So it's begun, (well it actually began 2 weeks ago but only getting round to uploading this little snippet. I'm easily distracted by all the cool pixelart and micro games others are posting on here ha-ha) So my first ever game is actually going to be based of a 10 minute coin dropper video by @Casey Faris combined with 16-tiles game by @Michael England that inspired me, and of course ChatGPT. I asked ChatGPT ages ago what game styles would you recommend to begin with for learning Pico-8 and it said 1. Top down dodge game 2. Single screen platformer game (No scrolling yet) 3. A breakout / Arkanoid style game 4. Tiny shoot'em up game (Shmup) So this will be my journeyman steps and i will update you all along the way. Now...I've used chatgpt to help me write and understand bits of code, especially the collision detection (AABB) Axis Aligned Bounding Boxes as i really want to get to grips with that than Map & Tiles collision detection (I will be focusing on Map & Tile detection on project 2.) I don't intend on being a "Script Kiddie" as i do want to understand how code works but feel free to ask me if you wanna know how i did something, i may be able to explain how i learnt it as i've struggled to really wrap my head around some bits (collision detection and tables is starting to make sense just need more practice using them) but I'm slowly getting there ha-ha. So here it is, not a long GIF (had to ChatGPT on how to record a GIF on PICO8 ha-ha) and it's not very exciting but the main thing is i know exactly what is going on in the background - pixelart will come later. Enjoy and "Get practicing!"

Used LICEcap on my Mac to create moving gif (hope it moves). If someone knows of a better solution, please share.

"Flaming hot" dog counting those hotdogs

Got carried away. By changing the two sprite-numbers I can now change to different ships. Awesome lesson, thanks.

I'm working on an arkanoid clone. Mechanics are mostly done, now I'd like to focus on the sprites and sfx. What do you think about the paddle jump or laser shots?