Uploaded July 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/sc3frs604z9ek9j/shmup.p8?dl=0
👉 github.com/Krystman/lazydevs-pico8-basic-shmup/blob/0127feba473055d148b5baaa62471e911303fc36/shmup.p8

Pico-8 Cheat Sheet
👉 lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=28207

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00:00 Intro
01:58 Spawning a line of enemies
09:38 Spawning a line multiple times
12:58 Spawning different types of enemies
16:28 Multi-dimensional arrays
23:59 Using 2D arrays to spawn enemies
39:49 Enemy missions
50:32 Doggie Zone
52:22 Ko-fi
52:47 Outro

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