The balance of the world has been disrupted. All is in danger, and chaos looms. It's then that one brave soul comes forth... that is you! And now, using the power of BINGO, you must save the world.
Because moving backgrounds may cause motion sickness or other problems I have provided a non-blinky version, though if you have a particular sensitivity it may be best to give it a pass.
Made using pico-8 from Lexaloffle.
PLEASE READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS:
- Play BINGO by taking turns with the CPU playing cards from your hand - You both start with 15hp, and lose at 0 or less - You have a BINGO BOARD (3x3) and a HAND of 3 cards beneath it - Play a card from your hand to light up the square on your board or the CPU's - Cards not on either board go in the DEAD PILE - if the DEAD PILE fills up (5 cards), whoever played the last card takes 5 damage and a new round starts - if someone gets a BINGO, they do 5 damage per BINGO plus 1 per card in the DEAD PILE
There are four stages, no background music and there's probably a few bugs, but basic play should work fine. Enjoy!
NOTES:
If the web player doesn't pop up right away, give it a second. Should work fine in FF/Chrome. If it doesn't work in those or other modern browsers please tell me.
Pico-8 is a Fantasy Console by Lexaloffle. It has a built-in editing environment and uses Lua for program code, less standard libraries. Information on Pico-8 is here:
I found the bugs in the original version and fixed them:
- pushing x caused an error (leftover debugging command) - sometimes not-short games had errors (off-by-one error exhausted deck early) - restarting did not work (tried to render stage -1, failed)
I think this is within the bounds of permitted after-time fixes so I've updated the embed URL, but just in case I'm keeping the links to the originals around.
Neat idea, didn't get the purpose of the deadpool at first but it's a nice addition. It seemed quite easy to get dealt an impossible hand, but that's the nature of the game I guess. Got quite a few index errors though, so had to refresh after each game. Neat idea, little more polish would do it well. Liked the sound, it really added to it. (Also don't press X, it doesn't seem to like it)
Is this a common variant of bingo or did you make it up? Either way I'm impressed, nice implementation or nice idea. It has the whole 'wait for your number to come up' luck, but still gives you some strategy options. Actually very fun. Pretty graphics too.
Any reason why it had to be z instead of space or something? I couldn't see the bottom bit with the instructions so spend ages trying to figure out how to press select.
Very creative, and very fun. I'm not sure if this was on purpose, but my game ended on a wonderful custom error screen (attempt to index nil on line 310 if it wasn't :P), and it left me with a smile!
@drakekin: Thanks for pointing out the errors! I'd had a pretty bad misunderstanding regarding my "take" function and it was eating half the deck, which explained all the index errors.
@Foofanoo42: Thanks! This is a bingo variant I made up for the compo. I'd been frustrated by bingo before since it's more of a slow lottery than a game and had thought up some variants, though none that worked with two players.
@Chris Delta: Thanks for playing! Was that error in the bugfixed version? I thought I'd fixed everything :/ If it wasn't the bugfixed version, what happened was it tried to restart and blew up, which is one of the things I fixed :P
stoarch: Was that the bugfixed version? Did it happen right at the start or after playing a bit? (That sometimes happend right at start in the original version, but shouldn't happen in the bugfix... in either case it should go away on a reload, at least temporarily)
I beat it on my first try! A lot of games would try to make bingo more interesting by adding sex, violence or characters, but this one just has tradition and good graphics. Also, the AI feels like a real person.
I love the mechanics and the graphics. It took me a little time to figure out the controls as I'm using an azerty but it was very nice to play. Great game!
Great little game. It's a very nice take on bingo. Until I read the comments, I thought this must be a common variant that you just pushed out there, but if you made it up, good on you. It made the whole "bingo" thing seem much less random. Also, as was mentioned above, now I've seen what this PICO-8 thing is, so I must explore it.
Pretty nice. Pico-8 seems like a charming little thing.
One gripe though. Whenever I restart the game (refresh the page) the numbers are all the same. The random generator seed number doesn't seem to change at all.
I have no idea if changing that is out of your hands.
At first I thought it was waaay too difficult. Once I figured out how all the rules worked, I found a strategy that never lost. Finished the game! Strategy: Prioritize anything on your board, then play anything into the dead hand if it isn't full, then play anything in their board.
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Any reason why it had to be z instead of space or something? I couldn't see the bottom bit with the instructions so spend ages trying to figure out how to press select.
@Foofanoo42: Thanks! This is a bingo variant I made up for the compo. I'd been frustrated by bingo before since it's more of a slow lottery than a game and had thought up some variants, though none that worked with two players.
@Chris Delta: Thanks for playing! Was that error in the bugfixed version? I thought I'd fixed everything :/ If it wasn't the bugfixed version, what happened was it tried to restart and blew up, which is one of the things I fixed :P
Pretty cool game with nice graphics and an interesting approach of the theme. Nice entry :D
Nice graphics and sfx, maybe the CPU Chose sfx have a bit to much bass and made my desk tremble a bit.
One gripe though. Whenever I restart the game (refresh the page) the numbers are all the same. The random generator seed number doesn't seem to change at all.
I have no idea if changing that is out of your hands.
Visuals are neat for a bingo game i guess :D !
Pico8 stuff seems interesting btw...