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YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation We're Dumping 125 Mystery Prototype ROMs!

ICYMI: the Video Game History Foundation just acquired a giant lot of mystery development ROMs from Japan (NES/MSX, from Taito?), and we're going to digitize and dissect them live on stream next Thursday, June 4th at 1pm PDT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nFA...

Browsing for secrets in a haunted library 📚👻
#gamedev #pixelart #indiegame

BIG NEWS! Thanks to the amazing support for #EchoesOfTheUnread on #Kickstarter, we're now aiming for amazing stretch goals! Our target is $25K for #Steam, and $30K for #NintendoSwitch! 📖✨

Help us achieve these goals with Rhapsody: bit.ly/MCSEUKSSM
Read the full update: bit.ly/MCSEOTUKSU1

Echoes of the Unread – A New 8-Bit Musical Adventure Sing, play, and adventure your way through this magical 8-bit NES quest!

Fully funded in 24 hours?!?!

Thank you to everyone who's supported the game. I'm overwhelmed with emotion.

bit.ly/MCSEUKSSM

Thank you so much for the support over the year and a half! It was a huge motivator to finish the game.

Thanks to @megacatstudios.bsky.social for making the awesome trailer!

YouTube video by Mega Cat Studios Echoes of the Unread - Official Gameplay Trailer

Official Gameplay Trailer for Echoes of the Unread
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2qB...

Coming to Kickstarter May 19th!

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT

We are thrilled to launch Homebrew Factory, our new platform that allows gamers to purchase homebrew games and helps creators bring their games to life!

➡️ Store: www.homebrew-factory.com

➡️ Factory: creator.homebrew-factory.com

Play as Rhapsody and escape the library that holds a magical mystery about the shelves that came to life! 📖✨

Follow #EchoesOfTheUnread on Kickstarter: bit.ly/MCSEUKSSM

Did you know that MMC5 also has a feature called vertical split where it can switch tilemaps mid-line? Turns out it's possible to make SNES-style shaped windows out of this by changing split position each line!
#nesdev

Here is one of the puppets I made.

What are these goofy looking creatures? Puppets! When I was younger I was in a puppet troupe, performing skits that featured aliens, kind of like the Muppets. I wanted to honor them in my game, as one of the performers sadly passed away from cancer a few years ago.

Samus Aran isn't the first playable female protagonist. She isn't even Nintendo's first.

The topic of the first playable female protagonist isn't as cut-and-dried as folks might like to think. There are many flavors of first, which trips people up. Who was the first on arcade, computer, home console? In the US, Japan, Europe? I'll try to unravel it for you here in a thread. 🧵

I have a similar affliction. Persona 4 and Super Metroid are some of my favs as well. I gravitate toward making Metroidvania games because it’s what I like to play.

Project Reid, the upcoming game from @lavenstar-games.bsky.social, looks incredibly promising, a survival platformer for the FC/NES! 😍👍☕️

#NES #homebrew #nesdev #NESmaker #indiegames #gamedev #ファミコン #同人ゲーム

Nine years ago, I made a Super Mario Bros. ROM hack as a gift for my sister's birthday. It featured the two of us running to get coffee at the end of each level. #nes #mario #family

If you were stuck in a library overnight what would you do?

Trapped in a library of living books? Sounds like an adventure! 📖✨

Join Rhapsody on her journey through #EchoesOfTheUnread. Sing, explore, and conquer unique worlds inspired by different genres.

Follow on #Kickstarter: bit.ly/MCSEUKSSM

I've been programming for 20 years and learning to code can feel like a foreign language for quite a while. I've not met a programmer where everything clicked the first time. Keep pushing through and the barriers will break down. You got this!

You'll get there! Skills get better with practice and making mistakes. I've made a lot of prototypes and games over the years. Also, most of the art are assets that I modified with a bunch of code to stick it all together.

Yep

Since I'm mostly in bug fix mode on my other game, I thought I'd mess around in #Godot for a bit. #indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Nice! Impressive you can move the character while the dialogue is shown. In hindsight, I wish I would have gone with something more like this to have room for more dialogue.

Just a reminder that your local library has more than just books! Many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, internet hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and so so much more! Maybe it's time for a visit!

This is wizardry I say! Nice work on the screen splits.

GB Studio has come to the NES!

You can build games for the NES, using the world-class toolset found in GB Studio! #gbstudio #gameboy #nesdev

github.com/michel-iwani...

Super Metroid shows you missile doors before getting a missile upgrade

Game design wisdom: show the lock before the key. You don't want to rob players of an "AHA!" moment. #gamedev #gamedesign #leveldesign

I should have let the bats sleep. #nes #screenshotsaturday

This sprite is hidden behind the black bar.

How it looks to the NES. Grabbed from FCEUX.

NES dev trick: Need to show a banner but you can't rely on scroll position? Use sprite zero! Draw the banner on both nametables, put the first sprite under the top left of the banner, and then loop to scroll the correct amount when it's hit. #nesdev

Overworld map (work in progress, it misses some animations right now) for my upcoming game Anna: The Magic of Words for NES and Famicom. #NESdev #indienes #indiedev #eastpixel #anna