Using the teachings from spawn point lesson 5 and a bit of reading of the Pico-8 manual I've made a bunch of tiles for Gary to respond to. It kind of reminds me of old point& click adventure games, where you would type "LOOK AT" to get your protag to react to things. Makes me think about Gary's world and what kind of adventures he could go on.

So.. I learned that Pico* does not autosave. And had to do some of the code again. Shame.. Not enough energy for something new.... but dit some drawing with my oldest to keep het every day habit alive. (He wants to have a racing game, I want to do a game about a day on the helpdesk)

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

Does this count as an idle game? I think it does. I combined the spider simulator animation lesson with this homework assignment to create an animation of a dog eating the hot dogs. I find that slightly disobeying the homework and adding to it helps my creativity going, and practice fundamentals. :D

I've made a Gary, and to challenge myself this time I've made additional sprites so Gary looks in the direction that he's moving towards! Might be a tad tricky to see in this tiny GIF but there you have it! :D