Unleashed
"Unleashed" is an infinite runner for the Pico8 where you play as a dog getting chased by its owner. The further you get without getting caught, and the more bones you collect along the way, the higher your score. As simple as that.
How to play
- X/Z to jump
- Up/Down arrows to move
About the game
This is the first game I make for this console, and its development has had quite a lot of changes of direction, so I am not super happy with the final result, let alone the code, which is a total mess. Nonetheless, this has been a super fun challenge that has made me appreciate how incredible this console is and how talented the developers making games for it are. Making this game was a blast!
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Really fun game, very polished.
The only downside I see is there isn’t a reason to get out of the middle lane. I like on the top lane, there are places the player can’t move through and must change lanes. But on the 2 road lanes, all I need to worry about is jumping. Perhaps if there were a type of car that could not be jumped over, forcing the player to change lanes. Just a thought.
Thanks! Completely fair point. In fact, I already thought of it: my idea was to add accidents and/or protesters blocking the road sometimes, but I ran out of tokens because the code I wrote for the game is horrendous 😅 (Pico8 limits how much code your game can have).
To compensate a little, sometimes there are clusters of bones on the sidewalk, which I think might incentivise the player to move there momentaneously. But I reckon that's definitely not enough, and if code tokens were not an obstacle, I would have added blockers on the road lanes to force the user to move.