cheap and easy to…

Thank you for the recommendation. Bought one!

Re: Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

vunderba wrote: post #8

Nice work, gives me very Micro Machines vibes for the NES. The only thing I don't like about PICO-8 is that its completely closed source. An open source alternative that seems very promising is Pyxel. It has similar retro / pixel art limitations, a built-in sprite editor, music tracker, etc. https://github.com/kitao/pyxel

IIRC, the browser builds of Pyxel games end up pulling down 30mb+ of Python libraries, which seems a bit overkill for little pixel games.

TIC-80 is probably the closest open source thing to PICO-8. The browser builds ran 10% slower than the desktop app last I tried. It doesn't have a "CPU budget," so it's possible to write inefficient code that works fine on powerful machines but not slower ones.

Re: Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game

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Post by blacksmith_tb »

lagniappe wrote: post #12

This device is perfect for PICO-8 if anybody wants the handheld formfactor https://powkiddy.com/products/pre-sale-powkiddy-rgb30-rk3566... Non affiliated with the company, I get nothing from saying this, it's just a decent device all around. The 1:1 aspect ratio on the screen really does PICO-8 games justice, along with MAME and other popular platforms. The greatest thing is these devices are super cheap and easy to…

I have a Gameboy-shaped Anbernic RG351V (which runs Linux behind the scenes), it is fun to play PICO-8 games on too.
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