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!