Okay, got a little bit of time and poked at this some more. One very interesting thing with PICO-8 constraints and my style is that I tend to do a lot of stuff manually, like in the previous GIF the pods are created when I press ❎, and marked as okay when I press 🅾️. Those are the buttons! That's it! What if I want to do more stuff? Well, I guess there's fancy stuff I can do with key presses, but I can also embrace the constraints. The pods will come in automatically, so why not work on that?
I also played with not all of the lanes active at the start, and activating over time. (Hey, and now that I have a button freed up I can use that to activate lanes manually).
Also, now instead of being on the pod itself to mark it, you need to be on the "pad" next to it. I added a nice indicator of when you're in the right place, and it also acts as another indicator of the lane being inactive (since it doesn't "light up").
There's a lot of graphics work to do, but I think next will be menu / splash screen / instructions.
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