I think we made something pretty cool here dude! String Quest will become the next big NES Exclusive 🤩😏

@hoopie7172

3 жыл бұрын

Epic

@PolyMars

3 жыл бұрын

easily the best game of 1985

@PolyWho

3 жыл бұрын

I gotta say, very impressive, I can’t even do that myself, Reece and PolyMars have great potential and I hope you two succeed.

@andy010

3 жыл бұрын

Did you say that because of PolyMars forced you? :D

@totallynottimo

3 жыл бұрын

There he is! Reece Geofortnite!

4:39 "Reece drew some spikes, and I made them kill you." So poetic

@Blasterpaster

3 жыл бұрын

i held my computer in the sky and cried because of how inspiring it was

@scoutsrow

2 жыл бұрын

wow i needed the subtitles thanks

@user-mv5ii8ml8j

Жыл бұрын

@@scoutsrow lol

Everybody gangsta until the pixel t-pose starts bass boosting PolyMars out of his seat

@Maxixe-nn1sr

3 жыл бұрын

why stop gangstaing when the pixel tpose starts bass boosting PolyMars out of his seat

@Yuzuki1337

3 жыл бұрын

@@Maxixe-nn1sr For some reason my idiot producer brain thought you wanted to say "gainstaging" and wondered how you managed to mangle that so much 🤣

@Pizmos

3 жыл бұрын

:)

1:20 aw man that hit me in the feels

@Maxb0tbeep

3 жыл бұрын

oh hi rug, didn't expect to see you here :)

@raphaelmorgan2307

2 жыл бұрын

he was such a baby 😭

Polymars: Uses pygame, pico-8, unity, and SDL. Also Polymars: Hey Bruh, checkout Core.

@jebbediahkerman768

3 жыл бұрын

Why would he say no to free money?

@romanmyskovets4093

3 жыл бұрын

@@jebbediahkerman768 Hi Jeb. I thought I killd ya.

@wallabra

3 жыл бұрын

SDL is good. Pygame is not a very serious game platform so it kind of gets a pass, and I'm not very fond of Unity but I suppose it has serious use-cases. C++, on the other hand... Darn you Stroustrup. What did you do to my function pointers and my beloved structs?!

@octagonal8905

3 жыл бұрын

@@SimplyFizz Yeah the problem with python is that it's slow ...

@Meboy-uv5td

3 жыл бұрын

core, aka high end roblox

Pico 8 games have given me some of my favorite browser games. Cool to see you trying it out.

@dillongardner2070

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, some of my favorite games are made with pico-8

@codertommy6883

3 жыл бұрын

@LeoGBA wait w h a t

@codertommy6883

3 жыл бұрын

@LeoGBA no theres a celeste 2? where do i get

"The enemies all have something in common" *explains how they all have a position and all die when attacked by the player*

"remember saying enjoying making games with limitations? well not with core" -Literally talks about one of the most restrictive modern game engines xD

@SamiTheAnxiousBean

3 жыл бұрын

@LeoGBA yeah I know you aren't really allowed to even criticise a product you're sponsored by most of the time Just thought it was funny

@miguelroldao6939

3 жыл бұрын

I think he was referring to the "enjoying" part

@marcobonera838

3 жыл бұрын

When he said that I thought : Well, he should have said " *just* like core"! 😂 Or, in a more LTT fashion: "and speaking of limitations, check our sponsor! Core!"

@darkhuntermini3034

2 жыл бұрын

Isn’t made in unreal engine

@celeste2991

2 жыл бұрын

i checked it out awhile back due to struggling with coding…but dude you can’t even import your own textures

0:55 Oh ya, Mars is gonna throw the knife through the screen to hit Geo.....

As a modder that programs in Lua, yes, tables are basically a solution to everything! Especially using the self method, as I've seen you wisely have

@gaggerblank1554

2 жыл бұрын

__index is useful too and first class functions ;)

@rbarbeats

Жыл бұрын

Lol roblox language

@Atomic_Radiation

10 ай бұрын

@@rbarbeats whats wrong with lua?

@CharlesShorts

9 ай бұрын

lol garry's mod MOD's language@@rbarbeats

top tip for collisions in pico 8: in the tile editor you can assign flags to a tile, then use the fget (i think) function to get the tile flags and check if it has the set "wall" flag you put on it. Saves you having to make a manual tile map table for every level edit: lets go with those likes and that heart!

@tehbeanz5062

3 жыл бұрын

*this also works for spikes!

@PolyMars

3 жыл бұрын

oh cool! I saw you could add flags to sprites and didn't know what they were for, but that would've been a lot easier haha

@ThePolyEarth

3 жыл бұрын

Hello polymars

@tehbeanz5062

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThePolyEarth oh no

@amalirfan

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThePolyEarth cool logo ma'am, your moon looks majestic. I apologise if you're a mister :))

Really cool video! I love the style of pico-8 games, and you made an interesting mechanic.

Threatening people with a knife through a discord call. Surprisingly effective

4:44 the code looks oddly like a gun... It was his subconsious mind reminding him what to do if Reece GeoFortnite didnt cooperate

6:39 Sad Rock :[

The Atari 2600 has 128 bytes of internal RAM and addresses 4 k of straight ROM before bankswitching and no frame buffering. I never want to hear programmers saying Not Enough RAM.

@vlOd_yt

2 жыл бұрын

69 likes nice

@bland9876

2 жыл бұрын

There's an entire video by modern vintage gamer explaining why the switch doesn't have enough RAM for modern games.

@flintfrommother3gaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@bland9876 well it's not the problem of modern games tho, 4 gb of ram is not enough

@BrunodeSouzaLino

2 жыл бұрын

The 2600 had no gpu either. The CPU did everything.

@NaudVanDalen

Жыл бұрын

And for some reason empty GameMaker games are 50 MB in RAM. Literally a black screen is 50 MB.

Can we get Dani? No we have Dani at home Dani at home: *but also talks about the code and is therefore superior*

@ollerius0760

3 жыл бұрын

YES I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THAT!! But I still like PolyMars

@vedamaharaj

3 жыл бұрын

@@ollerius0760 definitely yes

@vedamaharaj

3 жыл бұрын

@HeladeraDragon what do you mean by that?

@LYB4

3 жыл бұрын

@HeladeraDragon dani swears in his videos yet you say he targets kids

@dorito3366

3 жыл бұрын

@HeladeraDragon who

Ah, convincing your friends just like Dani does.

@AidanTheBandit

3 жыл бұрын

They really do have a way with words

@geblordofchaos2965

3 жыл бұрын

With a K N I F E

@burgerfanman

3 жыл бұрын

@@geblordofchaos2965 shhhhhhhh

@nubbyboi6523

Жыл бұрын

@@AidanTheBandit I often find the words “I have your family” particularly compelling

@Basblueyiscool

8 ай бұрын

imagine making juno guys

Great job editing and putting together a great video, it was a pleasure to watch

Fantastic work! Real good submission and great explaination.

For a game made in PICO-8, this is amazing! Now try to do Basic or even 6502 Assembly for the Commodore 64.

@stavros222

Жыл бұрын

Assembly x16 you mean? The one with instructions like sta, stx, sty etc.

@aalpha2530

Жыл бұрын

@@stavros222 I've never heard it called x16, but yes, that is the 6502 he's talking about

poly mars is very friendly just look at his chat with reece! 0:50

I was too busy vibing to the music to pay attention to the enemies

@meteorchrome122

2 жыл бұрын

Jojo fan intensifies

this is a really cool and insightful style of video!

Really fascinating book recommendation for anyone who wants to learn more about retro game development is a book called "I am Error." The book goes into detail about how games were developed for the NES and how limitations were overcame with some really creative solutions. Another one I hear is good (but haven't read myself) is Racing the Beam which covers development for the Atari 2600. Anyways, cool looking game you guys, congratulations!!

@PolyMars

3 жыл бұрын

ooh those sound interesting, I'll definitely check them out!

@ThePolyEarth

3 жыл бұрын

Mars

1:30 PolyMars: Not that far back also polymars: *proceeds to go back further*

7:23 that looks like a gun

@eiadithecoder620

3 ай бұрын

I swear most of the code look like guns

"use switch cases" "Its in Lua" "Oh, im sorry."

You're super talented. I'm 38 and still feel so behind, but seeing this makes me want to get so much better.

Nice video dude!

your videos are incredibly interesting ngl i really enjoy them

Dude, your videos are awesome!

i love how poly added giorno's theme in the video and it fits in so perfectly

that sound at 0:43 got me every time

I love this channel yet it’s so underrated. I will watch your channel with great intrest, Or whatever it says.

I loveeeee pico-8 it's absolutely incredible

Heyo! Whats that thing you guys used to like draw and plan stuff together?

I also remember making a game in 1985 using Lua

Great video as always

@ThePolyEarth

3 жыл бұрын

Yes i agree

This was such a cool idea for a video

Pico-8 is a really cool ide-type thing (yeah idk what to call it) and I’m glad you tried it.

@FakeLLama23

3 жыл бұрын

Fantasy console

just from the title, i already knew that it was pico-8

Awesome videos, keep it up!

Wow! Great stuff, dude! I wish I was like you 😭

pico-8 is cool

@SpoiledBread24

3 жыл бұрын

Hi! Love ur vids

@ydertgf

3 жыл бұрын

ok

@ambrosxa

3 жыл бұрын

good morning

@MagicCoder

3 жыл бұрын

U upload vid 3 mins ago, but u type dis comment 7 mins ago. How? Ur sis

@MagicCoder

3 жыл бұрын

I meant sus

9:14 how do I play on my 3ds? I didn't find any button to download a .cia file on the game's page

@eiadithecoder620

3 ай бұрын

... You just need a browser/pico8 emulator (And the card PNG is the actual game, yeah it's weird but pretty cool)

3:20 Polymars realizing the magic of lua

I love the "pigo-8" console and all the games for it. It's so cool

While PICO-8 is fun, it's a far cry from being anything close to old school game programming. Even when using new-ish game programming libraries like DirectX5 or 7 which have more graphically advanced features than the PICO-8, it was absurdly harder than this, no comparison at all. Something that is closer and can be done with current hardware is making games in something like an ESP32 or ESP8266 (if you're up to the challenge) but that would only give you a taste, and from there you could go to some 8 bit microcontroller, although that wouldn't emulate the quirks of dealing with custom graphics chips older games used.

me, a Lua developer, seeing someone not use metatables : 😭😭😭😭

@darltrash

3 жыл бұрын

Why would you? I have made entire engines in lua without a single metatable

@sillyultroid

3 жыл бұрын

@@darltrash well if you are doing a functional style then it's not an issue, but he is doing object oriented style so it will be a memory management hell

@darltrash

3 жыл бұрын

@@sillyultroid nah not really, you dont really need all that crap and consider this is pico-8 which was designed to have limited processing and memory, so normal tables are just fine

1:52 *i can hear the people at roblox filing a lawsuit*

the way you just inserted that sponsor was amazing

0:04 the left is a Dani reference OH YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT KARLSON IS? KARLSON IS JUST A LITTLE GAME I'M WORKING ON-

Friendly chat? I died laughing 😆

Dude, if you don't have another project in mind, might I suggest programing for the NES? I would love to see you do more 8 bit shenanigans

i started watching your videos a day ago, epico

not even april fools, just plain cool

8:32 so the real ending was about myself and how I can be who I want to be? Evangelion Is a true beauty isn't it 😁

@jaysolo8256

3 жыл бұрын

If you saw this reply then *congrats*

What courses did you learn to make these! Just found your channel, and I already subscribed! Please let me know which courses you did in order to reach this level. Will be extremely helpful :)

i think theres a line-circle/square collision function already, no need to loop though points. game looks rad! great job!

I’ve used pico-8 I genuinely enjoyed it lol. I like pico-8 for a challenge and I like unity for high quality games. Still waiting for core on Linux :P

@dot32

3 жыл бұрын

try love2D for higher definition games that are still written in lua! :D

when will we get rock for smash

great vid keep it coming

Im a big fan!! your the best

if core is so good why don't you use it...

@jumpergamer1913

2 жыл бұрын

To be honest, the game engine isn't exactly aligned with the *CORE* content of his channel

I haven't seen enough of the video to comment anything bUT IM DOING IT ANYWAY >:D

@Valenslays

3 жыл бұрын

how dare thy :0

Dude love your vids

I love the retro style of pico 8 games. How did you find coding in the editor?

I love your channel so much, and I’ve been trying to learn how to code in c++. I’m taking a course on KZread cause I’m broke, and I was wondering, have you used c++ in any projects? (Besides that alien one I think) If so, what exactly did you do?

TIC 80 fantasy console is cool too (despite taking too much idea from Pico 8). BTW, at 8:12, you mentionned writing in code the coordonate of player spawn and enemy original position : wouldn't be easier to just use the tilemap for that?

Loved the video!

Nice, I have a suggestion tho, WHAT IF YOU MAKE A GAME IN THE IPHONE SHORTCUTS APP

Kinda curious about a further in-depth look at functions within tables, never seen such a thing before and I wonder if it's a beneficial option for saving on tokens.

Hi! I am currently working on a top down rig dungeon crawler and I would like to know what software you used to plab the levels. Thank you!

"Rust is for embedded systems" rhethoric vs reality of a functioning retro game in Lua. This is pretty amazing.

seriously underrated

Hi, I know that you will probably not answer, but who knows. Could you make a video talking about how you got to your level of programming? All the journey, courses, books or whatever, how did you learn everything that you know and an effective way of doing it. If you don’t wanna make a video about it, if you have time, I would appreciate text version of your answer. I’m just so hooked to programming overall, but I don’t know where to learn all this stuff, I’m just doing some courses, watching videos etc. Love your videos and thank you in advance!

Simple and effective. Congrats!

5:35 It's a rock *Patrick* "Yep, he's got nerves of steel!"

"and when you collide with a wall, I check if it's a chest" Computer Science moment

@U20E0

Жыл бұрын

“then we fork the child”

700th comment! :) Great devlog and string quest seems very promising. Did you ever continue this project?

how did you start this tho? like where in the pico8 website is the button to the coding place?

invite for next jam, I would love to go back to develop games, my big achievement was the first star wars game on mobile :), nice video! loved pico8

When you uploaded your game to the web to play, did you use WebAssembly?

bru i just subscribed a few minutes ago and already a new upload

I just wanted to point out, you could have used the second "joystick" that PICO-8 has for true 2-player. You can fork the project and make a copy with this mechanic.

New polymars video pog

6:11 homebrew?

When polymars uploads a new video: *clicks fast*

hey nice game! Btw what website did you two used here? 6:46

@WD_RatLad

Жыл бұрын

Yes.

When the most replayed part is immediately after the ad ❤️

5:01 New Final Fantasy enemy roster looking good.

yeah, lua is data oriented. but it's actually amazing to code in with some graphics library

I love this. One day, you will be a big content creator. Keep on expressing yourself in your content; I really enjoyed how organized and to the point this video is. And its a ride that gives you a little bit of fun along the ride.

I started learning how to code so that I could make a game. At one point I just stopped wanting to learn. When I saw this video I don't know why but now I want to continue learning. Thx :)

Hi I love your videos, and I am also a high schooler interested in getting in to game development! Do you have any tips or a discord server or something

0:30 "i suck at pixel art look at my garbage" *shows stylized pill doggo* bastards lied to me

yo, super cool work! i recently bought something similar to pico8, and this feels inspiring, btw, i know is too late for feedback but it would had cool if the spikes had "blood" to represent them as spikes, at first i didn't get what it was

CONGRATS, on the sponsorship, I know I was a bit salty at you for being so successful while making ok'ish code, but it's much harder making good videos.

The rock enemy is written so beautifully, this enemy is going to make for some really amazing, interesting gameplay