pali musi - A game I'm making in toki pona

[dull kelp]

I'm making a game in toki pona! It's kind of like a sandbox game where you type in a word in toki pona, and suddenly, that word just appears aut of nowhere (yes it's a scribblenauts clone)!
In the game youre Meowi, (or soweli Muwi) and you control with the arrow keys with up to jump (and also you can play in mobile, too) and click on menu to create an object! (there are only four objects you can make at the moment) use a to interact with it! (for throwable objects, use z or click a to jo, and x or b to pana. For pets use z(keyboard) or a(mouse) to pet!)
anyways, here's a beta version of the game:
https://arcade.makecode.com/S70052-97930-33101-11169

If you have any ideas, you can tell me here!

which part is weird? I can fix it

there is only four words

nothing

youre right, I should do that

you go to "ok"

I mean b by cklicking on the button

and also, you can refresh the page If you want the new update with the newly added message

there is no funtion to make it a touch screen

I was thinking to add every word that is an object in toki pona

and its a scribblenauts clone (In scribblenauts you type the thing instead of selecting it)

yeah

[ember dawn]

that's interesting. though i think scribblenauts mainly accepts nouns if i recall? will your system have something for every word or just words that are primarily nouns.

[dull kelp]

yeah I forgot what it was called so i called it an "object" which doesn't really make sense

ooh

thats what you mean

wait no

what do you mean?

[uncut willow]

what’s happens if you type ijo

[ember dawn]

i mean there are a limited number of words in toki pona, and not all of them indicate an object. for example, what would "jo" be

or maybe you could have multiple possible outcomes for a word, and then only allow each word to be used once per scenario. for example, a soweli could be a bear, or a rabbit

and ijo could choose randomly from all objects

[dull kelp]

It would be a circle that doesn't do anything. you can throw it at stuff and thats it

[uncut willow]

when you type something that doesn’t exist the character says ni li ala ijo

that’s

wrong

[dull kelp]

yeah, I was thinking that but coding it world bee too hard

[uncut willow]

it should be ijo ala for not a thing

[dull kelp]

yeah, my toki pona is not really good

youre right.

I'mma just do that

[dull kelp]

I made ijo and akesi

[cunning sapphire]

why are there all of the letters there?

you only need the 14 toki pona letters

and maybe y

[dull kelp]

there is no way for me to change the keyboard layout other than making my own keyboard which takes alot of time

[cunning sapphire]

also ijo just creates a random object right?

[dull kelp]

yes

and ale creates everything on the list

[cunning sapphire]

also it's grea that the max word length is kijetesantakalu

[dull kelp]

yeah its cool little detail right

[dull kelp]

I found a bug where when you type kijetesantakalu It doesn't appear and I fixed it

[cunning sapphire]

ok i was trying to spawn it before

but it's so tedious so i thought i made a mistake

[dull kelp]

and also, I drew the kijetesantakalu standing up

[dull kelp]

I added people and "mu"ing!

jaki li weka

[timid sail]

what software are using?

[dull kelp]

a website called makecode arcade

Its block-based but Its like scratch but better

[timid sail]

also the movement animation is quite smooth not janky like a lot of mine 👍

[timid sail]

cool ive used that

[dull kelp]

and also, Its better than you think

[timid sail]

it for sure better then scratch in terms of actial built in game mechanics

[nova pond]

tan seme la ilo sitelen li jo e sitelen pi toki pona ala? toki Inli kin li lon anu seme

[dull kelp]

where did i get the sitelen pona images?

did you ask that?

my toki pona is not really good

[nova pond]

Why does the keyboard have letters that aren’t in toki pona? Is English in it too or what

[dull kelp]

this has been asked before

[dull kelp]

here

[nova pond]

a

[mellow pawn]

you can pet kijetesantakalu when holding sike

also items are dont mirroring when the character turns

[dull kelp]

these two bugs are intentional

[mellow pawn]

intentional?

[dull kelp]

you can understand that this is intentional by looking at the throwing animations

[dull kelp]

Intentional

done on purpose, deliberate.

[mellow pawn]

i mean making bugs intentionally is nasa

[dull kelp]

okay, this one IS a bug, but, like, why would this count as a a bug?

[mellow pawn]

i dont sure its a "real" bug, just looks a little nasa

[dull kelp]

"Its not a bug, Its a feature"

• some programmer idk

[mellow pawn]

you can thow an item out of the world

[dull kelp]

thats a bug you cant fix

and also If you have a suggestion, tell me!

[mellow pawn]

are they even removed after that?💀

[dull kelp]

seme?

oh

still seme

[mellow pawn]

items should be at least removed after falling out of the world cuz we dont want to calculate extra items that cant even collide with other + wasting memory

[dull kelp]

I will try that

[mellow pawn]

ke

[dull kelp]

I did it

now if an object is farther than 500 pixels it will disappear

[timid sail]

its not a bug, its a feature

[terse creek]

Looks like a sick idea!

[dull kelp]

Update:

• now you can add adjectives to objects! there is only "lili" tho (now there is suli too), for example; "leko lili" makes a box which is half in size!
• and also, now the game has collisions!

(the space bar on the keyboard is in the ABC menu)

[mellow pawn]

'ale' freezes itself

[dull kelp]

oh

let me just

[dull kelp]

ok refresh the the page

does it work

oh

nope

it doesnt

ok now it should work

and the objects will be scattered around

aaand another update! now there is white filling on every object and the adjectives "loje", "jelo" and "laso" has been added!

100TH MESSAGE ON THIS POST

update: made the text box have up to 20 letters so that "kijetesantakalu" can have adjectives

[dull kelp]

look at my wonderful piece of art

and also, here is a cool thing you can do with ilo:
It can kill living beings. Yes, you can become a murderer in this game.

oh

It didn't work because of the collisions

[uncut willow]

the texture for leko lili is a triangle

[dull kelp]

no

Its a square, half black half white

[mellow pawn]

can't you make an expanding textbox?

[dull kelp]

no

that isnt possible

[mellow pawn]

😔

at least delete non-tp letters

cuz jumping from one letter to another taking too much time

[uncut willow]

writing “leko jelo” changed color of all existing leko, not only the new one

[dull kelp]

yes, thats a glitch

I saw it too

New Update!

• added waso
• added adjectives "ilo" "waso" and "pali" (pali makes it a non- hurting throwable object)

[uncut willow]

after that i wrote “leko suli laso” and it spawned another leko jelo

it’s in the ABC menu

after the big letters

[uncut willow]

i can’t pet the waso

also it flies too high

[dull kelp]

huh

there is so many bugs I'm seeing

but I'm already fixing one so

I am going to fix the other bugs too

yeah

I will try

you cant do that tho :/

there is no function to do it

nope

this is the only engine I use

[mellow pawn]

at all?

[dull kelp]

yup, Its the only engine I use

but I WILL try to make It have a keyboard

later

[mellow pawn]

mi ken ala toki💀

but ke

[dull kelp]

I fixed 1 bug

(when you hit an animal with a weapon (like ilo) you couldn't kill it)

I think the non-waso flyable objects not flying bug is fixed

[dull kelp]

now i fixed this too (the flying objects slowly fall now instead of having no gravity)

[uncut willow]

with the ilo

[dull kelp]

throw an ilo at living (drop it while moving)

no

drop it while youre moving

it goes faster

but

It doesnt die for that too

so imma fix it

[mellow pawn]

wait, i was able to kill it?

[dull kelp]

you was, and then a bug appeared, and now i will fix it

hmm

doesnt work

I think it works now

!

but everyone left

whoops

[uncut willow]

me too

i have the same issue

also with jan

[dull kelp]

yeah

I saw that

too

Idk

[uncut willow]

jan disappeared while spawning a leko

[dull kelp]

why

try it again, maybe ittl work

(refresh the page)

nope

still doesnt work

let me try again

yeah

yeah

refresh the page

does it work now

yes

it work

s

now

yeah

I changed it

when it touches an ilo, it dies

It doesnt kill a waso tho

now it does

yes

I didn't add that yet

only 1 adjective

I need to fix that

let me try

yeah

It does

I'm fixiing it

[uncut willow]

kala suli is so suli that if i drop it without jumping it falls thru the tgrohbg

ground

[dull kelp]

IT WORRKKSS

(refresh)

yeah

ooh

refresh

does it look good

I made a background

and some greenery

what

ok

yeah

ok

okay

I made the world bigger

yes

every living thing "mu"s

reset

refresh the page

It should have a background and some marks showing how much to the center of the map you are

and you left

:|

:(

oh

@stuck ginkgo why did you randomly go

(sorry for the ping if that made you annoyed)

why did everyone randomly go 🥺

I fixed the bug where if you color an object every one of that object gets the same color

[dull kelp]

Oh hi

Well I was going to go actually (for around an hour) so bye, and also if you play the game, make sure to give me some bugs that you see

I'm planning to make the keyboard better when I come back

Bye

[dull kelp]

toki!! I'm back

I'm back and I'm gonna make the keyboard better

[dull kelp]

Its taking ALOT of time for me to understand how to make a keyboard

this is so hard that Im THIS close to reverting it back to the original

OH MY PONA I'M SO CLOSE TO FINISHING IT!!!

LOOK

[uncut willow]

what

paused game or smth

[dull kelp]

?

ALSO I DID IIITT

you can just go to the site

and type!!

https://arcade.makecode.com/S70052-97930-33101-11169

here is another link so you wont get all the way up the post for the link

hey, I did it

[uncut willow]

pona wawa!

[dull kelp]

I added an update with kasi and kili

[dull kelp]

I have to go for like 3-5 hours

[uncut willow]

idea: add a supa that has regular physics but you can stand on it

also make the suli things be held higher so they don’t fall through the ground

[mellow pawn]

yay, it got a beautiful enviorement

[uncut willow]

there are even kasi growing

[uncut willow]

a waso ilo kills an ilo waso

[dull kelp]

I'm back

[dull kelp]

that's correct. the ilo waso can't kill since it has the properties of a waso.

[uncut willow]

i wrote ijo suli and it spawned a soweli for some reason, but this didn’t repeat

also the ijo can’t be suli or lili

[dull kelp]

ijo means "object" and when you type "ijo", It spawns a random object with no adjectives

ok i gotta go for a min

I'm back

Ill do it when i add "supa" which makes the collisions apply on Meowi

[uncut willow]

issue: things disappear after going too far

also an unintentional glitch with the edge included

[dull kelp]

nope, I added that so that when you throw stuff out of the world It dissapears

and also

[dull kelp]

TAWA MUSI MEOWI

yeah thats a glitch

(It doesnt exist tho since I didnt add it to an update)

yeah

[uncut willow]

ona li,,, tawa ala

[dull kelp]

lon

ala

yeah you cant fix that

you just have to deal with it

(use the enter button with no text in it to leave)

that works on every browser game that exists in the world

so you cant fix it

I made the update

Its a little bit glitchy

but

if you type supa it will make it so that you can interact with the objects

and also dont grab the supa objects

yeah its a bit too glitchy

I think I should revert this but its too late

and also I'm thinking of making another game

where you make stories with typing

sentences

like "jan li lon" makes a person appear

I'm gonna make it

or should i

hmm

[uncut willow]

isn’t it just this game

[dull kelp]

no

there isn't a player in the game I'm gonna make

[uncut willow]

you could check if it’s far only in the vertical axis

[dull kelp]

yeah

[uncut willow]

additiona feature of less pythagoras required

[dull kelp]

It should work now

nope

It disappears

It should work now

[uncut willow]

ilo mi la supa li lon ala

[dull kelp]

seme?

also I added len

which you can wear

[uncut willow]

o lukin: supa en len li lon ala

[dull kelp]

I think I forgot to update the thing

ok it should work now

(refresh page)

does it work

[uncut willow]

i have len but not supa

[dull kelp]

because supa is an adjective

not a noun

[uncut willow]

a

[dull kelp]

If oyu type "leko supa", It will make a leko which can be standed on

It is SOOO glitchy btw and I'm not going to fix it

I have to go for a few mins

[dull kelp]

me is back

[uncut willow]

leko supa is very laggy

and causes flying

[dull kelp]

.

yeah

ma

you can now spawn dead bodies of sowelis now! (r/brandnewsentence moment)

I just realised that if you throw something facing right it goes left and i think i fixed it

new update: now, if you put "suli" to an object, It will still be high quality!

[uncut willow]

when standing on a supa the falling/jumping animation is displayed instead of standing

[dull kelp]

.

the supa adjective is abandoned

I made it so that objects fall from the sky

mama soweli

I added "mun"

[dull kelp]

I added the ko adjective - guess what happens if you use it

[dull kelp]

elephant

these are the results of "soweli lili suli" (left) and "soweli lili lili suli suli" (right)

[uncut willow]

compression

[dull kelp]

the fact that It maintains its quality (a little) after being shrinked and re-sized is crazy

[dull kelp]

I'm gonna make a soweli suli suli suli suli (2 times more large)

LOOK AT HIM

[uncut willow]

in fact it doesn’t

it looks different

[uncut willow]

exponential growth of soweli

[dull kelp]

but soweli lili lili looks like this (how did it get the eyes after being bigger again??)

[uncut willow]

hm

[dull kelp]

IM GONNA MAKE 5 SULI'S

[uncut willow]

soweli pi suli 32

also, kijetesantakalu has a texture which is different from the sp

because the sp is sittin

g

[dull kelp]

OOHH MYYY PONNAAA

[uncut willow]

selo soweli li suli sama jan

how do you get high enough that he doesn’t fall through the ground immediately

[dull kelp]

yes, 󱦀 is standing up

[dull kelp]

it spawned like this and it didn't go to the ground

[uncut willow]

maybe make it have a “walking” state and a “sitting” state

so the sitting is

[dull kelp]

there is no animation in the engine I made which takes the images from an array to make a sprite

[uncut willow]

what about the player animation

he walks

[dull kelp]

and making it have animation would be so hard to do because you cant name sprites (but you can put them in categories)

wait what if i make the smallest soweli ever

soweli lili lili lili

[uncut willow]

the ground is mu ing

you’ve basically created bacteria

[cunning sapphire]

the ground is mewing

[uncut willow]

is this a minecraft reference

[dull kelp]

no

[dull kelp]

nena suli

[dull kelp]

soweli seli

[uncut willow]

extinguishing seli with telo?

[dull kelp]

thats a smart idea

and also

I got really creative with sijelo (Its dead)

[uncut willow]

looks like soweli lape

also the seli particles are in front of the keyboard

which is only mildly annoying

[dull kelp]

oh

[dull kelp]

Is this better

[uncut willow]

moli

the thing with sijelo is that it means different things depending on context

[dull kelp]

yes, and I got really creative with that, right?

[uncut willow]

yeah

[dull kelp]

and the game.. is... finished...

😔 no more coding

🥺

😭😭😭😭😭 oh wait

I can get suggestions

and bugs

so yes more coding

oooh

wait

there is poki that i din't add

poki

[uncut willow]

poki tona

[dull kelp]

kili loje basketball

do yall got any ideas?

[uncut willow]

you could make tomo a big structure that you can walk into

but make it unpickupable

only destroyable by ilo maybe

[dull kelp]

okay, but later

[dull kelp]

nope

you mean adjectives? that exists

that... can count as an "adjective" In my game

yeah kinda

I added mute

[mellow pawn]

what about making non-colored objects transparent? like just "kili" is circuit of fruit, but "kili loje" is a red apple

[dull kelp]

hmm

nope, it looks better the way it is

[uncut willow]

kijetesantakalu suli suli

linja monsi ona li nasa

[dull kelp]

lon,"suli ilo" li nasa (the engine that makes the images bigger is kinda glitchy)

[uncut willow]

tool for enlarging would be rather ilo suli

[dull kelp]

yeah, I always mess up adjectives

[dull kelp]

oh

yeah

I need to fix that

but I'm making another game with toki pona, Its going to be on another post btw

bc its dead

you can pick it up

nope

I didn't een finish the first version

after i do that I'm gonna make a post

[uncut willow]

when typing the a and b inputs also go to the world

when i type a letter the cat picks up a thing if there is one nearby and when deleting a letter he throws it

[dull kelp]

what

oh

[uncut willow]

oh and now the game is a different game

it says ma mi instead of pali musi

but i used the same link

[dull kelp]

OH NO

O SHOOT

[uncut willow]

did you accidentally delete everything

but the keyboard is the same

[dull kelp]

REFRESH

REFRESH AND AND IT SHOULD FIX

[uncut willow]

pali musi is back

[dull kelp]

I accidently gave you spoiler for my new game

spoilers*

[uncut willow]

[dull kelp]

I'm gonna make a post for it now

[uncut willow]

anyway here’s the bug from earlier

[dull kelp]

I made it

[cold flame]

ill play jt soon!

[dull kelp]

okay

[plucky sonnet]

sina pali e ni kepeken nasin seme?!

[mellow pawn]

https://arcade.makecode.com