Nathan Tolbert

Absolutely required. Along with having an ice and a fire level.

When I was making Anguna 2600, by the end, I was so low on space that every new line of code involved 30 minutes of searching for a place to optimize and free up 3-4 bytes. The last few features were PAINFULLY slow.

A quick reminder that our Homebrew Factory service allows creators to produce and finance physical versions of their NES, Game Boy, GBC, and Mega Drive/Genesis games.

You can also follow all these projects on the dedicated account @homebrew-factory.com

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put-put-put-ing into the new year. Lots of new stuff coming so stay tuned! #nesdev #gamedev

Proof of purchase tokens trimmed from the packaging of 1980's Star Wars toys.

Found these while cleaning my office. Am I too late to exchange them for an Anakin Skywalker figure?

Finally starting on the boss fights for my upcoming NES adventure game Halcyon....

Boss graphics by FJ
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A large adventure game like Halcyon can be difficult to adequately demo at a convention, so I'm working on a build that will have 3 "save files" initialized on the cartridge that will let you jump to and experience different parts of the game.

I'm excited to get to show off Halcyon at Magfest this year! Come check it out!

Does it rework the play control at all? Some of the non-standard control mechanics made the previous demo harder to play than I expected. (The inability to attack while holding forward on the D-Pad, or the inability to jump full height if you're pressing forward into a barrier, etc)

What's different about this from the previous release?

Here's the functioning inn system. Scribes can also save games now but I'm not done with them as they also need to revive and remove poison. I got a linker surprise this morning and had to move all string literals to their own dedicated bank. 😅 #nesdev #indiegames #gamedev #jrpg

Do I understand correctly that you'd have a 16k code fixed bank, and then 7ish more 16k banks? (with supporting code/data?)

Yes, that would be a good fit for UxROM. If you're planning on a physical release, UNROM512 is a common board that would be more than sufficient.

Janus is still alive! Really looking forward to this one someday.

I listened to what it said about Witch n Wiz, and came to the conclusion that this is AI generated slop.

It also says "This game is simple, tense, and addictive" about Full Quiet. Simple!? 😂

If you compare what you're doing with the sum of everything out in the world, you'll just be discouraged.

Decide why you're making the games you're making. Tune out the world, create what you want to create. Don't compare or worry about what everyone else is doing. That's the only way to stay sane.

I made the switch a few years ago and never looked back.

Spent the week working on polishing up the water/swimming area of my work-in-progress NES adventure game Halcyon.

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That's 50% of the time I've spent on Halcyon....
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That's the best feeling to finally have it recorded!

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Bah, uploaded the video incorrectly. Here's video.

Working on the Frozen Caves area in my upcoming NES adventure game Halcyon.

My theory is that it wouldn't be proper to have a retro action-adventure without separate Ice and Lava areas.

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Table displaying video games

Enjoyed meeting folks at Illinois Game Con this past weekend. Thank you for stopping by!

I've never figured out how to do a NDS cartridge release.

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But sometimes you have to get out and explore on foot...

That first on in particular looks really great. Thanks for the suggestion!

By "balance" do you mean be able to see the rotation better? or something else?

(Just interested in understanding the feedback as we continue to improve things)

Me too, Jordan, Me too.

I first had the idea for it in 2005....