Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Let's develop a Shmup in Pico-8 one video at a time. A tutorial for complete beginners.

Code the beginning of this episode
👉 dropbox.com/s/h2adnwdyn9u3itb/shmup.p8?dl=0
👉 github.com/Krystman/lazydevs-pico8-basic-shmup/blob/fd0a2a1379ac8a1ecd0330d5fbbe19c3af9174a2/shmup.p8

Enemy sprites
👉 dropbox.com/s/e5onhx9ptlpz8o9/enemies.png?dl=0

Code the end of this episode (including the new sprites)
👉 dropbox.com/s/v5h3iidr840yx8t/shmup.p8?dl=0

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00:00 Intro
01:38 Tweaking Game Over
07:38 Importing Sprites
15:30 Expanding the Enemy System
20:50 Spawining a 2nd Enemy Type
24:26 New Animation System
32:36 Bigger Sprites
38:33 Todo List
40:41 Doggie Zone
42:29 Ko-fi
42:40 Outro

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