I've been feeling like the levels in Nova the Squirrel 2 could look better, even though people tell me they look just fine. So I've been looking at different SNES and Genesis platformer games to see some good examples of how other games decorated their levels. I thought it'd be interesting to share my notes and thoughts here.

During the Scott the Woz charity bonanza last year I got the boxes that had a random SNES or Genesis game in them with a new label and a lot of other goodies. Scott previously did these with NES games, and called it "The Mysterious Game of Crypticism" so these are "The Return of the Mysterious game of Crypticism." These were supposed to ship in January or February but they took until very recently to finally get here.

Because I do game dev as a hobby, that means it's fueled by me wanting something to exist so badly that I put in the time and effort to make it real. So with that in mind I mostly want to make stuff that either doesn't quite exist (either in the form I'd like, or at all) or I want there to be more of something I'm passionate about.