Oh yeah, and there’s one more: https://technomancy.us/197

This one doesn’t seem to be about a game, but the game I’m doing for this jam uses the code in the post as its engine!

I think my problem is I am a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to writing; I spend way too much time editing and tweaking my posts. Maybe I just need to go more stream-of-consciousness during the jam!

I’ve thought it’d be fun to post a devlog as you go, but I felt like it is too time-consuming to do during the jam, so I usually post retrospectives afterwards once I’ve had more time to reflect:

• https://technomancy.us/187
• https://technomancy.us/190
• https://technomancy.us/193

I do enjoy reading them tho, so thanks for sharing.

How did the meetup go?

Very cute, especially the sound effects. Simple but focused.

In a tiling WM it resizes up, but I forgot to test it on a non-tiling WM before the jam! That’s definitely something I’ll fix after the jam. =)

My kid came up with the idea for the last puzzle. I’ll tell him you liked it!

Oh! You’re not supposed to be able to beat level 3 without a piston; you must have found an alternate solution. =)

The game will scale up the display if you resize the window, but I use a tiling WM so I didn’t realize that the option to allow regular WMs to resize had been disabled. My bad!

This reminds me of one of the quests from Morrowind!

one day later …

It’s fine (and encouraged) to submit early! It’s only during the judging period that uploading things is not allowed.

I know it’s early but let’s get a thread going of screenshots!

No theme; let your imagination run wild!

Just to kick off the discussion, what stack are people planning on using?

I started off with love2d (and still think it’s fantastic) but I’ve recently been on a TIC-80 kick for the past few games I’ve done. However, for this time around I’m going to be doing something completely different and not having any graphics at all!

Definitely the most thought-provoking of the bunch!

I like the splashy particle effects.

Any chance we could get a build which doesn’t require such a new glibc? Or maybe an arm64 build? It won’t run on my kids machine because the OS isn’t new enough and it won’t run on my machine because mine’s not intel.

Having dealt with creating graphics with a limited palette, I’m really impressed with how the sprites turned out in this! They do NOT look like 16-color sprites.

With a few more tweaks to make it clearer why things are happening I think this could be really solid!

Thanks! I realized about 2 hours before the end of the jam that endless mode ramped up difficulty way too hard so I eased off on it but I think I went too far. Difficulty ramps up based on log(time) so it does increase but much too slowly. At least it should be appropriate for people who haven’t played Puyo Puyo before, haha.

There’s only 4 missions so I think you should be able to get back to where you were pretty quickly after losing but yeah, starting the level back over would have been better.

I think the main problem is it’s really difficult to actually find the source for what you did for the jam since there is so much code in the tarball and most of it was pre-existing. The jam page mentions you should make an effort to show what you worked on for the jam; maybe in the readme you could point to the main.fnl file and explain where the rest of the code came from?

If you’re using Fennel and Love2d for the jam and this isn’t your first game, please consider making your game using version 1.0.0-dev of Fennel so we can put the latest version thru the paces and see if it’s ready for a final release. But if it’s your first jam don’t sweat it and just stick with the stable version.

I’ve got a branch you can use here: https://gitlab.com/technomancy/min-love2d-fennel/-/tree/1.0.0-dev

We had an entry last time using a custom lisp stack which targeted the Apple ][gs so I mean, seems right up the same alley: https://spindleyq.itch.io/8-bitsy

FWIW I’ve never had trouble running your games on Debian. All it takes is sudo apt install racket and then it runs fine.

Oh dang; I didn’t realize you had updated this to include publishing to the browser! That’s great to hear. I was going to do another TIC game but I might go back to love2d if the browser publishing is working.

Hello! I’m the lead developer of the Fennel programming language. Fennel is one of the languages included in TIC-80, and making TIC games is one of the more common things that Fennel is used for.

We are running a survey to help us understand how to improve Fennel. If you’ve tried it, even just a bit, please check out https://fennel-lang.org/survey and let us know your thoughts.

I found a still-maintained fork called gbajs2 and asked about this there. They gave a good answer; looks pretty easy! https://github.com/andychase/gbajs2/issues/24

Thanks; that looks great! It plays my rom nicely.

Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to have any documentation; the readme refers to a wiki that no longer exists. I want to publish a version which includes my rom and doesn’t make people select it with a file upload dialog. Do you know if there are any examples of such a thing published elsewhere that I could follow? I don’t know any Javascript but if I saw another game do this I bet I could figure it out.

Edit: oops; posted before I saw that you gave a second suggestion. gbaninja looks like it has better docs but it crashes loading my game while gbajs plays it flawlessly.

I know there are some GBA emulators that run in the browser. Does anyone have recommendations/tips for how to get a cart embedded in such a way that you can play it straight out of the itch page without downloading or installing anything?

Thanks; I got a decent answer on their issue tracker, though their docs could certainly be improved.

A simple example for anyone who’s curious: https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/liquid-runner-3/tree/master/item/Makefile#L51

Importing a sprite sheet from TIC-80 turned out to be pretty easy using gbagfx.

I’m looking at tilemap studio and it looks promising; however there aren’t any examples in the docs about how to incorporate it into a GBA game. Does anyone have an example of using a map created in this program and incorporating it into a GBA build?

Thanks but I just noticed the other thread which says there’s no way to run it on glibcs older than 2.29; I have 2.28.

Is there a way to run this on a system that has libffi6 instead of 7?

I love how you can be playing thru and then all of the sudden be like “where did THAT come from?” Very peaceful and soothing to play.

It broke my brain around the 3rd Y combinator puzzle, but this was really inventive. At first I was like “wait how is there all this lisp code with no quoting” and then I was like “ohhhhh that’s basically the whole game”. Love the idea. Also this reminded me a lot of the structural editor I was working on a few months ago; same key bindings used to traverse the code trees.

robotfindskitten is exactly what I thought of too–the randomness of the conversations would make it feel like that even if it didn’t involve … finding a kitten.

Thanks! Most of the puzzles were made by my 10-year-old son who has a couple of his own games on his own itch page: https://zachhagelb.itch.io/

Disappointed I couldn’t personally flood Mr Website’s house tho

I should have made that the reward for getting all 10,000 points!

It’s a lot harder than it looks! I like how you mix multiple rulesets into the same grid to spice things up. Fun times!

The music really makes this work! Short but sweet.

I couldn’t get this running on the latest Debian or on Fedora 31; I get “./zonqueror: /lib64/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.33 not found (required by ./zonqueror)” followed by the same message again but with GLIBC_2.32.