When you want to finish your NES game but you can't stop making new towns and secret areas 🙃

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Thanks for sharing, Dale!

The interior of Swampmaster's mythical Mount Dekatar area is inhabited by ice frogs, endless bats, and mystical, multicolored mushrooms!

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Gets pretty got in these lava tunnels

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Swampmaster™ NES Development Updates - February 2026 YouTube video by Caldeum Games

Check out our February 2026 Swampmaster™ Development video!

It's been a long while since I did a video update, so I wanted to show you all some of the monsters, items, save functionality, and other features we've developed. Come see what's new with the in-dev NES adventure game Swampmaster™!

WOW what a difference between this 1996 Sony CRT TV and the last one I tested... colors look amazing!

Testing #Swampmaster on multiple TVs helps with measuring overscan so I can make sure players have an optimal experience across different devices.

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First time testing out Swampmaster (in-development) on the real NES hardware with a TV! Pretty cool.

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In the world of Swampmaster the trees harbor ancient wisdom... If only we understood their words they might bestow upon us ancient relics of great power.

Follow us for updates on the development of Swampmaster for the NES!

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Must be some way across the river to get that heart piece...

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Today I just put together a beauty: a transparent black NES 😍
It matches perfectly with my 8bitDo wireless controllers.
An ideal machine to enjoy wonderful new games! 🥰☕️

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Thanks Dale!

A forest maze of mushrooms, breakable blocks, and a treasure chest holding a random item! All this and more in the world of Swampmaster, coming soon* for the NES!

*okay not THAT soon, but eventually!

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Having a blast composing 8-bit music for our upcoming *Swampmaster* NES adventure game! This is likely to be used as boss (final boss!?) music.

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Creating some ominous underworlds for Swampmaster

Think I finally got the HUD sorted out so that everything fits! Plus we now have location names 😎 Now, were it not for all the trees, we'd still know to a certainty that we are clearly in the WOODS.

Swampmaster - A new NES game in development! The story so far. YouTube video by Caldeum - Retro Games and Music

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJR...

How to escape this Swampmaster dungeon full of tricks and traps? A new NES game we're creating at Caldeum!

Beautiful looking platformer!

Love the color palette. This looks really fun!

A mysterious, frozen underground cavern that leads into unknown depths...

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The New 8-bit Heroes, Trailer #2 YouTube video by The New 8-bit Heroes

Did you also want to design NES games when you were a kid? With NES Maker a lot of us now rekindling that passion as an adult and it's just as fun as ever. We've come a long way from drawing Mario maps with pencil and paper. Check out the NES Maker community for more great NES projects.

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As a big fan of oldschool game randomizers (Zelda 2!), I'm working on scripting as many randomizable elements as possible in Swampmaster to enhance replay value. No telling what item this treasure chest will give.

Made some accidental glitch art via an actual glitch when I was trying to code something in NESMaker today for Swampmaster, ha!

Swampmaster - A new NES game in development! The story so far. YouTube video by Caldeum - Retro Games and Music

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJR...