p8per snowflakes

This app is a submission to the 2024 Pico-8 Advent Jam that creates digital folded paper snowflakes!

Cut a pattern into the digitally folded paper. Click "unfold" to reveal your masterpiece! Then save an image of your snowflake to share with friends, family, or right here on itch.io!

Detailed Instructions:

When you load the cart you are greeted by the welcome screen which shows an example paper snowflake unfolding.

To get started making your own snowflake, click "make" from the welcome screen. This takes you to the snowflake cutting screen where you will design your snowflake.

You can use the knife tool to cut away portions of the folded snowflake. Move the knife with the mouse and left click to cut. The folded snowflake is divided into small triangles and each time you click with the knife, you will remove a triangle.

You can also add back paper that you cut away by using the glue stick. This works exactly the same way as the knife, except you add paper when you click on a triangle that has already been cut.

With both the knife and glue stick tools, you can click and drag. When click and dragging, the action you are doing (cutting or adding back paper) stays the same for the duration of the mouse drag.

Once you are happy with your design, you can click "unfold" to see your masterpiece unfold.

From the preview screen, you can click "edit" to refine the design further, or "share" to prepare your snowflake for sharing with friends, family, and the itch.io!

On the share screen you can click "next msg" to cycle through various holiday greetings to include, and "save img" to export a screenshot of your snowflake with the message. If you are accessing the cart via a web browser on the bbs, this will cause a popup to appear on the website that includes a copy of your snowflake that you can save or copy (i.e., by right clicking or long-pressing). If you are playing with a pico 8 binary, this will save the snowflake to your desktop.