MakeCode Arcade demoscene?

[AqeeAqee]

Cool!
Ah, here is a adaptor layer by @peli .
So the World race must migrated based on this layer.
And I just optimized pattern fill in game, maybe should add them together. I am going to share my version recently. Do it now!

[Brohann]

It’s just a compat layer for pico 8 tweetcarts

[thegreatone]

coded this a while back

Visual effects

[Vegz78]

@personalnote

he ported a Pico-8 game, so unless you do the same, I doubt you can create something similar.

Is there any reason why advanced games and performance is contingent on this pico-8 compat layer and cannot be implemented just as well or better directly in MCA?

[Brohann]

I keep forgetting to mention that the pico8 compat layer was made by @peli

[Brohann]

I don’t think world race used this compat layer, just translated the code into makecode arcade

[AqeeAqee]

@Vegz78

Is there any reason why advanced games and performance is contingent on this pico-8 compat layer and cannot be implemented just as well or better directly in MCA?

That’s CAN be implemented just as well or better directly in MCA, absolutely!
This layer is just for convenience of migrating from pico8, nothing else. Everything you saw is MCA.
The reason seldom demos appears, I guess, is Arcade features and guys in this forum are both caring about making games more, instead of demos.

[personalnote]

idk man i don’t deal in this pico-8 boogie stuff

[Vegz78]

Some speech or other outside of the box sounding music or sound effects, which @randomuser is researching, would also be very interesting to add to a demo project!:

Small update on the mp3/speech in makecode idea!

TL:DR at bottom! I sifted through the hardware code of Makecode arcade and found how it runs sound effects! I was hoping to find some sort of sound file player, but instead they simply play a bunch of sine waves just as we can in the coding menu. Although they do have some extra shapes beyond just sine, square, sawtooth, and noise! That’s how they make the other stock noises in Makecode arcade that we cant, like the other notes in the melody player and the sound effects. I also found that for …

[AqeeAqee]

funny. And have a look on this Speako8 Speech Synthesis Library
I also digged into synthesizer codes a little when I make my karaoke project, and later try to migrate the pico8 World Race. Found one of potential issue is that volume is not set by note, but set by whole “package”. And seems also not as many as pico wave shapes, and other effects either. So maybe hard to make same sfx node of pico8, and would be harder synth speach more natually.

[randomuser]

Ah, yeah! that would be so awesome!

[AqeeAqee]

And this: Sample Sandbox
Difference ways with prev one. This more like a player playing pre-recorded mp3, while the prev seems syths on air. (havn’t have time to dive into them more)

[AqeeAqee]

@AqeeAqee

and later try to migrate the pico8 World Race

… sfx (sounds).

[Vegz78]

@AqeeAqee

when I make my karaoke project

How on earth did I miss this treasure cove?!?!:

Karaoke

Hi, all! This is a Karaoke music app, with some demo songs. To practice singing skill, instrument performence skill, or just sing & play for fun. Song played with build-in sequencer(by now). Faster/Slower BPM, jump between sentences while playing. And pitch tune(raise/fall), or adjust note(beats) width while pausing. Lyrics of songs are in various language, to show how deal with them, include English, Chinese, Japanese(Kana and Roma phonetic notation) For minimize job of inputing the…

Amazing work! And I can see that you have made almost a full demo with great graphics and music already with this awesome “Bad Apple MV”:

Karaoke

You mean this ? Or link on my github: https://aqeeaqee.github.io/bad-apple-mv/

[AqeeAqee]

So glad to hear you like it!

[Vegz78]

MCA music just improved yet another notch for even better demos!:

Various Instruments Recreated in Makecode Arcade

This version is outdated. Use this instead!

How would such improved and custom instruments work with your midi and other music extensions, @UnsignedArduino?

[UnsignedArduino]

Unfortunately, it wasn’t made with the Song instrument format so my converter can’t use it. The sounds are quite cool though - hopefully these are ported over to custom instruments that can be used in a Song!

@richard had a tool that allowed you to experiment with instruments that can be implemented in the Song format, but I can’t find the link for it.

[AqeeAqee]

These sound really wonderful, tune colour of instruments are emulated, can be identify easily.
But like @UnsignedArduino said, they are not implement by instrument, can’t applied into other game directly. At least, it shown a possibility of beautiful instrument in MCA.

[ThatUruguayanGuy]

OMG!! I’m here?? Y’all, thank you for the support! I’m almost done with the glockenspiel and the hammond drawbar organ. Stay tuned!!

[Vegz78]

Another GIANT leap forward for the MCA demoscene!!!:

Brohann's 3D devlog

HUGE UPDATE I optimised the engine to literally be 50 times faster. @Kiwiphoenix364 the problem was not calculating the vertices, the slowdown was from sorting the triangles with the sortarray thingy, so I used a different way of sorting the triangles array.