Wrapping up the year with December’s Homebrew NES Calendar pick: 8-Bit Xmas 2021 by #RetroUSB, the perfect NES game for the holiday season! 🎄
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I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file.
PDFs support Javascript, so Emscripten is used to compile Doom to asm.js, which is then run within the PDF engine. Input/output is done by manipulating text input fields.
doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf
github.com/ading2210/do...
Surprise, I'm working on an official guide for the original Mega Man! Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man is coming to Kickstarter next week thanks to @nfpublishing.bsky.social! I'm excited to share more with you all in the coming days!
🔥 Cozy up to a digital fireplace with Sierra On-Line's "A Computer Christmas" (1986). 🎄💾 This vintage software's Yule Log vibe reminds us why preserving digital works matters.
🎁 See the whole card. ➡️ archive.org/details/sier...
Preservation #Christmas #vanishingculture
Well, everything comes in the end... We are pleased to announce that, after more than 5 years of intense work, #malasombra is entering its final phase of development. So here we are now, fixing bugs and making performance improvements. Very happy to share this milestone with you!
#nes #nesdev
Looking great!
Did some work on the opening moments of Even Goblins Fall In Love where Lin departs on their quest after getting gifts from their adoptive mother, Misia.
#indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #screenshotsaturday
For the past 5 years I've been using this tool I made called Binxelview to reverse engineer game graphics and map data from all sorts of different games. If you're curious about it, here's a visual tour of the program.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GAP...
My favorite of the 8bit Xmas series. You can buy a physical copy or download the ROM here:
www.retrousb.com/product/8-bi...
To close out the year, this month is dedicated to the 8bit Xmas 2018 game from RetroUSB! 🎄
Happy holidays to everyone! Can’t wait to see what 2025 has in store for us.
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Another scene from project 'borscht'.
100% NES compatible, colours carefully laid out in the 16x16 attribute grid.
Close friend of mine here. Hate every time I'm reminded about how much suffering America's employment-based private insurance scams cause. Please support if you can.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ja...
The 2025 NES Homebrew Calendars are up for sale on my new Etsy store! Featuring 12 incredible homebrew games, with special cover art by Nate Ehlers!
Make sure you select the listing based on where you live: US/Canada or the rest of the world when purchasing.
www.etsy.com/shop/TheScro...
In '22, @frankengraphics.bsky.social and I ran a 12-week NESDev Weekly Graphics challenge series, over which a participant would create the vast majority of the graphics needed for an authentic NES/Famicom platformer.
Those challenge prompts have been collected here:
www.mteegfx.com/learn/challe...
I’m a little late, but it’s November! And this month, the spotlight is on OverObj, the superb and challenging shmup developed by Little Sound for FAMICOM & NES! 😍
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I'm so excited to play this!!
Did we dig up a totally unseen Atari 2600 game from 1984, programmed by one of the few women creating console games in the early 1980s?
And did we interview her?
Yes we did.
Atari 50's "The First Console War" DLC, out November 8.
Thanks to the folks at @retrotainmentgames.bsky.social I will stream a demo of Haunted: Halloween '87 (Year of the Witch) at 10pm Eastern, in honor of Halloween and the HH87 Kickstarter closing *tomorrow*. Then I'll play HH86, which, I uh, still haven't finished. www.youtube.com/live/Zw0BlOZ...
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A brave, young goblin in an orange scarf holding a dagger stands on a green field in front of a blue sky.
Boxed copy of Gunhawk, a Zapper game for the NES. Includes manual, red decoder, game cart, cartridge sleeve, foam insert, and box.
At Skyboy Games, we make new games for the NES.
Our current WIP project is Even Goblins Fall In Love, a JRPG about a goblin who goes on a quest to prove their love for a princess.
Visit this link to support us:
skyboygames.com/static/Skybo...
Goblin image by @ursamajorgamma.bsky.social
Box art for Fire and Rescue, an indie NES game, showing two cartoon firefighters rescuing a person from a burning building
Box back for Fire and Rescue, featuring various screenshots of the game
Fire and Rescue is an indie game for the NES where you (and a friend) put out fires and rescue people.
It is available as a ROM (skyboygames.itch.io/fire-and-res...) or as a physical NES cartridge (skyboygames.com/store/#fire_...).
Steam version coming soon:
store.steampowered.com/app/2784030/...
Awesome indie game dev thread! 👇
Here's my first starter pack!
Immerse yourself in the world of current NES and GB development.
A small curated list to get your toes wet.
Bsky provides a handy "follow all" button.
go.bsky.app/PD1jWn4
Some of you i know from tw/x, but lots of you are new faces, so i’m just going to start dripping my best-ofs.
This is 100% NES displayable without cartridge expansions on its own. Cat & gold chain as sprites. Using emphasis bits to narrow colours towards cold.
Intended for one of my game projects
The poster sleeves and largest poster unfolded. Has map on the backside 🙂
Welcome to all new Twitter refugees!
I'm Nathan, a retro homebrew developer (NES, 2600, GBA, etc). Many of my games are free downloads, so come check them out.
www.bitethechili.com
One more
Missed the poster and other goodies
Game Commerical
youtu.be/AhbaYMYxC5E
Screenshots from itch:
