#lowrezjam — Public Fediverse posts

Play “You Brought a Gun to a Laser Fight” here: https://dredds.itch.io/you-brought-a-gun-to-a-laser-fight

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To show that the game is fair, and it is possible to beat the level without dying...

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Level 4 has a different vibe: the robots appear in formations that combine different behaviours to make more complex laser beam patterns.

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Playing through the first level after balancing gameplay parameters and spawn sequences.

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I added an animation for when the ship drops its shields.

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All the game mechanics are in place. Now I have to design levels and tune the gameplay parameters.

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Score multipliers and extra lives when you reach certain scores (set artificially low for testing in this demo).

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I am using the #Pico8 map editor as a sequencer for the enemy patterns of each level.

In other Pico8 carts I've used the Tiled map editor to draw sprite patterns and sequences, and written a compiler from the Tiled JSON files to a bytecode that is interpreted by the game. But I don't have time for that in #lowrezJAM – it's only two weeks long and I'm writing this in rare minutes spare time here and there.

Multiple levels with smooth level transitions.

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Full outer and inner game loops. #lowrezJAM #Pico8