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.
Author: Johnny Pumpernickel
Johnny Pumpernickel is an amateur pixel artist who loves RPGs and CRTs. When Johnny isn't grinding for EXP, he can be found riding his bike and avoiding social media.
Nebs ‘n Debs Review
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…
Reference Art: Kirby
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: Bionic Commando
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).
My Pico-8 Video Game Hack
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…
Animation Test 1
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…