The GBA has fixed sprite sizes, essentially combinations of 8, 16, 32, and 64 for width and height. In order to have sprites free of these constraints, you can make "meta sprites" out of multiple sprites. This brings other challenges, like proper horizontal flipping 😅 #retrodev #gamedev #pixelart

This is the funniest technical foul I've ever seen 😂

The new Pokemon starters look excellent! Pombon is gonna be a huge hit, but my heart has always been drawn to the grass pokemon. Browt's angry eyes are so cute!

Lately I've been working on being able to properly support meta-sprites in my GBA games. The term meta-sprite is a colloquial way of saying you're combining multiple sprites to represent a single entity. In the video, the mega man zero is a meta-sprite the pink blob is a regular sprite. #gamedev

Lately I've been working on being able to properly support meta-sprites in my GBA games. The term meta-sprite is a colloquial way of saying you're combining multiple sprites to represent a single entity. In the video, the mega man zero is a meta-sprite the pink blob is a regular sprite. #gamedev

I'm really hoping "Relooted" by @nyamakop.co.za ends up on Playstation some day. The game looks incredible and I'm really bummed I don't have a device that can currently play it 😭

Thunder injury report vs. Lakers; Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (abdominal strain) OUT Ajay Mitchell (abdominal strain) OUT Nikola Topic (testicular surgery) OUT Thomas Sorber (torn ACL) OUT Jalen Williams isn’t listed signaling his return.

An element of the cartridge era of games I love is save files local to the cartridge. I love moments where you buy an old gameboy game and there's an existing save file on it. It's a little glimpse into another person's life, akin to words in the margins, underlined passages in a used book.

Welcome to Mothership. ✨ mothership.blog

Season's greetings from the only Christmas game you need to play, Forspoken.

An under-appreciated aspect of modern RPGs is how you can fold laundry during all the story parts.

It's been a while since I got to work on my game, but today I got to knock out a rough implementation of vertical scrolling! Here you can see platform snapping to an offset and different focus points for when you're in the air versus on the ground. #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev #gamedev

OH NO. HE. DIDN'T!!!

It's #ScreenShotSaturday, and I no longer use pngs for sprites! I now get all pixel information directly from aseprite files, saving me export time and less manual definitions all around :) #indiegamedev #gamedev #aseprite #pixelart #indiedev #retrodev #gbadev

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The Open AGB Display is live - A fully open source IPS screen mod for the Game Boy Advance, offering extra screen space for classic Game Boy games. Based on the RP2350, it is software defined and easy to adapt. Please repost! #openagbdisplay #oshw #gameboy www.embedded-ideas.de/posts/250825...

This #ScreenShotSaturday includes more than just my game running! This week, the moving platforms now move along a fixed path! I thought it'd be fun to see a bit more of the dev process, so here you can see the platform being placed via Tiled, my map editor of choice. #gamedev #indiedev #retrodev

Today's the first #ScreenshotSaturday that I'm on time for! This week I implemented moving platforms. Thanks to @maddymakesgames.com for her amazing "Celeste & TowerFall Physics" article! The logic in my GBA game is inspired by the Solids and Actors approach. maddymakesgames.com/articles/cel...

Being willing to talk on the phone effectively amounts to a super power in this day and age. I swear, for the vast majority of restaurants you can give them a call, check their availability, and book a reservation faster than whatever third party booking system can load their single-page web app.

With new Tony Hawk and Donkey Kong games, millennial gamers finally have an excuse to regale their spouses about the sickest sleepovers of their childhood. Prayers out for patient partners

Today I FINALLY got level switching on the GBA game implemented! Now I can conceivably make a series of levels that begin to feel like a game, rather than a sandbox. #ScreenshotSaturday #retrodev #gamedev #gba #gbadev #devlog

Just listened to the most recent episode of @plante.bsky.social’s Post Games, and listening to @writnelson.bsky.social talk about the state of the industry was such a treat. Post Games is shaping up to be one of my favorite podcasts. Check it out if you haven’t yet!

Once again I continue my tradition of being late to #ScreenshotSaturday. This weekend I got multiple backgrounds working in my GBA game. I got some extra inspiration by buying some of @nauris.bsky.social's pixel art assets in their summer sale! Much better than my dev art! #GameDev

Everything you need to know about the Thunder NBA Championship parade on Tuesday. Be sure to read this ... www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2...

I keep seeing ads for ChatGPT specifically aimed at students and we should treat this shit like it’s cigarettes.

A HISTORIC #KiaMVP FOR SGA 🏆 ▪️ 2nd MVP from Canada (Steve Nash - 2x) ▪️ 3rd MVP from OKC (Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant) ▪️ 2nd player to average 32.0+ PPG and 6.0+ APG on 50.0+ FG% in a season (Michael Jordan - 2x)

Playing around with the GBA's affine transformations on sprites #gamedev #retrodev #screenshotsaturday

PSA for Clair Obscur players: be careful on the world map! I was able to get stuck on the map. I went to camp and thought that leaving camp would spawn me in area I could walk again, but nope, still stuck. I had to go 3 saves back before I was unstuck again. #clairobscur #expedition33

I was picking away at "Lumiére" melody from Clair Obscur on the piano this morning, and realized that it's the classic Pokemon "Road to Viridian City - From Pallet Town" melody, but walking down instead of up. For a game that isn't ashamed of its influences, I have to wonder if it's on purpose.

2) dont know if ive been so moved by a prologue/intro section for a very, very long time

Clair Obscur Expedition 33: Very good. Me: Very bad at a parrying and dodging. #clairobscur #expedition33

Adopting the Blue Prince model of only being able to walk into a certain number of rooms per day and once I’ve hit my limit I get to go straight to bed.

I’m curious, for those who have found Room 46, what day did you first find it on? For me, it was Day 23. #BluePrince

Me: “I don’t really see the need for taking screenshots to have a dedicated button on controllers.” Also me, after starting Blue Prince: *aggressively screenshotting every single piece of paper* #BluePrince

Colors for GBA games are hard. All these photos are showing the same scene rendered. The colors that emulators and FPGA devices display by default are dramatically more luminance, even when filters are applied to make it look more like the original device. #gbadev #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

It's no longer #screenshotsaturday, but better late than never, right? I Spent the weekend learning Natu's new "Scenes" and "Systems" concepts. Here you can see a new version of one of Natu's examples leveraging the functionality. Two scenes instead of the original one! #gamedev #indiedev #gbadev

South of Midnight looks awesome. I wish I had something that could run it! Maybe one day it’ll come to PS5? One can dream, ha.

I love seeing new life breathed into long forgotten consoles. This is amazing, Alastair!

Props to Nintendo for being the only company these days that can announce a new product without mentioning AI.

I’ve been dorking around with my website again. The internet needs more absurd designs, now especially. mtthgn.com

I've been (very) slowly working on a GBA platformer. Today, I implemented animation states, starting with just an idle state and a walking state. A small change, but it's really cool how much more "alive" it makes it feel. Animation as "the illusion of life” indeed! #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

I was thinking about Guitar Hero the other day, and it’s pretty wild how an entire genre of video games has kinda disappeared. What happened? Am I missing something? Looks like there hasn’t been a new Rock Band since 2017 and Guitar Hero since *2015*. These games were so fun. #videogames #gamedev

This looks incredible, and Eli’s post is a great deep dive on how it all came together. I love the tonc shoutout!

my general thought after seeing a bunch of playstation reveals is that i sure love weirdo indie games that dare to not look like the same five games

I still think about this UI on a regular basis. #gamedev #retrogaming #ui

Red Lobster hero or we riot! #fabtcg #highseas

I went 5-0 at my local #FaBHunted prerelease! Here was my list. I played against a bit of everything, 1 Cendra, 1 Arakni, and then 3 Fangs to close out the event. Hunted limited was great! I can't wait to play more.

Today, I have revived the links page on SNES Central. If you will humour me, I will give you some reasons why I am doing this in this thread. This is because Internet of 2025 is very different from the Internet of 2001 when I first started this website. 🧵1/7 snescentral.com/links.php

"athletic" by @rrthiel.bsky.social #gameboy #lsdj #chiptune #mario #world

Riptide has now received his 7th expansion slot card. We’re now at 17 cards if you run playsets, meaning we’ll have LSS’ comeplete vision for the hero in only 21 set releases. I don’t know about you, but I’m real excited for the 2031 Riptide meta! #FabTCG