PIZZA PANDA

This is a public copy of the PICO-8 source code for PIZZA PANDA, provided here in its original unminified form so you can actually read it maybe.

Editing levels

Each level is stored in a separate .p8 file in the level folder. To edit a level, open its .p8 file in PICO-8 and use the built-in map editor.

Note that each level might not necessarily start at the top of the map space; the build cart automatically trims any empty rows from the top and bottom of a level in order to simplify the workflow.

Top row of sprites

The top row of each level is interpreted as parameters defining the level's goals.

The beginning of the top row is a variable-length repeated sequence of the following pair of sprites:

1. NPC
2. (optional) hat which must be worn by the NPC

The last two sprites of the top row are the target times for the gold star and night-mode star; the sprite number is interpreted to be the number of seconds.

To try out your changes, just push Ctrl-R. This will automatically save the cart, recompress the level into the master cart, and launch the master cart straight into the level.

Editing datatables or the spritesheet

If you make a change to datatables.p8lua or spritesheet.p8, you'll have to rebuild the master cart in order for your changes to take effect.

1. If you changed any datatables, do the following (if not, you can skip this):
   1. From the PICO-8 console, run build_datatables.p8:

      load build_datatables.p8
      run
      

   2. Open bindata.p8 in an external text editor
   3. Completely replace the file content with the contents of your clipboard.
2. From the PICO-8 console, run build.p8:

   load build.p8
   run
   

3. This will take a bit to compress and store everything in the master cart (pizza_panda.p8); once it's finished, it will automatically load and run.