Micro Mages isn’t a typical side-scrolling platform game, it’s a vertical scroller à la Kid Icarus, but faster paced. As you charge up your attack and jump off walls, the screen automatically scrolls up. If you’re too slow -BAM! You’re dead.
Along with being a fun, fast-paced action platformer for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Nebs ‘n Debs is also one of the best homebrew games I’ve played. Debs is a space traveller who crashed on planet Vespasian 7MV. She awoke to find small orange…
The Game Boy is turning out to be a great system to learn from. I really like working with the limited 4-colour palette and the low resolution of 160×144 pixels. I used my jail-broken Analogue NT Mini to get the game running on my CRT TV as a reference to draw from. It displays Game…
Reference art is quickly becoming my most valuable asset when it comes to studying pixel art. This week, I used the Capcom game Bionic Commando as a reference to draw from. It’s an excellent action adventure game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
Bloc Drop is a sprite hack I did for the Pico-8 virtual console. It is a fun puzzle game that can be played in your web browser, or via the Pico-8 software. All of the programming credit goes to beepyeah who created the original game “Valdi: Shadows”. I just did a sprite hack. This was…
This is my first tech demo for an animated web series I would like to make. It isn’t anything special, just a test to find out if it’s possible. As an open-source software enthusiast, I want to create all my content in Linux. I think I have found all software I need to create a…