TweeTree by Rhiz
A tweetcart (the whole game fits in a single tweet) in Pico-8 about sending rain clouds to keep a tree alive.
Press Z to send a rain cloud. Once the cloud is over the base of the tree, the tree will grow. You need to send another cloud shortly after the tree grows to keep the tree alive.
Source code fits inside a single tweet:
function r(x,y,b,i) if(i<0)return line(x,y,x+b+sin(t()),y-10,min(3+i,4))r(x+b,y-10,b+4,i-1)r(x+b,y-10,b-4,i-1)end c=0n=0::a::c+=2 if(btnp(4))c=0 if(c==64)n*=2 n=max(n-n/72,1)l=n i=0 while l>1 do l/=2 i+=1 end for i=1,20 do circfill(c-i,10,5,5)end r(64,127,0,i)flip()cls(12)goto a
| Youtube | https://rhizgames.itch.io/tweetree |
| Youtube | https://twitter.com/RhizomaticWar/status/1251592600248819713 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/tweetree |
Ratings
| Overall | 919th | 2.938⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1019th | 2.457⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 59th | 4.087⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 247th | 3.957⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 869th | 2.833⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 30🗳️ | 25🗨️ |
If you ever decide to develop the idea, go into fractal pattern generation.
Submitting a tweetcart is daring move for compo, where I suspect most folks will just not understand the limitations and judge harshly. For 279 characters I thought it was darn good.
Well done!