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literally just a goofy little guy, doin a shimmy

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dev log #1 - space explorers

making a game, little game.

using pico-8, a retro 'fantasy console' that has a built in game building suite.

in this game, you pilot a space ship around a solar system, named - olivander 127, you can visit and explore planets as well as moving around inside your ship

i will be using and referencing pico 8 code from mccolgst's astroid clone on the lexaloffle forum

i will be using the lua programming language with the pico 8 api for all of my code examples

This code is cool.

Instead of - up, down, left, right

it uses:

up as forward

left as turn left

right as turn right

this seems to be the easiest way to have non-sprite game objects that can rotate innside of pico 8

lets talk about how this works...

the foundational idea is a circle and points along that circle

looks like a clock?

what does this depiction of a clock have?

circle

line

center point (bottom of the line)

a point that moves and follows the circle line (tip of the line)

as you see the line "pointing in directions" in whichever direction that the line is facing, the object will move when a forward force is applied, "forward" being whichever direction the line is pointing towards

(this particular example has both linear momentum for the player movement and angular momentum for player rotation)

--code to be input into pico 8--

function _init()

x=64 y=64 dx=0 dy=0 a=0 da=0 r=2+rnd(2) c=5+rnd(3)

end

function _update60()

end

function _draw() cls() circ(x,y,r,c) end

we will start off with this, a mock up of a circle on our canvas.

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Generative art using pico-8!

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Catfacts is out!

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https://cz.pinterest.com/pin/1051098000508999673/

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abstract

everything in existence is analogous

"things" mirror one another

if you're stuck in the details, then you don't see it.

there are only simple elements in the universe.