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Quick question: do lode runners count as labyrinth puzzles? Anyways, quite a helpful guide!

now sure if you addressed this later, but you can save quite a lot of tokens in the col function. here's my solution: (it saves about 46 tokens!) function col(x1,y1,w1,h1,x2,y2,w2,h2) return x1+w1>x2 and x1<x2+w2 and y1+h1>y2 and y1<y2+h2 end

Thank you for covering shmups

I wanna say, puzzle games and tetris are both incredibly challenging games to make. Tetris has some wild mechanical requirements in regards to rotation and making blocks fit and fall properly. Puzzle games are by far one of the most difficult genres to make. They require an insane amount of playtesting and level design experience, neither of which new devs are likely to have. They may have one simple mechanic, but puzzles are about solving problems and thinking outside the box, meaning its way more likely for a player to really push at those edge cases. In order to make a decent puzzle without insane effort, the best thing I can think of is something like a pin-pull game or maybe a rotation-based puzzle where you find a path to the end, like the hacking mini game in bioshock. I want to add snake as a game option here. I've also made a super basic turn-based text rpg as my first game (it was in java and i hated dealing with java GUI so anything to save me from actually drawing to the screen was a winner) and I'd recommend that as well. I'm honestly getting a lot of mixed signals about starting out from this channel. I'm not sure what kind of "first game" this is supposed to be. I had the same issue with the list of genres to not start out with as well. These genres seemed to be geared towards a person's first time working in a game engine, but there's a lot of discussion about what an audience would expect from the game, which I would argue is not a great way to approach early game dev. Not to mention that puzzles, in my opinion, aren't really a great entry point for game dev, unless you already have experience with making other forms of puzzles. I'm still fairly new to game dev, but I've made a couple small projects, tested out a few engines (as well as the experience of not having one) and I've followed some early tutorials as well. A one-button game, shoot em' up or snake would be my recommendation if you're looking for tutorials to help get you started. Idle games are also a pretty good option as well. I know you argued against tower defense games, but I would argue that a super basic, pathless tower defense could work well as a second game, since there are a few extra moving parts. I'd also argue that it's better to finish very basic mechanics and move on rather than trying to truly finish everything you make when starting out. Not every project has to be a full game. I would suggest making a few projects where you can play with mechanics like power-ups or random enemy spawning or melee damage vs ranged damage or different enemy types. You'll learn a lot more that way and won't have the pressure of making a fully finished game. It's good to finish the game loop of your first game, just to give yourself an idea of what it's like, but I don't think its necessary to finish a game in order to be proud of what you made beyond that. I'd be proud of what I'm working on right now if I dropped it today, because it's still something I made and its the furthest I've gotten thusfar.

It would be great if you could teach development for the Playdate as well! I think it falls within the same niche, and for a new programmer like me its really hard to learn how to be able to make my own games for that platform. And you're just the best teacher I've ever encountered!

Actually… 16:00 Gradius ‘does’ have bombs… they are the ‘blue’ power-ups that you pick up that clear all snaller enemies on the screen, and damage larger enemies/stations. However, they offer no i-frames, and can’t be stocked. I digress… AMAZING video. Thanks for this! \m/, 😊 ,\m/

*INSTANT* sub. With being an avid fan of shooters (what I remember calling the genre before there was a real need for distinction from, at least, first-person shooters) AND being a ‘Day 1’ Transformers fan, the chapter/guest transitions AND the coverage in this video speak to me *at my core*. The guests and overall effort is AMAZING here. EXCELLENT!!! Shout to Zanac (Atari’s Space Invaders, and then, Zanac, were how I ‘cut my teeth’) and pretty much anything in the ‘Aleste’ realm… AWESOME… cheers! \m/, 😊 ,\m/

I always recommend any Raizing game (once you become decently comfortable with shmups) to learn how to explore scoring systems, rank, etc.

why not simply parameterize the radius instead of creating a duplicate function? "DRY" principle will also save on tokens. 33:35

The first words of this video got me like "It's time to kick video games, and chew gum... And i'm all out of gum."

Man I wish I could experience Pico 8 on Android. (besides emulation) it looks cool I wish I could check it out.

Maybe the genre they pick seem bad because nobody knows to teach them properly on those genres? Or maybe it is a lack of proper genre terminology which is something very common these days as everyone has a say on and about genres but most people fail to understand the term genre as such and so they come up with run of the mill bullshit terms. 1. No. One button games are intuitively boring. Make it at least two buttons. Because then you can create simple platformers more effectively or fun games like Epic Loons. 2. Like that one.Easy to understand mechanics. Most of the time. But how many get as creative as things like Gradius and R-Type? 3. Never as a starting genre. Never. Tetris can be complicated to program properly. That is the reason why so many successful Tetris denominators exist. 4. Labyrinth type games are boring. 5. Cool idea but can also be very complicated. You can range from remote control type racing games like Micro Machines or totally complex like Gran Tourismo.

Just a heads up to folks that you can reduce the overhead by half when using ipairs (or pairs) instead of all(). for _, bul in ipairs(buls) do spr(1, bul.x, bul.y) end This will let you draw 2000 bullets

Enough with the typing sound

This was an awesome watch & listen! Thank you for the interview and insights. Love Blue Revolver! My favorite shmup for sure.

To think animating could be so straightforward. Thank you so much for this tutorial!

I have watched to this video 5x and even if I think I got what the map does, i think I don't. I simply don't get the For loop on drawing the map on every _draw. I am making a game with big maps and each player have a different map, playing split screen. Of course it is a challenging thing. I am trying to make it load the stage in the map, in a map portion, and then showing it.

But 12...

The tool may not work well, but the progress is appreciated 🎉

How i got over anxiety about coding is realizing that the "right thing to do" is just whatever gets the desired result.

I wonder what shmup has the best story…

how abt the miyuu mini plus

the games that got me into wanting to make a schmup is indie dev's Masayuki Ito's Bullet Hell Monday, and .Decluster Zero, they both have their own kind of feel i havent been able to replicate with other schmups, probably because it was on mobile before getting steam ports, and were hella accessable

These are great videos and I'm learning a lot from them, but perhaps in the future you could jabber a bit less? I'm sure a lot of people here will disagree but I seriously feel like this video could've been at least 10 - 15 minutes shorter had you just gotten straight to the point. I understand the importance of keeping it simple for complete beginners but I still feel you gotta speed it up little. I had to watch this video at 1.5x speed to kinda get through all the fluff.

Hey, just figured I would point out that an unrelated video seems to have snuck itself into the end of your playlist for the streams :P

it looks so cool i wish it was a full-fledged 64-bit os

Wow pico 8 has tools now?

Great!

Great! Altho I thout this would be for the "Game over" state.

PLSSS make a new video

Great! 33:34 the propelers usually go on the upside of the drones, no? I had difficulty understanding that it was one of those quadcopters drones at first.

Do you have the project to extend the game or pico 8 is to limited ?

My newbie experience was all ovber the place. I started developing an RPG as my first game (fortunately I didn't have to "code" anything), then when I needed to code went to a 4 week development of a rhythm game. That thingy was not an expandable idea, and lacked optimization, but it was a nice start. My next project after failing at an attempt of a HearthStone-type card game, I went to a PvZ style Tower Defense, and I never imagined that my bigger struggles were with colliders,damage rates and goddamn calculus of all things. I learned the hard way Tower Defense games were complex, but I'm having a blast developing it. (P.S: I'd also add card games to the list, basic things can be already hard to code, and let's not mention then chaos it'll become the more mechanics you insert)

Not done the video yet but some thoughts on cave vs. "pseudo"-cave. If it's something you care about this can actually be an accessibility issue. Some people simple can't button mash that fast or for that long. Heck, my hands are perfectly fine-other than not being as young as they used to be-and I have trouble playing button mashers for very long because they make my hands hurt. In that regard, "pseudo" is a clear win. More people will be able to play and enjoy the game. Tying into that, you said you want to find reasons for the player to stop pressing the fire button and you said the missiles feel more like a secondary attack than a bomb. I think you can lean into that and let it be a secondary attack similar to Gun Vein. While you're holding the button the missiles charge up and you fire them by releasing the button. (Edit: ha! this is why I should watch the whole video before commenting!) That opens up some strategic play too. Do you fire as soon as they're charged or wait until there are more enemies on screen to do more damage? I don't play a ton of shooters so maybe that's actually really common but whatever. And a suggestion for the missile animation: Drop all the missiles as a cluster and let them fall behind the ship for a few frames like you're dropping cargo or something. Then have all the missiles simultaneously ignite and shoot forward towards their targets. In my head the "cluster" would actually just be a single missile sprite with all the missiles spreading out from that point. I think the slow backwards movement followed by ignition and rapid acceleration would make them seem even snappier than they really are. Looks good in my head anyway.

The options rotation looks really cool, only surpassed by the rotations of the hoodies on this video! 🤣

I have a Pico-8 handheld, my phone

So does that mean that you're gonna port your games over?

The entire yt shmup pantheon in a single video :D

can you sell a pico-8 game? no, yes, maybe? celeste:

Great video

My first thought on cows as powerups was that you might raise them up into your ship UFO-style from the surface. ;) The bubbles work quite nicely, tho! It's been a great series.

I absolutely love how the third prototype (with Balatro missiles) looks and works! Everything is starting to come together, this project is such a joy to follow :)

Those missiles looks amazing!! I loved the cow bubbles too. Now the game seems to have cows al around.

This is underrated!!!!