PICO8 Side Scroller Template

Table Of Content

• Introduction
• How To Start A Project

Introduction

This is a simple starting point for a 2D Side Scroller Platformer in PICO8, it includes the following things:

• A simple character
  • Move
    • With a flag to disable movement
  • Jump
    • With Coyote
    • With Jump Buffer
  • Dash
    • Dash is measured in seconds
    • Dash has cooldown
  • Be invincible for a pre-configured amount of time
• A simple pickup that interacts with the player
• A simple spike hazard that interacts with the player
• A playable level as a demo

This is a nice starting point for people that want to have some basic platformer code and focus on more important things like gameplay and game feel.

NOTE:

Since I don't like the coding style inside of the PICO8 editor with the very small screen and the font being all weird and such (in my opinion) the source code is in .lua files inside of /src and the only thing that there is in the editor is the includes to the files so that we can work with them.

How To Start A Project

• Download the project from the releases page
• Open PICO8 and create a new folder where you keep your projects
• Copy the content of the repository to that folder
• Delete the following files/directories
  • .git
  • .github
  • .gitignore
  • .releaserc.json
  • LICENSE
  • README.md
• Rename sidescroll-template.p8 to whatever you want to call your project
• Do your thing :)