SHOCKWAVE

(another PICO-8 game from me)

Controls

Menu: Up arrow to go to instructions page. Up arrow again to start game.

Game: Up/down/left/right arrows to move. Z to set off green shockwave, X to set off blue shockwave.

Mechanics

Shockwaves will sweep away the rocks of the same colour, but your ship is vulnerable to either kind so you had better sweep carefully! Watch the cooldown marker in the bottom left corner.

Commentary

Bah I was doing so well with my 2D board game thing from a few nights ago but I really didn't have enough time to make it happen so this came together just today. It's an awful mess in many ways but came out better than it might have done.

Lexaloffle BBS thread: here.

#1GAM April 2018

Download

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shockwave_html.zip 335 kB
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shockwave.app.zip 1,014 kB
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shockwave_linux.zip 463 kB
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shockwave_windows.zip 836 kB
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shockwave.p8.png 11 kB
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shockwave.p8 46 kB

Install instructions

The game should work great in the browser whether downloaded or not! Download the ZIP and put both files in the same folder, then double-click on 'shockwave.html'. It should open like a normal webpage.

The binaries just need to be downloaded and unzipped on the correct kind of computer - they should work from the unzipped folder with no extra messing. I'm just using the built-in PICO-8 binary export, but please let me know if something is weird with them. It is a new enough feature.

If you have PICO-8 and want to check out the game's code/etc. or just play it in the 'real thing', download either shockwave.p8 or shockwave.p8.png to your pico-8/carts directory, then load from within the game with 'load shockwave'.

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