Tilemap Town takes a short, but noticeable amount of time to load on the 3DS, which is a combination of me not implementing websocket compression yet (because wslay doesn't do it for you and it's not trivial to add, and I couldn't find examples of people doing it), and the 3DS's download speeds jus...
I had a realization awhile ago that I might actually be driven to do homebrew stuff for very different reasons and with very different motivation behind it than most, which could explain part of why I seem to approach things very differently from other people (mostly in the form of emphasizing acces...
I got a TV antenna while back, and Cyberchase (on the PBS Kids channel) is probably the most interesting thing that comes on, and I've been trying to catch it whenever it does. I like the idea of people going "into the Internet" to solve problems, and the premise is still cool to me even though th...
I've been wanting to have my SNES game deliberately do uncommon graphical stuff during levels (or at least uncommon for platformers), though for some features I have ended up realizing that they're probably uncommon because in practice it's tricky to do something worthwhile with them in this context...
It'd probably be interesting to take a look at how my game's engine works compared to SNES games that probably had a lot more planning put in before development started. Since I just figure things out as I go, I try to keep everything especially flexible while trying to keep it efficient too.
Ther...
Tried to figure out a list of some of my favorite licensed NES games earlier for no particular reason, and came up with:
Super Mario Bros. 3
Kirby's Adventure
Wario's Woods (though I prefer it on SNES)
M.C. Kids
Little Nemo
Cocoron
Hatris
Tetris 2 + Bo...
I've been feeling nostalgic about TV lately for some reason (probably related to thinking about Defunctland's Disney Channel episode? I like seeing bumpers and stuff!) so I got an antenna which was just some cheap weird flat thing which seems to work much better hidden under a drawer than taped up...
I still think it'd be really fun to putting my virtual pet project on a dedicated device, and that would make it feel more "real". So I figured I'd try getting a 128x64 LCD screen and plugging it into a Raspberry Pi Pico, and have at the very least some sort of cool desk toy that way (like how I u...
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.