Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 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/b3ch3kxb1y2jum4/shmup.p8?dl=0
👉 github.com/Krystman/lazydevs-pico8-basic-shmup/blob/f22dfcf8c8177ec894ab0bbe0d1aed4cb702b902/shmup.p8

Pico-8 Cheat Sheet
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00:00 Intro
01:10 Tuning pickup frequency
03:56 Thinking about pickups
06:49 Pickup logic
10:28 1UP sound
17:25 Floaters
24:52 Centered PRINT()
28:30 Tweaking floaters
31:52 Thinking about bombs
33:15 Bomb logic
36:06 Implementing a spread
42:04 Narrowing the spread
46:04 Beefing up the bomb
51:04 A message from the future
52:25 Doggie Zone
55:09 Ko-fi
55:19 Outro

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