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PICO-8: Top-Down Adventure Game Tutorial

A beginner-level tutorial for making a top-down adventure game in PICO-8. 路 By MBoffin (Dylan Bennett)

Fantastic Tutorial Series

A topic by jaydotjay created Aug 28, 2019 Views: 524 Replies: 3
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I absolutely love this series! Almost every other tutorial I see for programming in PICO-8 is very, very long and kind of rambly. Your narration is great and your videos are quick and to the point. You really got me back into the bug of coding again.

Please continue making tutorials! Whether it be expanding on this, or just more tutorials in general! Your style is so refreshing and I'm eagerly awaiting everything you have next.

In case you're low on topics, I'm really interested in seeing how to flesh out the text system you have into a menu or even a multiple choice dialogue option? I'm also trying to figure out how to do turn-based combat. Whatever you have next, I'm glad you're not stopping!

Developer

Thank you! I'm really glad to hear they've been so helpful. 馃槉 Now that I have a workflow nailed down for creating these, I hope to do more. This kind of feedback is definitely encouraging and I appreciate it. 馃槃 I will definitely keep those ideas in mind for future tutorials.

I just wanted to echo earlier comments (i see this is from a year ago!) and thank you for your tutorials. I had previously created my own adventure-game style system for a procedurally generated project and had run into various issues where i cobbled together a solution. Your solutions are simple and clear and helped me create a basic form that I can use for future projects. I expanded on it a bit and added in a dialog system and scene changes. For example, in mine you can walk into a doorway and then the view changes to show inside the house. Thanks for your work on this!

+1 thanks! Great series, succinct and clear, and got me up and running a game in an afternoon - just what Pico-8 promised! Thank you so much for creating and sharing it :) (I thought I'd already posted this, but apparently not!)