pandora

Introduction

Pandora is a pixelly cat game made using the PICO-8 fantasy console, coded in Lua.

You can play the game on andrewhick.com/games.

Get through gardens, dungeons and mountains while looking for your long lost socky. Defeat your nemesis. If you're particularly efficient, you get a medal at the end of each level.

• Controls: Move using arrow keys / direction pad
• On computer: Z = OK or wait, X = menu
• On mobile: O = OK or wait, X = menu

Editing

Buy Pico-8 and load the latest .p8 file to edit the game.

Exporting

To export the game to play on the web in p8.png format:

• Press fn+F7 during the game to capture the image
• Exit the game
• Save the png file with save pandora.p8.png
• Export the HTML and Javascript files with export pandora.html
• Embed the png on a website, linking to pandora.html
• Remember to load pandora.p8 again to continue coding.

How it looks on a website:

<a href="./pandora.html">
  <img class="inline" src="./pandora.p8.png" alt="Play pixelly cat game"/>
</a>

Main versions

• 00 - First 6 levels
• 01 - Menu and title screen
• 02 - Ice levels (7-9)
• 03 - All 16 levels completed
• 04 - Hints and level names
• 05 - Music varies by level type
• 06 - End credits and bugfixes
• 07 - More moves and level select