Pico 8 Help

Hitesh

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Hello all

There is a PICO-8 game I really like and wonder if someone can help me "hack" it to make, in my eyes, improvements.

Its based on the old Spectrum game that was called "Jumping Jack".

The Pico-8 make/take/demake of that is called Jumping Johnny or Jumping John and can be found and played online here:

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=103467#p

I have made the following changes to it :
(1) Changed the player to a "Lemming"
(2) Changed to hazard to a Donkey Kong style "fireball"
(3) In the original, the levels get harder by more fireballs. In my hack, along with the fireballs, the holes that you jump through get bigger as you progress up the levels.

Changes I'd like to make are to do with hiscores. Currently there is no hiscores. I'd like someone to help me setup hiscores :
(1) +2 point if you have a successful jump
(2) -1 point if you fall down a hole
(3) -1 point if you get hit by a fireball
(4) +5 points for each life left at the end of a level

(5) Ideally the score to be displayed on the screen as you are playing
(6) Hiscore and possibly name saved to carddata

Anyone fancy this? I think it is only 10 minutes work but its WELL BEYOND ME.

Regards, Hitesh

PS - Apologies for any typos and errors. I am visually impaired and today is not a good day.
 

Hitesh

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Thanks. I'll look at it myself over the next two days, probably fail, and then hand it over to you.
The code, to be fair, looks fairly clean.
 

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Started to sort my toolchain. Had to update Pico 8. My version was 5 years old.
I'm displaying the score using interlacing so it appears transparent and it won't obscure the game play
PXL_20230523_201436517.jpg
 
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