🚀Learn how to make a BETTER #shmup !🚀
It is the beginning of a new tutorial series for more experienced developers looking to enhance their skills. We'll go trough all the steps to create a PROPER shmup on #pico8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSx2YHy9Gp8
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On this episode we do a deep dive into the visuals of videogame shooting. We demystify phenomena like the Wagon-wheel effect and Strobing
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On this episode we start a multi-episode arc about how to create a sublime explosion. Today we study explosions IRL and in animation and lay down the foundations.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UXICxGco3LA
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On this episode the quest for the perfect explosion continues as we explore our options to do the shading with #pico8 's dithering capabilities
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On this episode our plan for the perfect explosions comes together as we create clusters of blobs which we shall call "grapes". This is how the juice is made!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_89O9Atj8Q
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On this episode we polish the animation of our explosion grapes to make more of that sweet, sweet explosion juice
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On this episode we add color to our explosion and figure out a way to animate it for those beautiful fire color gradients!
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This episode is the finale of our explosion subplot. We finally have our fully procedural, fully juiced-up explosion. Don't tell Musk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LNLwVs4csU
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On this episode we move on to a new topic. We are upgrading our map system with sideways scrolling and a special boss mode!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoSQdhJZ1TM
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On this special episode we walk you trough the delicate process of level and tilemap design - now it all comes together. Might be interesting even if you aren't following the series!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7zSbY2YrRs
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State Machines. Who's got 'em? We've got 'em too! In this episode we continue setting up the skeleton for the meat of our game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsXNTiqAc2U
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You asked for it and here we finally are. We dig into efficient techniques to save sprite sheet space. Introducing the MSPR Sprite System!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyKhc0MU5fI
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On this episode we unleash the full form of the MSPR Sprite System and implement ... Symmetry and Sprite Chaining! The ultimate Spritesheet optimization power is in our hands!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxf7zOL8UNQ
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On this episode it's another shift in the code mines as we code a new tool for a mother lode of pure token ore - Split 2D!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vScOGi_Yv8
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On this episode we finally start working on the enemies. The enemies immediately misbehave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0I49ozslo8
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On this episode we make the enemies shoot bullets on our push to make basic #shmup gameplay happen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaLzXDg3LyE
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On this episode we lay the groundwork for the dreaded Collision Detection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwtLjuS319U
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On this episode we add a pinch of juice to game and focus on the special effects of collisions. Mhhhm, just right!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bExqfNYcSik
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On this episode we begin an arc many of you have been waiting for - we discuss techniques on how to create Custom Tools for Pico-8!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkKpqcMgvJ0
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On this episode we develop techniques to write a table into a file - a key ingredient of our custom editors in #pico8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahcqTN9wcdE
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On this episode we set up a flexible UI framework to quickly develop external tools in #pico8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOfCTNT4PwQ
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On this episode we implement keyboard input in #pico8 and discover that there is actually a lot to it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQou_mwk3hY
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On this episode we finalize our Excel #Pico8 clone by implementing UI to add and remove cells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXOnJMu71MA
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Let's be real. Excel isn't that exciting. So in today's episode our #Pico8 Excel clone evolves to become ... a Sprite Editor!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BriaKuXLSg
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On this episode, we are improving our #pico8 custom Sprite Editor by expanding the UI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3iUy1WKoxQ
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On this episode we put on the finishing touches to our brand new Sprite tools by adding a bit of robustness and making sure they don't crash and destroy our work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS2j2KxcbZk
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Here we are. At the Great Wall of Shmups. On this episode, we will formulate a plan to get over it. Mr Lazy Devs, tear down that wall! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67L_FsHGsZ8
@krystman Oh wait, maybe I'm misspeaking here. This is for your shmup, right? Top-down? If so my bad, it's not good advice after all.
But if there's a Y component intended to indicate height, I still think it'd be good.
@krystman Closest I could find to what I was thinking of is at 1:10 in this video. Sorry I wish I could find a non-war video, but that's the nature of the subject. No visible gruesomeness at least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPJSsXnd7YI&t=1m10s
There will related Sun videos of other explosions that proceed in various similar, but different, manners. Maybe you can find a good method there if this doesn't suit you. I just think a gray/yellow mix works well rather than yellow->gray.
@krystman Not necessarily dark, but gray or even white. Basically not fiery yellow and orange throughout every frame. See at 1:10 in that video (helps to play at 0.25x) that you get a brief fireball that erupts gray smoke upwards and then dies out somewhere in the middle of it.
Like I said, there are multiple different ways this can go. Here are a few more with timestamps:
0:18 here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xn_reyXARA&t=18s
0:13 here, top-down drone shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cLb-hAR_MY&t=13s
@krystman I think generally you'd start all bright yellow and orange, or even white, and then go for variation as the flame dies out towards the middle or side or even top (could be procedural) while the original sprites turn gray as if extinguished into ash/smoke.
Might be dependent on what's being bombed too.
@Felice Yeah so at the beginning I'm going over the influences I was using. Generally I think we need to distinguish between actual explosions and Hollywood explosions. Real = brief combustion, lots of smoke. Hollywood = focus on long, billowing fireballs
@Felice My code is here
https://github.com/Krystman/lazydevs-pico8-advanced-shmup/blob/555a96795a6fbffbe9da52e84d74407aaa880cd3/expl.p8
As for the Alice, you got to ask her. She's AliceNewtype0079 on Discord
This is a repository of the Lazy Devs Academy Pico-8 Hero Advancved Shmup Tutorial. - lazydevs-pico8-advanced-shmup/expl.p8 at 555a96795a6fbffbe9da52e84d74407aaa880cd3 · Krystman/lazydevs-pico8-adv...
@krystman Ah, luckily she uploaded the .p8 when she uploaded the gif.
Now I will tweak and see if I'm on the right track or if I'm just full of 💩.
I shall report back. Eventually. 😜
Thanks!
Krystian Majewski
Felice
Frosty