
Blitzar
With your trusty spacecraft chart a huge galaxy! One star down, 16383 more to go!
Controls
- Arrow keys to move your ship.
- Move to the edge of the screen to fly to another star.
- Each time you visit a new star, your exploration percentage goes up.
Code
q={}s=128x=9y=63pal({-15,1,-13,-4,12},1)b=0v=0j=0k=0g=0h=0e,u,w=srand,circfill,rnd::_::p=btn()j+=(p\2%2-p%2)/4k+=(p\8%2-p\4%2)/4e(t())for i=0,400do
n=w(s)m=w(s)circ(n,m,1,abs(pget(n,m)-1))end
camera(v,b)v*=.8b*=.8e(r)for i=0,99do
n=w(s)m=w(s)pset(n,m,5)end
l=0for i=0,w(9)do
a=w()+t()/i/9f=i<1and w(3)+9or 1+w(i)u(l*cos(a)+63,l*sin(a)+63-i,f,7)l+=f+w(9)+5end
x+=j
y+=k
if(x<0or x>s)g+=sgn(j)v=s*-sgn(j)x%=s
if(y<0or y>s)h+=sgn(k)b=s*-sgn(k)y%=s
?(#q/4^7*100).."%",2,2
r=g+s*h
for i in all(q)do
if(i==r)goto e
end
add(q,r)::e::u(x,y,1,7)j*=.9k*=.9flip()goto _| Status | Released |
| Platforms | HTML5 |
| Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (6 total ratings) |
| Author | Munro |
| Genre | Simulation |
| Made with | PICO-8 |
| Tags | Exploration, PICO-8, Pixel Art, Retro, Singleplayer, Space, Space Sim |

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This is amazing, and kind-of hypnotically beautiful!!!
Cool star system generation! I've got a lot of percents left to go...
Great lord! This is a good looking game.
Do you have a non-minimized version of the p8 to share for learning purposes?
not before you asked!
known_stars={} num=128 px=63 py=9 pal({-15,1,-13,-4,12},1) cx=0 cy=0 cam_v_x=0 cam_v_y=0 p_v_x=0 p_v_y=0 mx=0 my=0 _srand,_circfill,_rnd=srand,circfill,rnd ::_:: --dale's four direction control handler _btn=btn() p_v_x+=(_btn\2%2-_btn%2)/4 p_v_y+=(_btn\8%2-_btn\4%2)/4 --[[ create a seed from time so the background works ]]-- _srand(t()) --[[ magic part: draw a circ at a random position with a reduced color of that pixel 400 times clears the screen but creates a nice fade ]]-- for i=0,400do rx=_rnd(num) ry=_rnd(num) circ(rx,ry,1,abs(pget(rx,ry)-1)) end --camera velocity update camera(cx,cy) cx*=.8 cy*=.8 --randomness is set to the system seed _srand(r) --draw a bunch of dots as background stars for i=0,99do rx=_rnd(num) ry=_rnd(num) _circfill(rx,ry,0,5) end --[[ star system generation: -pick between 1 and 9 bodies -give each a random angle from the center -draw them -add their distance+size+rnd to the distance of the next body ]]-- l=0 for i=0,_rnd(9)do a=_rnd()+t()/i/9 f=i<1and _rnd(5)+5or _rnd(i) _circfill(l*cos(a)+63,l*sin(a)+63-i,f,7) l+=f+_rnd(9)+4 end --add player velocity to their pos px+=p_v_x py+=p_v_y --when player goes off screen add a camera offset and change their system coridinate if(px<0or px>num)mx+=sgn(p_v_x)cx=num*-p_v_x if(py<0or py>num)my+=sgn(p_v_y)cy=num*-p_v_y ?(#known_stars/4^7*100).."% "..mx.." "..my,2,2 --generates unique seed for 128x128 star systems r=mx+num*my --loop the player around the screen px%=num py%=num --draw player and reduce their velocity _circfill(px,py,1) p_v_x*=.9 p_v_y*=.9 flip() --check if current star is known. --if it finds it, skips to the start of the loop --if not add it to the list. for i=1,#known_stars do if(known_stars[i]==r)goto _ end add(known_stars,r)goto _*edit* also should mention still tweaking the code. this version differs from the one in html/desc rn
Awesome. Thanks!