Terra - A Terraria Demake

A tiny fanmade demake of Terraria in PICO-8!

If you haven't already, consider getting the original game. This is only a tiny portion of what Terraria has to offer!

And, if you enjoy this demake, please consider supporting me by purchasing one of my other games over on the Pixel Shock itch.io

Features

• A large map of 256x128 tiles, stored using PICO-8's extended memory.
• Various biomes: Forest, Jungle, Corruption, Underground, Caverns, and Underground Jungle.
• 4 bosses: King Slime, the Eye of Cthulhu, Ocram, and Plantera, each with their own summoning requirements.
• Many enemies for each biome and underground, with most having multiple variants. (9 types, with 25 variations in total)
• Fancy world generation, with spaghetti caves!
• Mining and crafting.
• Various melee weapons, and ranged weapons that automatically aim towards the nearest visible target, prioritising bosses.
• A basic palette fade lighting system, with a day-night cycle.
• Quite a few progression/recipe changes due to space limitations, details can be found on the Lexaloffle page.
• A built-in custom character creator cartridge, so you can use custom characters even when playing on an offline instance of PICO-8!
• Optional keyboard + mouse controls!
• Life Crystals and Shadow Orbs to smash!

Controls

 🅾️/Z - Jump

 ❎/X - Use item

 ⬅️/➡️ - Move

 ⬆️/⬇️ - (Tools) Aim up or down

 Pause/Enter - Open crafting/inventory screen (Hold: open system pause menu)

 🅾️/Z - Pick up item or craft

 ❎/X - Move hover slot to trash if occupied, otherwise move trashed item to hover slot.

 ⬆️/⬇️ - Scroll / change selected item

 ⬅️ - Go to Crafting side

 ➡️ - Go to Inventory side

 Pause/Enter - Close crafting/inventory screen (Hold: open system pause menu)

 Space Bar/Right Click: Jump

 Left Click: Use item at mouse location

 Scroll Wheel: Change selected item.

 A/D: Move left/right

 E/Enter/Scroll Wheel Click - Open crafting/inventory screen (Hold: open system pause menu)

 Move the mouse to the side of the screen you would like to interact with.

 Left Click - Pick up item or craft

 Right Click - Move hover slot to trash if occupied, otherwise move trashed item to hover slot.

 Scroll Wheel - Scroll / change selected item

 E/Enter/Scroll Wheel Click - Close crafting/inventory screen (Hold: open system pause menu)

How to save your worlds and players

! Please note that save files will not work if you play on mobile !

For Windows, I recommend using Notepad++. This is what I use for my own save files

The pause menu can be brought up by holding the pause button, where there will be an option to save. Alternatively, on the web player version above, you can click the pause button to the right of the game.

• When saving, the player, then the world will be copied to the clipboard. Paste these into an empty text file each to save them! If you're overwriting an existing file, make sure it is completely empty first. (for example, in most text editors you would press ctrl+a to select all, then backspace to delete the old save, then ctrl+v to paste the new one, then save it with ctrl+s)
• When loading, simply drag and drop each file onto Terra when it asks and it will load them for you. Alternatively, you can copy the contents of the file and paste them onto the game.

Here is a video for a visual demonstration:

If the game crashes when you load your save, make sure there is no empty space at the start of the file! The save file's numbers MUST be the very first thing in the file, otherwise Terra doesn't know where they are.

• Using tline sprite rotation function from TheRoboZ and distance function from freds72.
• Music by jo560hs.
• Sup3rAw3som3Gam3r helped with multiple ideas and a few optimisations.
• Yeggplant for feedback and a few item suggestions.
• Everyone who has played and found bugs for me to fix!