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Sneak peak of the new (hopefully "honest") box art for the game! Can't wait to share the final piece!

@DRW: I hope I can win back you trust!

I see a lot of homebrew games put on the "official NES seal of Quality" or create a little spin on it with their own company logo. Has the idea of creating an "public domain" homebrew seal of quality every come up? Something generic that any one of us can grab an put on our games...

I am starting to profile my game a bit, as I am hitting cases where my update is not finishing within the frame. During this process I have found that my sprite drawing routine is nearly half my frame. Considering that this isn't actually doing anything but updating oam sprites (logic to calculate f...

Thanks! I got it working and can see different sections of code now represented as colors! This will help a lot, thanks!

The NES has a mechanism where you can put a color layer over the complete screen: https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/PPU_registers#PPUMASK --> Emphasize red, green, blue. You can set those values mid-frame. This way, only a certain portion of the screen will have this layer. Since you mentioned St...

Hi, I know it's SNES, but I feel like people here probably have some ideas. I picked up a game that appears to be damaged: when I boot up the system it just goes to a black screen and nothing loads. Other games on the same system have no problem. Normally I'd just consider it a loss and move on, but...

Screw box art, watch the intro to this game and try to guess what genre it will be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCwvVpfhi7k&t=30s HAHA 5 minute melodramatic adventure story intro... oh and in the last 5 seconds... I can turn into a bee... The post game credits alone are worth a detailed ana...

For me the box art serves only 2 purposes: Catch a consumers attention, and invite them to learn more (traditionally flip over the box and see screenshots, or today watch a trailer). Fill in abstract technical/artistic gaps (especially important pre-NES where it was really hard to tell what stuff in...

I started NES Dev 4 weeks ago... What the WHAT?! You went from zero NES development experience to a fully complete game in FOUR WEEKS?! Actually I guess I've been looking into this for over a year really :wink: . I just started actually coding 4 weeks ago. I've been going through the nesdoug NES in...

Thanks for all the thoughtful feedback! Just a little side-topic comment: This cover artwork is so misleading. It literally has nothing to do with the gameplay, even if you include garbage blocks to represent the kraken's tentacles. It looks like an action game. And even if I knew it's a puzzle game...

Update Week 4! From Below is really close to being finished now! Hopefully just another week or so. Here's a short video walking through the whole game. The Kraken is now in the game, and his tentacles slowly climb up the play area, pushing up blocks as he goes! I want to iterate on this further, b...

calima wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 12:40 am That blinking and moving thing at the bottom is a bit too distracting. May want to tone it down (in both graphical and blinking terms).

Thanks for the feedback. That flashing block was just placeholder, and has been replaced in the next version.

Any benefits to using this over cc65? I'm currently using cc65, which is why I ask.

Update Week 3! Things are progressing well! And the game has a new name!! Renamed the game to "From Below"! Finalized Music and Sounds. ( listen here - gameplay out of date) Added pause state (with music). First pass at real title screen and level art. First pass of "Kraken gameplay&...

Looking cool! I think you should hold off on showing the "lines" and "level" labels until the screen locks on the playfield. Having it there all the time kinda kills the illusion. Similarly, the "push start" text could maybe disappear after you do what it tells you to,...