CRAFT-8 is a "game engine" server, where you can create games that other players get to play and rate Games are made with Lua, using implemented API functions, like btn(key) to get the player's current inputs, circ(x,y,color) to create a circle with a color, etc.
You can also make graphical displays (demoscene, and such), like a donut.
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CRAFT-8 is meant to be a very rough version of PICO-8 by lexaloffle, and is barely going to "emulate" it. It is not meant to be 1 to 1 compatiable, and you are not able to port current PICO-8 games with lots of tweaking.
As of now, the server that is hosting this project is not setup. However, I am planning for it to release soon.
- Custom web code editor.
- Game loading and saving system.
- Lua integration
- Cross Compatibility with PICO-8, porting from and to CRAFT-8 will not work.
- Virtual Memory, no peeking or any of that.
- 1 to 1 sound implementations. It will use noteblocks
- Using a resourcepack serverside to implement things like sounds and custom textures.
Current supported api
cls([c]) -- clears screen
color(c) -- sets draw color in draw state
pset(x,y,[c]) -- pixel set
pget(x,y,[c]) -- pixel get
circfill(x,y,r [,c]) -- filled circle
circ(x,y,r [,c]) -- hollow circle
rect(x1,y1,x2,y2 [,c]) -- hollow rectangle
rectfill(x1,y1,x2,y2 [,c]) -- filled rectangle
line(x1,y1,x2,y2 [,c]) -- line
print(str, [,x] [,y] [,c]) -- prints to screen
-- Not supported, but will soon.
-- this is for drawing a rectangle of pixels from the sprite sheet.
-- sspr( sx, sy, sw, sh, dx, dy, [dw,] [dh,] [flip_x,] [flip_y] )
-- n here is sprite number, sprites are 8x8, they are labeled from 0 to n in the sprite sheet
-- spr( n, [x,] [y,] [w,] [h,] [flip_x,] [flip_y] )min(first [,second])
max(first [,second])
mid(first, second, third)
ceil(num)
flr(num)
abs(num)
sgn(num)
sin(num)
cos(num)
atan2(x, y)
rnd( [limit] )t() = time()
add(table, value)
-- this is being added to, but I haven't had time to figure out the nuances.
btn(input) -- A, S, W, D, Jump, Sprint