Creating objects in Pico-8 using tables to imitate classes
After a while, it becomes necessary to use objects in your program. That is, you create a class of object […]
First Steps in PICO-8: Easy Collisions with Map Tiles
In an earlier post I looked at colliding with other objects in PICO-8 using a hitbox function. In this post
First Steps in PICO-8: Parallax scrolling
Scrolling backgrounds are fantastic for giving the illusion of movement and in the last post we looked at a simple
First Steps in PICO-8: Scrolling backgrounds
Having a scrolling background and a static player can be a very simple way of giving the illusion of movement.
First Steps in PICO-8: Hitting things
A game without any collisions would be a very boring game indeed, but programming the functionality required for collisions is
First Steps in PICO-8: Moving a character on screen
As soon as you have started PICO-8 you will want to get an object to move around the screen. In
Collisions between objects using line intersection
Collisions are always one of the more difficult aspects of computer game programming. One very useful method of determining whether
Friction and Inertia in Computer Games: Making things drift
One of the best ways to make a computer game feel ‘real’ is to add inertia to your characters. In
First Steps in PICO-8: Set up a new PICO-8 project
PICO-8 enables you to become a computer games programmer without the distractions of a cumbersome IDE or a complex set
Responding to Buttons using Bitwise Addition in PICO-8
It is possible to respond to each button press in PICO-8 by using conditional statements like this: if btn(0) then