Advanced door (but still space for improvement)

A few days ago, we received a new challenge from our admin: make a door. As I went through his tutorial, I got a few ideas, but a special one - doors can be more than just "open/close". So, while running 🏃‍➡️ (I do run a lot), I come to those lines:

make bigger doors,
implement more than just open/close and
interaction is up to the player.

MAKE A BIGGER DOOR

Here, I soon came to the idea of using two sprites next to each other. While drawing (still new to Pico-8 and Lua!) I found out I can flip the sprite. So, I delete all "right" sprites 🤣 and keep only the left ones.

IMPLEMENT MORE THAN JUST OPEN/CLOSE

Okay, I didn't know what else to do, maybe locking, but that wasn't the point of this learning process. I've added a feature to my sliding doors, allowing them to slide up or down.

INTERACTION WITH PLAYER

(Maybe you already found out that English is not my strongest suit 😀)

Later, while coding, I came up with the idea that doors slide down when the player is behind or above them and slide up when the player is in front of/under them.

As this platform doesn't allow nice code formatting, I'm attaching a p8 file. Also, that you have sprites. Keep in mind - I'm on 7% of Pixel Art for Game Devs! 🤣

Space for improvement or to-dos

Doors are positioned in the middle of the screen without walls, which constitutes a significant security breach 😉
You can walk through doors.
Doors should open only when the player is close to them.
... all above can be easily achieved, as this one does not know how to do ...
The player is positioned on a layer lower than the doors, but when it's in front of them (at the bottom part of the screen), it should be positioned on a layer above the doors.

Lua is my new language, so I believe that some lines of code are over-complicated ... but this is (mine) a learning curve 😀

Arrows - moving player ... X - opening doors

Cheers, Marko 🎮

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