Still kicking on The Weave!
After 6+ months juggling projects like Sleigh Chase & @gamerconfamilia.bsky.social, "talkie version" of the tech demo, with Animalese-style voices, is released
Check the full devlog: geese-bumps.itch.io/the-weave/de...
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We’ve published the English version of the Sleigh Chase devlog 🙂
It’s a practical, open-source guide for retro developers on how to speed up game development using OpenAI Codex as a copilot
All code, assets, and resources are fully open source
geese-bumps.itch.io/sleigh-chase...
¿Habéis probado Sleigh Chase, nuestro juego navideño para Megadrive?
Es simple, simpático, y se termina en cinco o diez minutos si le coges mínimamente el truco, así que es la excusa perfecta para desempolvar la Mega y jugar con los peques 😃
geese-bumps.itch.io/sleigh-chase
All code by Codex (OpenAI), graphics by Nano Banana, SFX by Eleven Labs... only the music is human-made (Haddhar)!
First 16-bit game created with AI, fully open source.
Tech breakdown (Spanish only, sorry):
geese-bumps.itch.io/sleigh-chase...
SLEIGH CHASE is OUT! 🎅
The first 16-bit console game coded 100% by AI.
Three Christmas minigames for Mega Drive celebrating the holidays & 2026. Free ROM, runs on real hardware!
Download:
geese-bumps.itch.io/sleigh-chase
¿Cómo lo hicimos? Todo el código escrito por Codex (OpenAI), gráficos con Nano Banana, sonido con Eleven Labs... ¡solo la música es humana (Haddhar)!
El primer juego de 16 bits creado con IA, open source completo.
Guía técnica:
geese-bumps.itch.io/sleigh-chase...
¡SLEIGH CHASE ya está aquí! El primer juego para consolas de 16 bits programado al 100% por IA.
Tres minijuegos navideños para Mega Drive que celebran Navidad y Año Nuevo 2026. ¡Gratis y jugable en hardware real!
Descárgalo:
geese-bumps.itch.io/sleigh-chase
You will hear from us soon 😉
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Friendly reminder of The Weave is an open-source project
Have you ever wanted to make a game for the console you played as a kid? Join us!
youtube.com/shorts/Jpzi5...
The Weave now has three distinct Animal Crossing-style voices that smoothly adapt to both Spanish and English text. What do you think?
Thanks @zxprojects.bsky.social for your tips 😉
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I’m progressing on text presentation: each character now has its own “voice,” with gibberish in the style of Animal Crossing or Sims. Voices are pregenerated using Google Text to Speech and preprocessed into short syllables that play synced with the on-screen text (work in progress)
I'm alive!
After the last public beta I took a break… and made the mistake of buying Baldur’s Gate 3. But I’m finally back!
Today’s update adds a small text flash effect (you can speed it up by pressing A)
🎉 Characters can now move at fractional speeds!
The hero walks at 1.5x speed, and the mother at 0.75x.
Sounds trivial, right?
Well, I had to rewrite ALL the movement code to use non-integer types. It nearly killed me 😵💫
Merci beaucoup pour la mention ! ☺️
Les news rétro de la semaine, dont une suite spirituelle sur Mega Drive par @geesebumpsgames.bsky.social du point & click culte Loom... mag.mo5.com/271279/une-s...
Download it right now on itch, and please give me feedback!
Thanks a lot 😊
geese-bumps.itch.io/the-weave
✨ New technical demo is out! ✨
After 6 months of work, I can finally show you the latest progress on The Weave!
🎮 Completely rewritten engine
🎨 All graphics and animations redrawn by hand, pixel by pixel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK3T...
✅ Dual color font support!
Almost everything ready for a new tech demo release with almost the brand new graphics 😎
Once I finish polishing a few final details and bugs, I'll FINALLY upload a new tech demo to Itch. Stay tuned!
✅ Almost all graphics have been redrawn since the last demo
✅ Almost all the code has been rewritten from scratch
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Finally done refactoring the entire game code (roughly 70%!) 🎉
New structures, cleaner & more robust functions — yet simple and easy to manage.
Combat is working again, with new features and lots of bugs squashed
#gamedev #retrodev #homebrew #SegaMegadrive #SegaGenesis #Loom
I've just seen there's a mention on the same page for the @bytemaniacos.com 2025 BASIC Competition, which also includes a small game I made myself — so I could say I appear not once, but twice on that page! 😜
geese-bumps.itch.io/zxd
Waiting for the Retro Gamer magazine Issue 272 to come home 🥰
It's been a long way since the first time my name was in a Magazine, in Micro Hobby Issue 166 in 1985, four decades ago
I haven't forgotten about you!
The next version of the tech demo will be an almost complete overhaul of the entire visual aspect, with new graphics and lots of new animations. Please be patient! 😉
Testing animations for the Weavers Ghosts
There’s little time left until issue #005 of @brewotaku.bsky.social is released, where my small BASIC project for the ZX Spectrum, ZXD, will have its own little space. Many thanks for the review! 😉
First test of the new hand-pixeled graphics for the introduction scene, now running on the game engine
Kid's awake. Enough for today!
Finally back to pixel art after two tough weeks since I installed Civilization VII and ran out of free time. It's about time to replace the remaining AI placeholders.
