sebotron | working on an NES JRPG!

Making good progress with field spell casting!

User Ceddy on our Discord server just shared these drawings they did inspired by our little 16x16 character sprites and I have to say I am very touched to be inspiring people like that, especially so early in development. 💙

oh my god the hype is unbearable

In Super Sunny World 🌞, my upcoming NES platformer, each level will feature 5 hidden SUPER Flower Coins.

These are designed as an extra challenge for players who have already mastered the game!

Will you find all 160? 🌼

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Small NES project I’m currently working on! 🚤 🪵 💦

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Today I reintegrated RLE decoding into the scrolling functions, freeing up 16KB of RAM I used to decode the whole map into.

At that point there was no reason not to move to MMC3 rather than MMC1 so I did. Now we have a much faster mapper and twice the program space for stories, graphics and music!

Ikr! Haven't finished it in years tho - too much to do 😫😅

for ONCE I'm cooler than you!

Turns out coming up w/ creative names for gear and somewhat keeping a balance is more mentally challenging than coding so I'm going to take a little break and play some Dragon Warrior 4!

Getting a huge nerd kick out of designing a weapons list and tweaking attack power progression curves for each archetype.

In The Book of Rynn, "Archetypes" are "functional" whereas "class" is a lore-friendly denominator. Ex: "Town guard" would be a class, "soldier" would be its archetype.

Flashing screen warning (near the end)! I've been working on spell casting in the overworld. Trying to keep it accurate but will allow disabling screen flashes in-game. And yes, we have a spell called "Poof".

This is my first NES game and a JRPG isn't the easiest to start with. My code was badly organized and space mgmt was a nightmare so I decided to restructure and broke everything so I had to start fresh and reimplement better. Good news is I'll be back to where I left off in a couple days! 😅

I started reimplementing all my progress with a better strategy for using the very limited space of a NES game but I'm hoping to be able to share new stuff soon!

Bunch of people posting about a sudden influx of followers. I had the same. I smell shenanigans 🤔 Anyway, back to work.

That purple shell is just 😍

Officially back to working on the game after a 2 month break. Started fresh w/ a better banking strategy and we already have music playing w/ 2 full banks reserved for music and sfx 🥳

Next: graphics and that damned scrolling ⚔️

do it! 🎣

it better be an action fishing game

Because it *is* the best one! It's the vibes!

Same! I'm most excited about the addition of Prince of Cannock's sister! Wonder if it's gonna make the game easier or the infamous endgame grind more manageable

Glad to see more DQ2 fans come out of the woodwork! 💪

Hope y'all having a great Dragon Quest Day! To celebrate, I'm still not working on the game 🤦‍♂️

DQ2 superior club 🙋‍♂️

Mine actually had a save on it already! Otherwise, replacing the battery is fairly easy! The game is absolutely worth it!

This week's pickup! The label is in pristine condition too!

In other news, still busy with non-gamedev work but hoping to get back on the saddle soon 💪

They're hard to actually rank for me tbh it's a real struggle!

Haha but seriously tho NES dq2 > dq3 > dq4 imho - at least for the vibes. Mechanics-wise I think 3 is superior, it's what I'm basing my own game on!

dq2 is superior and i'll die on that hill

Yes. I've been coding for 24 years and can confirm.

Have to finish an Angular app I've been working on for a little while but game updates will be back soon!