Fancy some 8-bit gardening? I know I do! 👨‍🌾🥕 #nes #retrogames #indiegames #nesdev #gamedev

I'm still here! I'm clearing out bill paying work so it's out of the way and I get the rest of the summer to work on Rynn with very little distraction. 😎

Finally got a glimpse of #dragonquest 12 for #dragonquestday However, I was really hoping for a Zenithian trilogy HD2D so I'm leaving a bit sad! Oh well, maybe next time 😎

Some weeks ago I needed a break and spent a weekend making a black box-style cooking game for the NES. Here is ChopChop, enjoy all 5-10 minutes of entertainment: sebotron.itch.io/chopchop #nes #retrogames #nesdev #indiegames #gamedev

Apologies for the radio silence: I've been catching up with bill-paying work for the past two weeks! I'll be back in the saddle shortly. Here's another 15 secs of random bits of our first story in the meantime! #jrpg #nes #indiegames #gamedev #retrogames #thebookofrynn

Do you love cave dungeons? I love cave dungeons! #jrpg #nes #indiegames #gamedev #retrogames #thebookofrynn

Past me: balancing a retro rpg is easy! Current me: 🤦‍♂️

Filling up data files by hand is fun but I have to say, having editors is fun too! Just hammered this quick monster editor for Rynn. #jrpg #nes #8bit #nesdev #gamedev #indiegames #retrogrames #thebookofrynn

It is said that an old man lives in an ancient library at the top of the Tower of Damaris. The tower is surrounded by poisonous swamps and its lower floors are guarded by monsters. What wisdom will Torin find at the top? 🤔 #jrpg #nes #retrogames #indiegames #gamedev #8bit #thebookofrynn

Sometimes I take breaks from gamedev and when I do, I often do more gamedev. Here's a quick and dirty experiment running on the SNES. A future Rynn game maybe? Ok back to real work. 🤭 #snes #nes #16bit #jrpg #gamedev #indiegames #retrogames

Map layering was a bit more of a headache than I expected and that's as fast as I can get it to work for now. Had to reduce my tileset to 32 tiles so I could use the top 3 bits of each tile to assign a "region" from 0 to 7 but hey it works! 🤓 #gamedev #retrogames #nes #jrpg #thebookofrynn

Our little map editor started as a fairly simple tile placement tool but can now support "regions" that can hide and reveal when crossing certain triggers. Pretty neat! #jrpg #nes #indiegames #retrogames #gamedev #thebookofrynn

If you're new here, The Book of Rynn is a new RPG in development for the NES console, inspired by classic 8-bit JRPGs like Dragon Warrior/Quest 1 to 4! Join our growing community and keep an eye out for a playable demo soon! #jrpg #nes #retrogames #indiegames #8bit #pixelart #nesdev #homebrew

OUR KICKSTARTER IS NOW LIVE!! - After 6ish years of Lukasz and I (mostly me) muddling through making this game, we finally have our end in sight! If you like arcade platformers please consider backing and giving this a repost! LINK IN BIO AND COMMENT #biocreeps #nes #nesdev

I've been replaying #dragonwarrior over the past couple days, taking little breaks from working on The Book of Rynn. I must have played through this over 25 times and yet I don't get bored. I'm also graced with poor memory so it still doesn't feel stale! 😆 #jrpg #nes #dragonquest #retrogames

Here are the first 7 minutes of gameplay from our first story: The Royal Seal. You'll see the intro, discover the castle of Dorlan and watch our hero, Torin, grind a couple of levels around the castle before setting off to the west. #nes #jrpg #retrogames #gamedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLKD...

The NES homebrew scene needs more RPGs, let's goooo

I'm on Twitch for a little bit, testing out the early game grind. Come slay Sillygoos and Burnabees around Dorlan Castle with me! #jrpg #nes #thebookofrynn #indiegames #gamedev www.twitch.tv/sebotron80

Happy Saturday! Here is the main area of Dorlan Castle in The Book of Rynn's first story: The Royal Seal. #screenshotsaturday #nes #jrpg #thebookofrynn #indiegames #retrogames

We now have a trailer! I've had a pit in my stomach this past week just thinking of everything that needs to happen, but I'm also so excited to finally have this out to everyone. BioCreeps is an action arcade game for the NES coming very soon. #nes #nesdev #indiedev #biocreeps

The struggle to keep from sharing spoilers from our first story is real but I can share bits of our amazing soundtrack. Picture your 10 yo self having just opened that new epic RPG, sliding the cart in your NES and listening to that title music for the first time. #jrpg #nes #indiegames #chiptune

Started looking into finding an artist that can do 80s old school fantasy, ideally painting. We need kickass cover art! Suggestions?

Here is the intro to the first story of The Book of Rynn: The Royal Seal. Hyped? Join us on Discord! #thebookofrynn #nesdev #jrpg #nes #retrogames #8bit

Workflow from title screen to starting a new story is in place! Next: insert a prologue and start implementing our first story: The Royal Seal! #jrpg #nes #nesdev #retrogames #gamedev

Hi! Still working on stories, maps, monsters and music with the help of some friends! Meanwhile, somebody smarter than me has shared a linker script that cranks up PRG space on MMC3 to 1 full megabyte. That's twice as much as Dragon Warrior 4 used! Buckle up... 😅 #nesdev #jrpg #retrogames

Started work on the title and game start menus. Mundane stuff but necessary! The first story is also slowly taking shape w/ new maps and new characters. Can't wait to share more! #nes #jrpg #thebookofrynn #indiegames #gamedev #retrogames

Bar a few bug fixes, the Book of Rynn is now feature complete. The road to the demo: story writing, maps, sprites, scripting, music, sfx and none of it will be revealed until it's ready so I may post less until then. Join us on Discord to try it first! #gamedev #jrpg #nes #retrogames #indiegames

Our battle system is very close to complete. We *need* testers able to try any and all commands, spells, items and break the game so we can find and fix every single issue. If you love RPGs from the 8-bit era, we need your help! #jrpg #nes #gamedev #indiegames #retrogames #the-book-of-rynn

Battle spells are finished and battle items are on the way. I started working on this game about a year ago and we are finally almost feature complete, ready to enter the content phase and start working on the public demo, which will feature the entire first story. The excitement is unreal!

Battle spells are coming along! Also implemented critical hits, pre-emptive strikes, parry, evade and many other battle mechanics. Do you wanna try the game while we're building it? Join us on Discord! #jrpg #nes #retrogames #gamedev #indiegames

I recently lost my map editor after wiping my main drive in a hurry. The previous editor was heavy and Python+QT based so not very portable. I redid it in Typescript+Vite and now it runs in the browser! It's much less clunky and loads the same .chr and .pal files as the game uses, which is neat!

Enjoying the grind! #jrpg #nes #retrogames #nesdev

Our first battle dev build is out! If you want to help test The Book of Rynn and fight Sillygoos and grind your way to fighting the stronger Goofygoos, join us on our Discord! Link in bio :) #jrpg #thebookofrynn #nesdev #nes #indiegames #retrogames #gamedev

I've been wanting to setup this Nintendo nostalgia tower for a while and it's now complete! Wii is in the living room 😎 #radical #nes #nintendo #retrogames

Preliminary XP curves for all archetypes. The game will have a hard level cap of 30 but each story will be completable around a lvl 20 soft cap. Looking forward to the balancing headaches! Join us on Discord, we'll need people to test the grind soon! #nesdev #indiegames #gamedev #retrogames #jrpg

The work on our battle loop continues! Added a turn order calculation based on actors dexterity and a random % variation as well as a simple attack evade calculation based on the dexterity gap between the attacker and defender. Devil's in the details, as they say! #jrpg #nesdev #indiegames #gamedev

Hope y'all are having a nice New Years Eve! We're ending 2025 closer than ever to The Book of Rynn finally becoming a reality and I couldn't be happier to share this with you all. Happy New Year everyone, stay warm and safe, and here's to releasing The Book of Rynn in 2026! 🥳

That GBC game I developed in about a week and released exactly a year ago, Santa Rush, is gonna be played on a live stream by @johndogb.bsky.social today (French stream) - can't wait to see him rage at the horrible jump physics! 😅

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎅Our battle loop is functional although only the FIGHT command works for now. Next up: spells, items, parry and run! I'm getting very close to entering the content phase and working on the demo story. I'm *really* excited! #nes #jrpg #indiegames #retrogrames #gamedev

Hi! I was really hoping for a demo by the end of this year but I hit a few too many snags! A demo is absolutely coming early 2026, however. Until then, Happy Holidays, enjoy your friends and families and this NES-style Santa! See you all very soon!🎅🎄

After a whole month of fixing nasty issues and redoing systems, I'm glad to share that I am finally back to working on BATTLES! Say hi to the SILLYGOO! Name one JRPG that doesn't have a slime monster, I dare you! #nesdev #jrpg #indiegames #gamedev #retrogames

1/2 Nerd speak alert! Working with such limited resources as with the NES forces you to be creative. Collisions used to loop through: collidable tiles, trigger tiles and NPCs: 3 whole loops before we even started moving, and if an NPC had decided to start moving that same frame, that was doubled!

Hi! Been a hot minute! Rewrote the entire npc and sprite update routines and finally got rid of that nasty 1 frame stutter bug. I'm also back to working on the game full time at least until January! Let's go!! #jrpg #nes #gamedev #indiegames #retrogames

My little brother got me this out of the blue! Had a lot of fun building it! Also reminded me I need a shelf for my gameboys 🤦‍♂️

Happy Sunday! I started with refactoring NPCs and ended up refactoring the whole sprite update system as well and it somehow broke the day-night cycle. I think I have some housekeeping to do! Thanks for bearing with me! 😅 #nesdev #jrpg #retrogames #indiegames #gamedev

Hello! I've been busy rewriting the entire npc management system. Will be back with regular updates shortly 😎

Ok I need to come clean, I haven't been posting updates on #the-book-of-rynn as much in the past week because I've been taking a little break and toying with #nintendo64 programming and I've been having so much fun! I'm putting this down and going back to #nesdev right away but I'll be back!😅

Woke up to one of our playtesters reporting a 1-frame hitch on vertical scrolling. Started digging and ended up scrapping the code for NPC movement and sprite updates completely and starting from scratch. For one annoying frame. #gamedev is hard 😅

Haha ok this is fun. I'm going to dive more into the N64 when The Book of Rynn is done! #n64brew #homebrew #nintendo64

Just taking a little break tonight to try something a bit different 😎