A virtual pet/top down arena shooter game I made in 1 week to learn Lua/PICO-8. The objective of the game is to level up your pet and try to get past Wave 10.

Check out how I made it in this devlog: https://youtu.be/-h_RWeNpdvg

Controls:

  • Move - ESDF (as opposed to WASD)
  • Shoot - Left Click/Hold with Mouse
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
AuthorSquidGod
GenreAction
Made withPICO-8
TagsPICO-8, Top down shooter, Virtual Pet

Download

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virtualpet.p8.png 15 kB

Install instructions

Source is a png file that can only be run if you own a copy of PICO-8. Copy into your carts folder.

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It would be cool if you could swap esdf with the arrow keys :D

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Cool game! Excited to see what you make for the Play Date!

Thanks! Excited to develop for the Playdate too :)

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Dude I totally feel the same, but for some reason PICO-8 has only set controls and it's set to ESDF... Anyways, thanks for playing!

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no, player 1 controls are arrows, esdf is for player 2! (as shown by the controller info when you click the controller icon)

change your calls to btn to remove the 1 param and this will be fixed.

(also fyi someone uploaded your game to the lexaloffle bbs — which is nice for people using splore but maybe not something you want to allow)

Oh lol that makes sense... And thanks for letting me know about the upload to bbs. Yeah I don't really care - in fact I think it's nice that it's accessible using splore now.