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Here's something pretty special: the talented Nick Kouvaris has made a faithful – and extremely impressive! – remake of Laser League as an example project for his programming language, Hobby BASIC. The remake was made with my full permission and indeed, enthusiastic encouragement. Thank you Nick; this is so cool!

More about Hobby BASIC: https://hobbybasic-guide.netlify.app/
Nick's post about the remake: https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?p=246090#246090

Somehow I missed your post at the time, but I wanted to belatedly thank you for this thoughtful take!

I love A Dark Room! The "I wonder what's going to happen next?!" angle is huge for me. Numbers going up are fun, of course, but I love how the game keeps revealing more and more of itself – "unfolding", as you say.

I wanted to get a little of that spirit of discovery in Truffle Wizard, even though it's mechanically a lot simpler than A Dark Room.

(And, all going well, there will be more of it in the upcoming commercial revamp of Truffle Wizard as well!)

Aw, thank you for the lovely feedback, Parker! I’m pleased to say that I am indeed working on an enhanced version. It’s coming together slowly but (hopefully!) surely. 🙂

Thanks! I'm prototyping some ideas for both of these. Appreciate the suggestions!

Hi everyone! Thank you for the continuing lovely response to the game.

I'm considering developing an enhanced version of Truffle Wizard for a commercial release on Steam. I have some ideas of my own about what I'd add for that, but thought it would be great to ask everyone here first.

So: if you had your own "Arguably Somewhat Forbidden Book of Magic" (😉), and could use it to change, add or remove something from Truffle Wizard: what would it be?

Ha, cool question! I'm stretching my memory here, but I think it's something along the lines of: if you have a high inspiration, there's a higher chance that you'll write a 'rad' song. Rad songs... pull bigger crowds? I think? Goodness me, I should probably go look at the code.

Really clever, concise design, and great use of PICO-8! Love the zooming effect – it never gets old. 👌

Works great on my phone with the Backbone controller, by the way!

Thanks for the kind words so far, folks. I've now completed open-sourcing the game; link in the description!

That's really cool to hear. I was hoping that people would be able to do that with it!

Oh, thank you! This was really fun to make. Glad you're enjoying it!

Thank you for the kind responses, folks! Glad you've enjoyed the game. I had a lot of fun making it. (That's probably it for this game – I did try a few different extra mechanics, but I never found anything more fun than just flying around and zooming through gates. 😏)

Thanks Speed Strike, and I completely agree! Maybe one day I'll make a sequel. ("Number #1 by '91"? 😉)

Haha, glad you appreciated that! Great what you can do with a single-frame reaction sprite.

Thank you! Designing the gradated puzzles and the little bits of personality were my two favourite parts of the development process. 🙂

Thank you for the kind words! It's lovely to hear that folks are still playing and enjoying this.

Thank you Lloyd. 🙂

Thanks so much for playing, and great walkthrough video. Ha, I watched how you did level 13, and you did it completely differently to how I intended! 😂 I like your solution, though, very cool!

Thank you! 🙂

Thank you! It was fun to find three abilities that worked well together.

Thanks Pasta Pig! Yes, plenty of potential there for other gadgets. 🙂

Thank you, and yes, I did! It was all made in the built-in PICO-8 music editor.

Awesome, glad you enjoyed it!

Yay, that's exactly what I was going for. :-) Thank you!

:-D Thanks!

Thank you! :-)

Glad you enjoyed it, cheers!

Thank you!

Thanks for the continuing nice feedback, folks! :)

Thanks Paul!

Good to know, thanks!

I'm new to itch.io development, and first I have to say how impressed I am at the developer experience. From butler, to the page design tools, to the friendliness of the community, it's been fantastic.

Signed by ’89, an HTML5 game, had a no-audio problem on some Safari and Brave browsers, which I believe I've now resolved locally. I've been testing using a local HTTP server and my own "pretend this is running on itch.io" iframe wrapper, but I'd love to test against the real itch.io environment. I'd like to push an "update candidate" which I can test thoroughly without affecting the live build.

So far I haven't been able to work out how to do this, using butler or any other method, short of creating a whole new "unreleased" project just for testing. Is what I've described possible? Am I missing something obvious? Thanks!

Thanks for your kind words; glad you enjoyed it, Tom! It was a lot of fun to make. :-D

This is great! Brutally hard but totally fair—I feel personally responsible for every peon death. ;-) Love the pixel art and chiptunes.

My poor peons! Hundreds of deaths, and I've still not reached the ending yet. But damn,  this is great stuff. It's rare to see a game jam game that feels so polished and complete. Fresh combination of puzzling and precision, with clever mechanical touches  like (as Steven said) dropped chests staying behind for a few precious seconds. Adorable pixel art, and love the perfectly-matched chiptune soundtrack. Excellent stuff.