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I think splatoon 3 and Fortnite have a similar approach. The lobby can be dual purpose, a place to mess around for a bit or a place to warm up/run drills

There’s always the option of give me a simple fun game to play while I wait - like the original splatoon did

Yay! Make sure you're on the latest version, which has the ability to import a PNG as a spritesheet.

Increased the verbs for Bounder. Bounder can now dash, is forced to roll over some surfaces and can be launched like a rocket. Now I need to fix my collisions again...

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You can always choose a lower res vid mode to maintain that pico8 feel. Vid 4 will give you 160x90

Game feel suggestion - position rings high in the air and underwater. Then have waves that can send you high and allow player to tilt jet ski to send it underwater. This is why wave race is still the GOAT today

More Bounder progress: slightly improved tileset, added collisions with "high" tiles and other entities. Player now respawns after death. Recreated the first level from the original (with one extra jump tile for testing because I still can't play this game).

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IMO, worth it to be able to create more readable code. Only downside for me so far is the SFX stuff is a bit over my head compared to Pico8

I remember that season when Arsenal managed a staggering goal difference all from corners.

More progress on Bounder, moved to Pictotron for an easier time of things. Added patrolling enemies. Movement doesn't feel quite right yet. Need to build some levels, new enemy types, and make it look about 100x less ugly.

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Made some progress on Bounder. Our first enemy (a dart that fires at you) and our first special tile (an acceleration tile).

I've come this far and realised I'm going to have to figure out how to get around Pico 8's vertical map height limit.

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Hah! Don't jump the gun, I'll probably get halfway through remaking and get bored.

Bounder was one of my favourite games growing up. I was never any good at it. The ball animation needs a bit of work, but it's not bad, seeing as I manually recreated it frame by frame from a Bounder ZX Spectrum YouTube walkthrough.

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FTL but for people who like cleaning instead.

Why not make a bouncing bucket that collects snow? Seems like a reasonable thing to do...

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Maybe about 10-15 mins. I lost track of time

I managed a 200 run with a combination of intense concentration and risk avoidance.

- no jumping
- no long snakes, just keep banging small drops into the drop zone
- avoid the edges as much as possible

That being said, it’s really a game of concentration. Bring at 150 is no harder than 50 - other than sweaty palms

Yes I have that problem too. Some other options might be that hitting the wall causes you to lose what you have in the snake trail or some other kind of penalty that isn’t as bad as instant death.

Oh it’s a lot faster, I’ve slowed it down now and made the grid the same size. I think it would be an interesting series to do a “what if” experiment for each ufo 50 game

An attempt to find out whether Magic Garden is better with wrapping rather than walls. Answer...I'm going to have to implement everything to find out...

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I think it depends on whether you want the main source of tension to be the controls.

I'm realising that my goal here is to make a version of Velgress that I could actually be good at.

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Hah, I think I can remember that t-shirt from the old Rodent days, but might be wrong.

Thank You!

Delighted to see a familiar face at the back. @gingerbeardman.com

Charity shop find in a Dublin Oxfam.

Nobody has died until there is a gofundme. Needs a proper send off, possibly at Disney world

Getting there...not perfect, but floating blocks can now be ridden. Blocks have mass, and enemies now patrol and can be jumped on.

credit for player sprite: x.com/LuizGdeMelo

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Ginger cat energy...

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