Driving Simulator 560

Keep your car on track and try to get as far as possible before time is over. When time is over, the car stops. Use left/right to steer, one button for brake and the other one to restart.

I had a lot of features in my mind for this game. But the 560 characters of code limit nearly kills them all.


https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=37758

This game was made for #TweetTweetJam and contains only 558 characters of code, including art. The code is below:

_set_fps(60)n,x,y,a,b,r,m,l,g,h,p=64,0,0,0,0,20,15,20,btn,mid,{}for i=1,1000 do
p[i]={x=x,y=y}c,d=cos(a),sin(a)
x+=m*c
y+=m*d
a+=b
if(l<i)l+=20 b=(rnd(2)-1)*.01
end
x,y,z,a,w,b,t=-n,-n,0,0,0,.005,9999::_::cls(3)t-=1
if(g(0))a+=b
if(g(1))a-=b
if(g(4) or t<0)w-=.04
if(g(5))run()
w=h(w+.02,4)c,d=cos(a),sin(a)
x+=w*c
y+=w*d
z+=w
for i=1,#p do
q=p[i]e,f=q.x-x,q.y-y
if h(-r,e,128+r)==e and h(-r,f,128+r)==f then
circfill(e,f,r,2)
if(i>2 and i%4<1)o=p[i-2]line(o.x-x,o.y-y,e,f,7)
end
end
if(pget(n,n)==3)w=.1*w+.1
line(n,n,n+5*c,n+5*d,10)
?t.." "..z
flip()goto _
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorSkyBerron
Made withPICO-8
TagsPICO-8, tweettweetjam

Comments

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this was the exact game I was wanting to create if I had the skill.  also just a line for vehicle.  I wanted roads that bend but no sharp corners to keep a nice game flow.  some bends are very  gradual with straight sections.  I would love it if it had a simple drifting capability , that was effected by speed/inertia.   a choice of vertical or horizontal orientation would be nice with car positioned on edge/bottm rather than middle to give more time to react to road change. and other moving cars to doge.

With a budget of 560 chars you get something like this. But with 1K compressed bytes you get something better. Try this one: https://itch.io/jam/pico-1k-2024/rate/2989753 It has got some drifting, 4 different tracks and AI cars, but there's no collision between cars.

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had a look - really impresssive . Some games i bought on itch have multiple carts for more code. I suppose that limits being suitable for the  app.  I really liked the simple line here as it gave you more space to move on the road. its probably not a visually impressive as your second  version.