The Struggle

creator: Andrew E. Brereton
date: 2022-01-10
twitter: @aebrer
website: aebrer.xyz
medium: Pico-8, Lua, Tweetcart

This piece uses a type of probabilistic seed resetting to ensure that there will be a seamless loop of random length in each piece. It also makes heavy use of a screen copying technique added to the Pico-8 in version 0.2.4 (the latest). It copies vertical or horizontal bars, and these competing slices make up what you see on the screen, seeded by little hearts :)

Based on this tweetcart I made: https://twitter.com/aebrer/status/1480533290079694861?s=20

Source code:
r=rnd
w=stat(6)
s=1
for i=1,#w do
ch=ord(sub(w,i,i))s+=s*31+ch
end
if(#w==0)s=r(-1)
srand(s)
function q()return r(32)-16end
pal({q(),q(),q(),q(),q(),q(),q(),q(),q()},1)
f=1_set_fps(60)cls()poke(0x5f54,0x60)::_::
for i=0,9do
?"♥",r(128),r(128),r(10)
end
for i=0,99do
x=r(128)sspr(x,0,1,128,x+r({-1,1}),0,r(2),128)sspr(0,x,128,1,0,x+r({-1,1}),128,r(2))end
if(r(f)>500)srand(s)f=0
f+=1flip()goto _