2DArray

12 July

back to the playdate for more prototyping and software-rendering shenanigans

19 Nov 2025

what do we call tweetjams now? (dunno. 248 bytes) #pico8 ?"\^!5f10█▒1⬇️3⬅️;⌂♥7" ::_::flip()cls()w=t()/8for i=0,700do for j=0,1do srand(i)f=w+j/120g=i*.618a=g+sin(f+g+rnd()/9)y=cos(f+g)r=sqrt(1-y*y)x=r*cos(a)z=r*sin(a)h=120/(z+3)u=x*h+64v=y*h+64if(j<1)p=u q=v else line(p,q,u,v,rnd(9)+1) end end goto _

14 Aug 2025

haven't posted in a while but i'm working on another thing for the playdate

adding a long trail behind the player to highlight your path through the level

haven't posted in a while but i'm working on another thing for the playdate

14 Aug 2025

social media has reencoded my gif, broken the framerate, and made it look choppy, but uh the game runs at 50fps

8 Apr 2025

new mathematical formula just dropped

30 Mar 2025

i will not be taking any further questions at this time

2DArray reposted

Chris Wade

@luckshotgames.com

3 Mar 2025

Very excited to share that Big Hops' first public demo will be at Day of the Devs' pre-GDC event at the Midway on March 16th! Most of our team will be around for GDC, so get in touch if you're interested in doing an interview or playing the demo.

youtube.comTrackminia TrailerYouTube video by Eli Piilonen (2DArray)

28 Jan 2025

Trackminia is available now, only on the Playdate! play.date/games/trackm... www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NAt...

mastodon.gamedev.place2DArray (@2DArray@mastodon.gamedev.place)Attached: 1 video messing around with the playdate again

28 Jan 2025

if you're curious about how this game was made, from (pretty much) start to end, then boy-howdy do i have a giant mastodon thread for you mastodon.gamedev.place/@2DArray/112...

16 Jan 2025

releasing on january 28th!

rae@rae.wtf

some fresh key art for @2darray.bsky.social's upcoming #playdate game, trackminia

trying another #playdate idea: guy with a candle/lantern quite noisy, but it has soft shadows with correct penumbra behavior, and runs at a stable 30fps on the device!

working more on spider-behavior and finally adding some sound effects. the sound isn't particularly _good_ yet, but it exists, at least!

6 Jan 2025

sounds for a swarm-o-roaches

trying another #playdate idea: guy with a candle/lantern quite noisy, but it has soft shadows with correct penumbra behavior, and runs at a stable 30fps on the device!

reached a fun milestone in scenario-authoring today!

21 Dec 2024

pathfinding for large agents: the spider patrols by default and chases you when you're in a place that it can reach (it can't fit through smaller doorways) eventually this will have some stealthy line-of-sight stuff, but for now the spider just has magic awareness

2DArray reposted

#gamedev

trying another #playdate idea: guy with a candle/lantern quite noisy, but it has soft shadows with correct penumbra behavior, and runs at a stable 30fps on the device!

started adding support for a moving camera - this is harder than usual in this game, because of the lighting system! getting more and more interested in making the whole game one continuous/seamless map, instead of doing room-transitions...

9 Dec 2024

went down a rabbit-hole thinking about how to get the ambient light level to change as you moved long distances, ended up with a baked lightmap

trying another #playdate idea: guy with a candle/lantern quite noisy, but it has soft shadows with correct penumbra behavior, and runs at a stable 30fps on the device!

kinda dry, but i've been making a custom language for dialogue/scenario authoring for the past few days. sorta like yarn spinner, where you can mix "coding-script" logic and "theater-script" dialogue. it's finally executing some code! video of this script running in the next post

4 Dec 2024

video of what happens when running the script from the previous post. currently it just prints stuff to the console, but i'll get into proper in-game dialogue rendering soon works in a traditional way: source text -> lexer -> parser -> AST -> bytecode

30 Nov 2024

#pico8 flurry, 274 bytes ?"\^!5f10076=1▒" s={}::_::cls()for i=0,2do add(s,{x=rnd(130),y=-10,d=1+rnd(5),u=0,v=0})end for i,p in pairs(s)do p.u=(p.u+rnd(.3)-.16)*.98p.v=(p.v+rnd(.4))*.8line(p.x,p.y,p.x+p.u,p.y+p.v,p.d)p.x+=p.u/p.d p.x-=flr(p.x/130)*130p.y+=p.v/p.d if(p.y>130)del(s,p) end flip()goto _

27 Nov 2024

here's an oldie #pico8 cls(6)m=8192?"shit",3,3,1 memcpy(0,m*3,m)::_::cls()w=-t()/2rect(36,54,37,127,2)for x=0,60do a=x/45 for y=0,30do c=sget(x/3,y/3)+(x+y)%2+.2p=a*(sin(x/20+w)+cos(y/16+w))q=a*(cos(x/23+w)+sin(y/19+w))u=x+p v=y+q+a*7circfill(u+39,v+54,1,c+p/3-q/3)end end flip()goto _

2DArray reposted

DelphiX

@delphix4855.bsky.social

24 Nov 2024

This is so cool that I had to try it on my CRT monitor! I shrunk the glow a bit so that the edges of the Pico-8 border wouldn’t cut it off and look a bit ugly. First image is in full screen, second is 1x size.

2DArray@2darray.bsky.social

#pico8 gas giant (204 bytes) ?"\^!5f100█ˇ☉8🅾️◆?7" ::_::x=rnd(4)-2y=rnd(4)-2d=x*x+y*y c=max(2-d/4)if(d<1)z=sqrt(1-d)c=2+(1.5+(x-y+z)*2+abs((y+sin(atan2(x,z)*8+t()/8)/14-z/4)%.4-.2)*5)*(1-(1-z)^2) pset(64+x*32,64+y*32,c+rnd())goto _

trying another #playdate idea: guy with a candle/lantern quite noisy, but it has soft shadows with correct penumbra behavior, and runs at a stable 30fps on the device!

fiddling with another type of creepy-crawler today

23 Nov 2024

third type of bug: little roaches that get scared away by your lantern

23 Nov 2024

#pico8 ?"\^!5f101😐<😐1🐱2🅾️◆?7♥웃8☉2" ::_::u=rnd(128)v=rnd(128)g=u-99h=v-64d=max(20,sqrt(g*g+h*h))c=9+d/20+rnd() if(v>65)p=v-64z=120/(v-64)x=(u-64)/p d=sqrt(x*x+z*z)s=z/d+x/d/4w=(z+sin(x/3+t()/8)+rnd())%4c=w+(c-w)*min(z/40+s^14/4,1) pset(u,v,c)goto _

trying another #playdate idea: guy with a candle/lantern quite noisy, but it has soft shadows with correct penumbra behavior, and runs at a stable 30fps on the device!

trying some ambient occlusion - i'm doing it in an unusuable bruteforce way for now, but i like how it looks enough that it feels like it'll be worthwhile to find a smarter way to do it

21 Nov 2024

starting to work on a first enemy type (video contains a creepy-crawler)

trying another #playdate idea: guy with a candle/lantern quite noisy, but it has soft shadows with correct penumbra behavior, and runs at a stable 30fps on the device!

for some reason i can't post video replies in this thread anymore lol. maybe just a bug in the site, will try again later. here's a screenshot for now: normal mapping for floors, highlights for lit faces of walls, ambient light for the more relaxed scenes

18 Nov 2024

making a map editor, partly to make it faster to set up rooms, but also so i can auto-generate these red sectors... sectors are always rectangles, so any two points inside the same sector are guaranteed to have line-of-sight to each other. this should allow a much faster raycasting strategy!

trying another #playdate idea: guy with a candle/lantern quite noisy, but it has soft shadows with correct penumbra behavior, and runs at a stable 30fps on the device!

a clip showing the penumbras more clearly - the shadow's edge is softer when standing very close to the shadowcasting corner, and gets sharper as the light gets farther away. it's a "real" area-light!

12 Nov 2024

regular people: agile is an adjective corporate people: Agile is a noun the scrum website's blog:

12 Nov 2024

the best part of Agile was when he said "IT'S AGILIN' TIME" and Agiled all over those guys

trying out video-upload since apparently it works now! here's my (almost finished) racing game "Trackminia" for the Playdate handheld console the game usually relies on heavy dithering (Playdate has a 1-bit screen with high DPI), this is using a greyscale exporter that i made for trailer purposes

15 Sept 2024

here's some regular gameplay footage, as it'd display on the real device - the dithering does look like full greyscale when it's small, but if you make the video fullscreen on a computer monitor, it looks like total shit. the greyscale export is an attempt to capture how it feels on the device

19 Sept 2024

finally got my video-exporter to output audio as well, so now i'm ready to record trailer footage

5 Aug 2023

crescent moon, 150 bytes of pico8 lua (source and link to browser version in reply)

pico-8-edu.comPICO-8 Education Edition

5 Aug 2023

?"\^!5f100█ˇ5●6777777" ::_::x=rnd(4)-2y=rnd(4)-2d=x*x+y*y c=d<1and max(rnd(2)+8*(x+y-(1-x*x-y*y)^.5))*min(1,20-d^.5*20)pset(64+x*32,64+y*32,c)goto _