A video tutorial on how to make your own Shmup in Pico-8

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A video tutorial on how to make your own Shmup in Pico-8

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I'm starting a tutorial on how to make your own Shmup from scratch! It's for gamedev noobs. From zero skills to completely finished game in one video series.

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The goal is to make a basic Shmup first and then slowly turn it into an AWESOME shmup!

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New episodes on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I will use this thread to keep a list of the episodes and post significant progress. Let's gooooooo!

Episode 1 - Hello World
Episode 2 - Moving Stuff
Episode 3 - Controls
Episode 4 - Shooting
Episode 5 - Animation
Episode 6 - Health UI
Episode 7 - Starfield
Episode 8 - Animating Stars
Episode 9 - Game Over
Episode 10 - More Bullets
Episode 11 - Enemies
Episode 12 - Collsions
Episode 13 - Invulnerability
Episode 14 - Explosions
Episode 15 - Better Explosions
Episode 16 - Shockwaves
Episode 17 - Music
Episode 18 - More Enemies
Episode 19 - Big Enemies
Episode 20 - Enemy Spawns
Episode 21 - Enemy Movement
Episode 22 - Enemy Attacks
Episode 23 - Enemy Bullets
Episode 24 - Spread Shots
Episode 25 - Aimed Shots
Episode 26 - Pickups
Episode 27 - Bombs
Episode 29 - Bosss
Episode 29 - The End

Also annoucing the Lazy Devs Basic Shmup Showcase.
If you participated in the tutorial you have one month to finish your game and submit it to the showcase. I pledge to play all of the submitted game and to discuss them in a dedicated video!


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Update: Here is where we are at the end of Episode 5

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Update: Here is where we are at the end of Episode 8

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Update: Here is where we are at the end of Episode 14. Basics all in place. Ready to spice up those explosions!

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Let's take a look, thanks for sharing.
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My pleasure!

Update: Here we are after episode 16. Explosions nice and spicy!

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Update: This is after episode 21. To keep things simple we focus on a classic Space Invaders style Shmup. But we do spice it up with special effects like smooth enemy movement.

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Update: This is after episode 24. We introduced enemy bullets and learned how to make pretty Bullet Hell-style spread patterns.

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Nice and amazing post this one is, thanks for sharing…





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This is after episode 27. We have bombs, pickups and everything. Ready for the boss fight!

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This is what our Shmup looks like at the end of the Tutorial. We have super action-packed levels and an epic Boss Fight!

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