Linecraft - A Minecraft Demake
Linecraft is a Minecraft demake, made for the fantasy console PICO-8. It tries to follow the style and feel of Minecraft Alpha and Minecraft Legacy as much as possible.
Every world in the game is a 64x64x64 map that you can mine blocks, create houses, kill mobs and do whatever you want in them. You can play in creative and survival; superflat and default.
The game was originally a wireframe renderer (hence the name; Linecraft), but I managed to fit a polygon renderer with some static patterns for blocks instead of textures (due to memory limitations). These patterns kind of reminded me to Chowder's clothing when I first coded them in. :)
Special features:
- World Exporting & Importing (to share worlds across games)
- Isometic screenshots
- Porting worlds to Minecraft (Tutorial post in Lexaloffle)
You can play with buttons and with keyboard, it's mobile friendly if you play with buttons.
Code & Graphics
- Me :) Lexaloffle
SFX & Music
Some details:
Mobs
- Chicken
- Sheep
- Cow
- Pig
- Skeleton
- Zombie
- Creeper
Blocks
- Stone
- Grass
- Dirt
- Cobblestone
- Log (Oak)
- Planks
- Crafting Table
- Sand
- Glass
- Sandstone
- Bedrock
- Gravel
- Stone Bricks
- Obsidian
- Coal Ore
- Coal Block
- Lapis Ore
- Lapis Block
- Iron Ore
- Iron Block
- Gold Ore
- Gold Block
- Diamond Ore
- Diamond Block
- Emerald Ore
- Emerald Block
- Chest
- Furnace
- Black Wool (not true black, hehe PICO-8 limitations)
- Blue Wool
- Purple Wool
- Green Wool
- Brown Wool
- Gray Wool
- Light Gray Wool
- White Wool
- Red Wool
- Orange Wool
- Yellow Wool
- Lime Wool
- Light Blue Wool
- Gray Blue Wool
- Pink Wool
- Peach Wool
- Bed
- Sapling
- Torch
Items
- Coal
- Lapis Lazuli
- Iron Ingot
- Gold Ingot
- Diamond
- Emerald
- Wooden Sword
- Stone Sword
- Iron Sword
- Diamond Sword
- Wooden Pickaxe
- Stone Pickaxe
- Iron Pickaxe
- Diamond Pickaxe
- Wooden Axe
- Stone Axe
- Iron Axe
- Diamond Axe
- Wooden Shovel
- Stone Shovel
- Iron Shovel
- Diamond Shovel
- Bucket
- Lava Bucket
- Water Bucket
- Porkchop
- Cooked Porkchop
- Raw Chicken
- Cooked Chicken
- Beef
- Steak
- Stick
- Bone
- Bone Meal
Limitations
- 32 maximum chests per world.
- 32 maximum furnaces per world.
- 9x9x9 block render distance for polygon renderer.
- 13x13x9 block render distance for wireframe renderer.
- 4 water levels instead of 16.
- 8 light levels instead of 16.
How to play with buttons
Player movement:
Camera turning:
Inventory management:
Block manipulation:
There are two types/colors of buttons?! Yes, to fit all the actions of Linecraft in a limited button set, there are two types of button presses detected in the game.
The green buttons are simple, the button just needs to be pressed in order for that action to be performed.
The yellow buttons are the first button that you need to press do such thing. Eg: If you want to move the player to the left, you first press the O button and then you press the left button. If you first press the left button, the left button will be detected as the first one and the action will not take place!
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Comments
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we got doom, and we got minecraft
this is so wavy 🌊
CHICKEN JOCKEY. Cool game man. I really want to try it but im so confused on the controls? I dont understand how to mine shit.
Also using the mouse for the menu then it doesnt do anything in game kind of leads you on the wrong path :)
keen to see where this goes.
Hm interesting. Probably a bug. The game detects whether to use keyboard/mouse or to use buttons, maybe that code is broken on the first time you play the game. Will look into it! I tried it and it seems that the first time it does kind of force you to play on buttons, but on the second game session and third it works just like expected, so maybe if you exit the world and re-enter it will fix itself. Will be fixing that on the next update! Thank you for playing :)
Also if you're wondering how to do stuff, you can click on the spoiler that says "How to play with buttons". There you get a list of actions that you can do, like mining and stuff. You can only do one action at a time, though.
EDIT: oo, I just checked the code, to fix it temporarily you shouldn't just exit and re-enter the world... My mistake. You need to go to the settings and exit. I'll be patching the game now so don't worry.
Alright! The game has been patched. This issue is fixed :)
Woohoo! It's out on itch now! And more pico8-limitation-destroying than ever! I'm mainly commenting to hopefully boost the game on itch somehow lol.
Thank you! :D