Bounce tiny drops that fall from the sky to make music! This began as a 500-character cart for TweetTweetJam 8.

Controls:

  • Click and drag the mouse to draw lines, or to move line endpoints.
  • Z/X deletes a line. If your mouse is over a line endpoint, it'll delete that line, otherwise it'll delete the newest line.
  • Left/right changes line sounds. If your mouse is over a line endpoint, it'll change that line's sound, otherwise it'll change the sound for new lines.
  • Up/down changes the interval between drops.
  • E to start/stop audio export.
  • S to save to the clipboard. In the web version, you'll need to press ctrl-C after this to complete the copy. (Or, on a Mac, ctrl-C so PICO-8 notices and then cmd-C.)
  • R to restore from the clipboard.
  • N to get a new empty scene.
  • When you paste a saved scene into PICO-8, Tiny Drops will automatically load it. In the web version on Mac, you'll need to press cmd-V to paste and then ctrl-V to get PICO-8 to notice the paste.

Known issues:

  • Can get slow if you trap too many drops on the screen.
  • When you start to create a line, you may hear "phantom" bounces until you start dragging the mouse. (Happens with 0-length lines.)

You can also check out the code for the jam version in PICO-8 Education Edition. From the running cart, hit escape twice to get to the code editor, and hit ctrl-R to run the cart again.

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Authorluchak
Made withPICO-8
TagsAudio, Music, Physics
LinksLexaloffle BBS

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drop

src 64,0,60

line 54,127,65,0,13

line 45,107,56,126,14

line 19,87,45,92,15

line 7,124,27,124,15

line 0,103,9,103,15

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Nice! Sort-of-trapping drops in  acute angles often gives the most interesting results, for some reason...

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Made a video on Tiny Drops 

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super cool, had a lot of fun playing this

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ahah - would be nice to have some "pleasing" presets!

Best I got was...totally random noise :)

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This is about discovery, not control! :)

But yeah - agreed that a few presets might help. I'm thinking of doing an expanded post-jam version that adds a few easy missing features, so adding presets would make sense.