This starts Friday at noon CST! Come join us for the last ever NES Spectrum Marathon, where we will play NES games for 50+ hours on Twitch to raise money for the Organization for Autism Research! See you there! Let's go out with a bang! Bring the hype!! twitch.tv/nesspectrummarathon

From one of my favourite authors, @davidlcraddock.bsky.social, he’s just announced that Better Together: Stories of EverQuest, originally posted on ShackNews, it is now a full-fledged book! Very excited to check this one out! #EverQuest has been getting so much love lately ❤️

Check out the development update for The Halls of Talamh Domhain! This upcoming #NES #homebrew Dungeon Looter from Sleepy Bits Games will have a hands-on demo all weekend at Fire & Ice RGX. We hope to see you there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCG-... #nesdev #indiegames fireicergx.com

Have you ever noticed? (I sure didn't, until Peek-a-brews pointed it out). #ReusingAmazingAssets #nesdev

First time programming the same game in two different languages at the same time. Gonna have to do some sprite overlay on the dialog portraits on the NES version haha. #nesdev #godot #BttP2

Started planning out my dungeon crawler NES homebrew yesterday.

We already have exclusive games for NES/Famicom by @kevinhanley.khangames.com, @dalecoop.bsky.social and SJ Games! Courier 💾 www.homebrew-factory.com/nes/137-cour... Skatecat 🛹 www.homebrew-factory.com/nes/134-skat... Kubo 1+2 🐢 www.homebrew-factory.com/nes/131-kubo...

Anyone else a little too excited about their calculator? Any time I get a reason to pull out the ol' TI-85 or have a reason to program a new formula into it I get so excited.

Finding some of my old game design notes while visiting my mom’s, circa ‘94 if I had to guess. There’s a reason @kevinhanley.khangames.com’s Study Hall instantly appealed to me. Stat pages followed, so it was some sort of RPG.

Hey lovely #NESdev people. NESbag update 2.2.1 is available! Your configured game name and version number will now be displayed in the About > Help window. Thanks everyone! 😍 #NES #FAMICOM #indienes #homebrew #indiegames #gamedev #NESbag #NESbag2

Hey, fart-uitous. Never forget which days you work. #OnyxtheFortuitous #nesdev

Damn ghosts. #OnyxtheFortuitous #nesdev

I made the music for this game.

The Viking, the first boss from the upcoming game Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls for the NES. #nesdev

The only super bowl I care about is that super bowl of ramen I'll be having in a few minutes 🍜

Retro World Award • Courier // KHAN Games • Dragonyhm // Spacebot Interactive • Flea! 2 // Lowtek Games • Goodboy Galaxy // Goodboy Galaxy Ltd • Kudzu // Pie for Breakfast • Roguecraft // Badger Punch Games @alastairlow.bsky.social @goodboygalaxy.com @badgerpunch.com @spacebotdev.bsky.social

Been doing some pretty heavy #nesdev coding for the past two weeks. Feels really good to be back.

Courier: A Cyberpunk Adventure is out now on Steam for only $4.99! Explore, pickpocket, shoot, and hack your way through many areas in order to upgrade your skills, take down the evil Ankh Industries and fulfill your destiny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEyY...

Assuming I can figure out Steam's overly complicated backend, Courier will be launching on Friday, January 10th. On top of all the features you know of from the NES version, the modern version includes a new dialog engine, lighting effects, and a modern soundtrack that @sergioelisondo.bsky.social 1/

Happy Friday the 13th, everyone!

The worst part about running Kickstarters are the people who don't check into things until 7 months after you've shipped everything. Where does responsibility lie if someone chose to ignore shipping notifications and tracking data? If it shows as delivered but "wasn't". How do you handle this?

Was fun trying to get my @ a subdomain. Then even more fun trying to get the subdomain to redirect to my bluesky feed. But mission accomplished!

The author of Tenebra has ported their atmospheric puzzle game to the X16. Free to download but they accept donations: h4plo.itch.io/tenebra

I can share this GEM again. 😂

As someone who has developed NES games exclusively for over a decade and only recently started trying out modern game development, I can't get over how cool lighting effects look when accentuating a pixelated scene. Wishlist Courier on Steam today! Game'll be out just as soon as I stop being lazy.

Finalising my palettes for the boss sequences! 🎨 We have an amazing handful of boss music by @lena.fyi, Hiroki Kikuta, and Heosphoros 👏 #gamedev #nesdev

Nerd alert. #commanderX16

NOW LIVE! Check out our deep-dive episode on Kudzu, a new Game Boy adventure from @totter87.bsky.social and @megacatstudios.bsky.social. Find us wherever you get podcasts, or read more here: bit.ly/hbgc-kudzu For more episodes, swag, and other social media links: bit.ly/hbgameclub

My favorite game studio.

Bluesky is kicking Twitter's butt and I'm here for it. Hell yeah. Long live #nesdev social media.

Check out the trailer for the Steam release of Courier! Releasing very soon. Wishlist link in bio. youtu.be/cn5pS4CM1h4

I definitely feel like I'm seeing way more of everyone's posts here. And the fact that I don't see an ad or suggested post every other post feels really refreshing.

Hi Bluesky, meet my game. Courier is a cyberpunk adventure game originally designed for the NES. Upgrade your gear by taking on jobs from seedy employers and hack your way through the world to get all the info you need to take on the evil Ankh Industries and save the city. #nesdev #gamedev #Indie

I've been doing all kinds of Orange Island asset management and engine design for weeks. Here I'm showing my best effort to match the motion of the chimney smoke on the NES. The entity system is coming alive. Lots of glitches because major things are still in flux. #homebrew #retrodev

Just a reminder that I went and reprogrammed the NES version of Courier from scratch to run on modern platforms. In the process I got to add a lot of cool modern features like lighting effects, achievements, optional modern soundtrack, etc. Would mean a lot if you could wishlist it. Launching soon!