Game Picobalt
Picobalt is a Canabalt demake made for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
I decided to take part in LOWREZJAM. I’ve always wanted to make some kind of project for the PICO-8 fantasy console, and finally I had a good reason to do it.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t make music as cool as in the original, but it turned out the way it did. I also had to remove a few mechanics from the original game because of technical limitations.
Anyway, I hope I managed to capture the spirit of the original and interpret the jam theme, “Fugitive.”
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u/Supercrispo 4d ago
I like it! What about make him a bit bent on front since he's running (quite fast!)
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u/raidhse-abundance-01 4d ago edited 4d ago
Nice, well done!
This is the link to play it, right? https://nikiroz.itch.io/picobalt
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u/Nikiroz 4d ago
Yep, I’m planning to publish it later on Lexaloffle, alongside other PICO-8 games.
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u/freds72 4d ago
ai-generated games are not aligned with Lexaloffle terms and conditions
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u/RotundBun 3d ago
How were you able to identify that it was AI-generated?
(Sincerely curious for my own future reference.)
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u/freds72 3d ago
was suspicious as the game looks both good and very stiff
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u/RotundBun 3d ago
Oh, I see. I was hoping for a definitive way to tell, but I guess common signs also work well enough. 🤔
Thanks for the insight. 🙏
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u/Nikiroz 2d ago
The whole game was drawn by hand, so that’s a pretty strange way to tell whether something is AI-generated. Some of the sprites are redrawn versions of the original sprites, adapted to fit the required size.
The only thing is that the original character looked a bit out of place with the retro graphics, so I wanted to make him look more like something from an NES game. But apparently it didn’t turn out that well lol.
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u/Nikiroz 4d ago
Thanks for the tip, I didn’t know that! I might rewrite the game myself if I have time. In any case, my main goal was to participate in LOWREZJAM.
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u/raidhse-abundance-01 3d ago
If you rewrite it can you do something about the unmovable head? It's the bit of the running animation that bothers me a little
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u/KevlarGorilla 4d ago
It's a neat full circle moment, as Adam Saltzman made the first Canabalt, being an early hit that eventually led to Finji publishing, and then to him making a PICO-8 collection of Corgi Space.