Frédérick Raynal, the director of the original Alone in the Dark is kickstarting a new genesis game - a remake and expansion of his old arkanoid Popcorn - and a paddle controller to go with it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/107...
Background + sprite animation (the ship is now pre-rendered) and... tunnels ! I think I can add more gameplay elements and stay at 30fps, there is hope, the megadrive is a beast :o
Jumping! I want the driving to feel smooth and arcadey like a Sega Rally. I was never a big fan of Wipeout's physics, but I love the graphics obviously :)
Side quest in texture land... DMA is on it's knee and interrupts are eating a good chunk of CPU on #SegaMegadrive #SGDK #BlastEm
I reworked the camera, improved clipping and rewrote the physics with acceleration and drift, the feel is better now
So mayyybe it's possible to render in 4 colors, it takes 20% more cpu but two palettes of 16 colors are then free for sprites and background #SGDK #SegaMegadrive
Only 2 colors, but finally some stable 30fps 3d without line-doubling (256x128 or 320x128 pixels) on stock Sega Megadrive :) The bottleneck is the height of the polygons. I exhausted all my ideas so I don't think I can do faster at this resolution.
Improved this more, there were a few single frame hitches that I've squashed out
The first page spread of the manual is shown. You see the Giants Software logo and copyright on the left, and on the right it has detailed instructions for cartridge insertion and making sure you have the console off when you put it in, and have your cables connected, and all that kind of stuff. Feels very much what they would have said if it came out in the 90s.
The project came about because one of the devs was messing with @stephane-d.bsky.social's SGDK and they decided to give them space to make it. Though it was announced April 1, it's a proper game and comes with a downloadable emulator executable! I appreciate how seriously the manual treats the game.
After years of hard work, our retro-inspired shooter Earthion finally has its own home online.
Dive into the world, watch the new trailer, and hear a track made entirely with the Megadrive’s YM2612 sound chip.
Now viewable in English and Portuguese:
earthiongame.com
Super excited to share that Backwards Quest won Best Game at the NESmaker Byte-Off Awards at MGC! Big thanks to the awesome @nesmaker.bsky.social team, and congrats to my partners-in-crime Artix, Fernando, and Jordan!
➡️ theretroverse.com/product/back...
#NES #homebrew #nesdev #indiegames #ファミコン
Trying raycasting again youtu.be/viGHLhuKa-E
GGS Studio Creation and Broke Studios launched a franchise with The Cursed Knight, a wonderful mix of genres that delivers a solid dose of old school gaming. It has charm, great presentation, and that wonderfully frustrating gameplay we all love.
www.sega-16.com/2025/03/curs...
more Sega Genesis stuff, here's the first witchy battle theme for @nosebecc.bsky.social's (NSFW!!!) game, featuring what would become one of the game's other leitmotifs
I added some new tile types to Gilgamech...
- Death, Damage, and Conveyor L/R tiles
Here's a screenshot of my test level. You can also check out a video of these in action by joining my free Patreon dev diary.
www.patreon.com/posts/welcom...
#SGDK #Gilgamech #GameDev #IndieDev
One of the many reasons #SGDK is such a valuable Genesis game dev tool is its automation of creating multi-sprite objects for characters. I recently got a new version of Blastem that lets me see exactly how sprites are structured and it's very interesting 🤯
#GameDev #IndieDev #Gilgamech
Now that the Square Brothers Megadrive port is finished and tested, we started a new game!
We wanted to try something with constant palette swapping to try that engine module!
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#sgdk #megadrive #mdengine
Whatever happened to secret codes and sound tests? #screenshotsaturday #sgdk #segagenesis #megadrive #gamedev
Repost of my 60 fps raycaster with texture on the original Sega Megadrive/Genesis. Find the rom here -> anael.maratis3d.com/mega/ #SGDK
Also 60 fps, custom tri/quads and wireframe 3d on Sega Megadrive/Genesis :p
The simple power of k-means clustering for lossy compression : 1120 tiles are needed on the left (uncompressed), 512 tiles on the right. On Sega Megadrive with #SGDK
Unbelievably, 35 years after its US launch, there are enough new games coming for the Sega Genesis that it can be hard to keep track.
Now, you don't have to! I've launched the Mega Drive Tracker, a site that catalogs all the new physical releases coming to Sega's 16-bit console.
md.restartmag.com
XBand menu with four icons: X-Mail, Bandwidth, XBand News, Return.
I heard rumors of a service called X-Mail coming soon, I wonder if this is it?
Master Pigsy shares with us his progress on Castlevania Symphony of the Night for Sega Mega Drive.
youtu.be/X98SNoqGaUM
#sega #megadrive #segagenesis #castlevania #sotn #indiedev #retrodev #indiegame #retrogame #sgdk #homebrew
My hobby is making a new Sega Genesis aka Mega Drive game.
Today I designed and implemented a turret enemy. Here is my plan for the trigger boxes. I had to make them a little larger to get it t working just right.
See more on my Patreon
#gamedev #segagenesis #SGDK #megadrive #gilgamech
True Galactic Mission WIP#1
(Mega Drive / Sega Genesis)
youtu.be/vc8YDqBvnd8
#DavilaGames #TrueGalacticMission #MegaDrive #SegaGenesis #SGDK #RetroGaming #RetroGame #RetroGames #ShootEmUp #SHMUP #Sega #TecToy #GameDev #RetroDev
Lunatic Fighters WIP#2
(Mega Drive / Sega Genesis)
youtu.be/_QGxbhXUQfA
#DavilaGames #SGDK #MegaDrive #SegaGenesis #GameDev #GameDevelopment #LunaticFighters #LF #RetroGame #RetroGames #RetroGaming #RetroGameDev #GameDeveloper #Game #Games #RetroDev #FightingGame #FightingGames
