Demi Daggers
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Take the cursed dagger, use its power to dispatch the horrors from this hellish place, score the best time!
Note: this is not an official Devils Daggers port for PICO8 but a fan game using Sorath's game universe.
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How to play
Default controls: ESDF + mouse
Fire: left mouse button
Jump: space
Local stats icons:
- number of jewels collected
- number of daggers fired
- hit ratio
- obituary message
- session time
Configuration Settings
Go to Settings , adjust and accept to save your changes.
Online Leaderboard
Game uses Newgrounds leaderboard for competitive play.
Click on online - connect button on title screen to login (or create) with your NG account.
Online ladder can be disabled from settings menu.
Standalone Version
In you own Pico8 "devkit", you can download the standalone zip package.
Recommended setup (adjust to your OS):
REM pick a folder on your hard-drive REM optional if you upack archive in the default pico carts folder mkdir daggers cd daggers mkdir carts cd carts REM change xx to actual version number unzip daggers_xxx_standalone.zip cd .. <path to>\pico.exe -home .
From Pico8 console:
load freds72_daggers_title_mini run
Editor How to
Game ships with a built-in editor.
Design your own voxel enemies and share your creations on #demidaggers!
(see workaround below for middle click)
Editor 101
All commands have a tooltip, hover the mouse on the icon and a sliding text will appear:
- left click: draw voxel
- middle click (hold): rotate view
- right click: pick color from cursor
- green line: represents the drawing plane (switches dynamically)
- mouse wheel: moves drawing plane back&forth (slices)
In case you want to revert to original models, hit P (for pause) and select reset all (needs confirmation):
Saving & Sharing
play command saves the models, generates images and goes back to title
copy copies the current model to the clipboard, easy to share a single model. Don't forget to post the corresponding gif!
Paste the text on the target model to use it.
export saves all models for sharing
When running standalone (binaries or PICO8 desktop), file is located under
%APPDATA%\pico-8\appdata\freds72_daggers\export.p8l
When running on web, use browser dev tools to extract the "freds72_daggers_asssets.p8l" file.
Drag&drop an export.p8l file over an open editor to replace your current voxel collection.
Credits
Sorath: original game!
Ridgek: (awesome) music & sound design
Artyom Brullov: additional gfx
Heraclum: title art
Werxyz, Miss Mouse: beta tester
Zep and the #pico8 discord folks!
Download
Click download now to get access to the following files:
Development log
- V1.4 - Quality of life fixesJun 14, 2024
- V1.3 - New title art & framework updateFeb 28, 2024
- Journey to Demi DaggersDec 09, 2023
- V1.2 - Gameplay tweaksNov 29, 2023
- V1.1 - Post launch fixesNov 24, 2023
Comments
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sorry im broke so grabbed it for free. Suppose i must give you something as a little token of respect to your work... if i ever be not so broke)
On behalf of a small Mobile game publisher, would you be interested in further developing your game with our Audio interns and developers to make a mobile game?
daggers_15064e3_1.3 this is text file on the Linux version? Kate will open it up.
your window manager got confused - this is an application
I fix it. Change daggers_15064e3_1.3 to daggers_15064e3_1_3
A . will change it to a text file.
I was wondering if there's any chance for uploading the .p8 files like you did with POOM? Thanks!
done
Aawesome! Thanks so much!
Insane how true this is to the original. Masterfully done, sir.
thanks - tried to be smart on what to cut down!
o.O I can't believe you made this for Pico - it's an amazing demake
thanks!
Any chance we could get the pico-8 carts added to the downloads?
sure - will be there soon
note that game is already on Splore
This is a great game and have a lot of potential!
thanks - ironing out some gameplay aspects!
Nice work as always
thanks - takes a bit of time tho 😜
impressive conversion !
the linux version doesn't work for me :(
can you share the error message?
it's really well done, mindblowing. But really hard, like is there a strat or something ?
avoid running around - kill squids (skulls spawns points) as soon as possible - use the shotgun
(and I am not a pro-player by no means!)
thanks a lot
I love the concept of the game but I just suck at it ;-;
latest 1.2 is a bit more forgiving - try again?
Way easier I had a lot of fun
this is amazing
Demi Daggers Gameplay
This is INCREDIBLY impressive, and as a big devil daggers fan this works surprisingly well!!! The fact you have voxel models and even an editor is just insane, I have no clue how you've done this on pico-8...
My 3 biggest gripes are the lack of strafing/bunnyhopping, the fact you have to double click to shotgun, and the lack of stereo audio making it hard to tell when thinsg are behind and such (but i'm sure most of this is simply the fault of the pico-8)
Just a down right incredible de-make overall
thanks!
3d sound: yeah, ridgek did some magic but pico8 is a mono-audio platform so 🤷♂️
double-click shotgun? how would you prefer that to work? it is dbl click in DD.
strafing does have some speed bonus but yeah, no combo with jump - improving jump is on the todo list, maybe can add some ‘pro move’ here!
Hi,
In DD you just tap to shotgun, don't have to double click. If you hold down left-click you get stream, if you tap you get shotgun. Try it out!
ah yes of course!
will fix that (actually much simpler!)
Yes, thank u!!
new version online with a (hopefully) better shotgun and jump (still no bunnyhop!)