For #SelfPromoSaturday we present this new video review of Allison Of Astra: The Complete First Season, the electric new multicart now available on Kickstarter! Nine days remain...Seven games, one 2 meg cart, one massive adventure!

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Drakenmaid by Orebody Inc. A dark 8-bit sci-fi fairy tale about a girl and a dragon.

The Drakenmaid Byte-Off 6 demo is now available on @itch.io!

Help guide a young girl and dragon through a dangerous mountain while hunted by alien slavers in this dark sci-fi fairy tale for the NES!

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We’ve re-uploaded a full playthrough of the Byte-Off demo for our next NES project: Drakenmaid

Had to add a few more things before the deadline.

Spoilers ahead, so avoid if you want to play the demo fresh.

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We’ve uploaded a full playthrough of the Byte-Off demo for our next NES project: Drakenmaid

Spoilers abound, so avoid if you want to play the demo fresh when it goes live next week!

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First attempt at animating the background 🤷‍♂️

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Margarita waves a giant "EXTENDED" banner while Allison lifts a pair of sunglasses and winks at the camera

Allison Of Astra: The Complete First Season cartridge photo

EXTENDED! Cool news: the Allison of Astra Kickstarter has been granted an extra SEVEN DAYS to reach its goal! The NES multicart is now available through April 7! Help us make it happen!!

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www.kickstarter.com/projects/163...

A tiny Allison lighting the fuse to a giant bomb

The cart, package and manual

We've got just ONE WEEK left in the Allison of Astra Kickstarter, which means it's time to make some NOISE! Allison has it covered. She'll be fine, she's wearing a helmet. Get your pledges in TODAY!

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I added a really satisfying screen shake when Murti gets hit, tweaked the flashing timer, and fixed the coinage.

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A screenshot of CrossPaint, displaying an image that renders 200 colors on the canvas [excluding the UI], by using every combination of the NES PPU's color emphasis bits + monochrome bit on the background and sprites.

Have you ever seen an NES game render 200+ colors on screen?

I'm SLOWLY working on the rest of CrossPaint's 16 sample images. This one shows all color emphasis combos + monochrome mode on sprites and BG.

Color emphasis on every line is pretty cool :)
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We’re cooking up a new game for Byte-Off, and the plan is for this to be the next big project.

Welcome back to Orebody. Welcome to Drakenmaid.

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Here's the latest news for Murtop on the NES 📰📢

Added:

- Screen transition (subtle, but it's there!)
- Sprites for the points.
- Invincibility timer.
- Flashing background when hit.

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I had to remove some of the bomb's sprites, but I think it looks cool in black.

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Turns out grouping variables by type can save memory on the NES 🤯

unsigned char lala;
unsigned char lele;

unsigned int lili;
unsigned int lolo;

After doing this (and a lot of other tweaks), I went from ~1KB to ~3KB free! 🥳

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Allison Of Astra: An NES Homebrew Multicart SEVEN games, ONE cart...ONE MASSIVE UNIVERSE!

2) Those who bring in the most eyeballs will get tailor-made art depicting Allison, Margarita or both doing WHATEVER you can think up! (In good taste.)
Enter the contest today!

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Here are stages 0, 16, 32, and 48*:

0 - Base
16 - Flip H
32 - Flip V
48 - Flip H+V

* I add +1 to the stage index for display purposes

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The lookup table is gone! We just saved 32 bytes 🎉

Since every element is the same size, I can calculate the address directly.

Thanks to @saffroncr.bsky.social for pointing it out :)

Here's how I do it 👇

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Allison Of Astra: An NES Homebrew Multicart SEVEN games, ONE cart...ONE MASSIVE UNIVERSE!

And don't forget the ALLISON OF ASTRA KICKSTARTER! Because I won't let you forget! Now in its third week..but there aren't an infinite number of weeks, so please show your support today!

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Here's how I fit 256 unique stages into just 224 bytes in the NES version of Murtop. I'm so low on memory that I had to pack everything as tightly as possible. Any tips on how to improve it are welcome 🙂

Let's start a thread 🧵👇

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Later on I'll explain how I fit 256 unique stages into just 224 bytes in the NES version of Murtop 🤯

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#selfpromosaturday seems like a good time to mention my Kickstarter. Not yet two weeks old and already over halfway to its goal -- but still needs your support to make it the rest of the way!

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Aquest és el màxim de sprites (64) que hi caben en una pantalla de la NES. Queda prou bé, oi? :)

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Sabeu què? Porto més de mig any amb el port de Murtop per a la NES sense utilitzar Git ni cap altra tipus de còpia de seguretat 😅 🐶🔥

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El meu plantejament amb el port de Murtop per a la NES és intentar tenir el mateix contingut que el joc original i després anar reduint funcionalitats perquè càpiga dins dels 32 KB. Està sent realment complicat 🥲

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Allison Of Astra: An NES Homebrew Multicart SEVEN games, ONE cart...ONE MASSIVE UNIVERSE!

Seven interconnected episodes. Seven worlds. One living shoe named Booty. Back Allison of Astra by our friend Peter Paltridge on Kickstarter now.
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Em sembla que les roques ja son prou aleatories. I de moment ja fem amb una sola roca. No ens emocionem, que després vénen els problemes de memòria :P

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He començat a treballar en els blocs de roca que cauen del cel i creen camins aleatoris. També he aprofitat per crear una animació simple de l'"Star-Nosed".

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Allison Of Astra: The Complete First Season is live on Kickstarter now -- A history-making 2-meg MULTICART with seven episodes in one! Allison is now available and coming to an NES near YOU!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/163...

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First attempt at the explosion effect 💣💥

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Seriously, if I pull this off, I expect every one of you to buy the NES cartridge of Murtop when it comes out 😜😂

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I'm running out of memory/space at the speed of light 😅

In this case, I'm talking about sprites.
But I need Talpy to have its rock 😌

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