Pico8Com
A downloadable asset pack
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Pico8Com is a Pico8-JS-Websocket communication project to serve as foundation for Pico8 web multiplayer projects. It provides the required Lua and JS Code for Pico8-JS communication as part of a basic test project with a simple broadcast websocket Node.JS server.
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In order to test the demo project:
- Install Node.js (http://nodejs.org/).
- Run "npm install" inside "server" folder to install the server dependencies.
- Run "node server.js" inside "server" folder to run the server.
- Open 2 instances of pico8com.html.
Pico8 side integration:
- Call "update_msg" in your _update function.
- Process input messages in "process_input" function, message data is in "imsg" variable.
- Call "send_message(msg)" in order to send messages to the JS side.
JS side integration:
- Add <script async type="text/javascript" src="pico8comjs.js"></script> to your html container.
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I tried modifying the cart to include two players but when I open the html page it runs the old version of the cart. is there something I am missing?
i like this
I'm not very familiar with license types. Which one do you guys suggest? Cheers.
I think that an open source license would be great, like GPL or MIT
hi
It doesn't look like you set up a license. Any plan to do that? Having this licensed open source would be nice.