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PicoBus Mini's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Authenticity (Use of resolution restriction) | #120 | 4.455 | 4.455 |
| Graphics | #142 | 3.455 | 3.455 |
| Overall | #203 | 3.205 | 3.205 |
| Audio | #254 | 2.455 | 2.455 |
| Gameplay | #264 | 2.455 | 2.455 |
Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Was the resolution a challenge?
Ultimately, the biggest hurdle was text. I had to discard all flavor text on the bus select screen. I managed to get the rest to stay with the help of punyfont and a font provided to me in the PICO-8 Discord server. The existing sprites were upscaled in the original as is. In terms of the original: attempting to fit detailed bus sprites into a average of 3 PICO-8 tiles was difficult, and even though it does not look like it (because I stripped out some sprites) I did end up running out of spritesheet room and had to make use of zep's compression snippet and some minor memory copying.
What did you learn?
I learned that it apparently can be rather easy to adapt a preexisting project to fit a new restriction.
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A funny adaptation of the original crazy bus. In the future, I think its best if you try to avoid using images from other games in game jams. Congratulations on your first game jam.
Truly the peak o' bus games.
I started the game and listened to the title screen. Was not disappointed. 10/10 would honk horn again. Keep up the good work.
I really like the full screen compressed images, a nice touch for some would-be bus-spotters out there! Maybe you would consider to have some more challenge in addition to the 'top trumps' trivia feel? Or perhaps that's missing the point!
Great great parody! love it
I gotta hand it to you. This is really something. I saw the original Pico-Bus in the Splore page just the other day, and I'm honored to be jamming with you. :)