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Made me almost cry :( good game

I've added a visual to the game engine we are using (is Pico-8 even technically a game engine?) Unfortunately, it's gonna be a hard no on the 3D, but if you're fine with 2 players all that's left to ask is if you'd like explosions with that.

Dream of creating a game? You WANT to, but it’s just… too inconvenient?

Not with us! Playground makes you part of the design process! Here is how it works: you can join our livestream on twitch. Viewers make all the decisions, while we do all the development. You draft it, we craft it!

The game is published on itch. In between development, intervals of the game are published for the community to enjoy.

We are building in Pico-8, which looks like this:
Simple Development for us = Fast Development for you

Be sure to share with your friends. Let's make a game together!

Hi all! I'm prototyping the DOTS Unity Physics system by creating (and stealing (lots of it, too)) my own ECS projects in order to learn how to program in a Data Oriented way.
For the people less technically aligned: DOTS is 100x faster than other stuff. So it's a big deal.
There is not a lot now, but I will be updating my progress regularly on my itch page here. If you are interested, you can follow along with me.

Right now I'm focussing on creating flocks of fish (boids) that will swim around obstacles.

Image taken from Unity, project not mine. My own results may (will) differ.

Credit to hecomi and his ECS boids for getting me started.

Ah, I'm sorry. Since you can separate the favicon from the cover images, I will make some better cover images for those games. That fixes my issue then, thanks a lot!

I see... thanks a lot, I hadn't looked in the widgets yet!

I noticed that when I added a cover image to my game, it got displayed in the browser as an icon, like so:

Since I like me some attention to detail, I chose to make my cover images all be simple descriptive icons. Neat!

But then I return to my creator page and am horrified to see this:

Whatever styling I had gets ruined by the white background. When I insert a png, I expect a transparent background.

I would love for the failsafe white background to go away all together. I think creators are smart enough to add a custom background to their images themselves if they so wish, and there are even free online tools to do it.

However, with a custom background, the image doesn't look nice as a browser icon anymore. So perhaps the cover image should be separated from the browser icon altogether and it should just be the beautiful itch logo up in there.

Play here!

A small project made in three weeks, aimed to challenge me in writing clean, modular code and integrating code patterns for scalable solutions.

And that's really what it's all about :D

I really wish you could actively control the rabbit.

There is clearly a basis for something interesting here, but the monotonous combat and lack of interesting choices leave it yet unexplored. Needs less health and more depth.