It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. Here's new patterns for my carbon fiber foldable walking sticks!! Each pattern needs to sell at least 50 each to make them a reality!! Or else I'll have to refund them. Please support! Store: Bibipins.com

It took a bit of refactoring, but now a player can change frame styles without restarting the NES game being emulated. Totally worth the effort! #gamedev #retrogame #nes #indieretro

Art is a Mirror

Someday, I will remember that I created a path called "D:\OBS_Recordings" on my computer and not have to look it up in OBS settings when I want to find some game footage I recorded. Today is not that day.

Fire And Rescue is an indie NES game where you put out fires and rescue people. Playable with 1 or 2 players. You can get the game digitally at skyboygames.itch.io/fire-and-res... or physically from www.etsy.com/shop/SkyboyG... or stoneagegamer.com/fire-and-res....

What happens when a Haniwa commits to a exercise routine and puts in the work? You get the Gigahan, one of the enemies you will encounter in Even Goblins Fall In Love. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #jrpg #screenshotsaturday

Shout-out to the person at last week's IGDA DC event who noticed that I had used "researches" instead of "researchers" in one of Even Goblins Fall In Love's NPC lines. That typo had escaped notice for quite a while. #indienes #gamedev #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #screenshotsaturday

I had a good time at IGDA DC's Play At The Library event last Saturday. Super tiny event made it easy to catch up with some #gamedev friends and have expose new folks to #indieRetro NES (i.e. NES Homebrew) development. Totally worth lugging a CRT through the DC Metro. www.meetup.com/igda-dc/even...

As an experiment, I tried to see if AI could help me find the source of a memory leak in my game. Spent 30 minutes with the bot running in circles, hallucinating counter-factual sources for the leak. Gave up on the bot and found the source myself in about 10 minutes. John Henry ain't dead yet.

When working on an emulator container, getting the game up and running ends up being one of the first tasks you tackle. After that, it's the surprisingly labor-intensive act of implementing all the bits we take for granted, like an Options menu. #gamedev #retrogame #nes #indieretro

And some joker will chime in with: "Don't game engines do all that stuff for you?" No, they don't. They really don't.

I have a feeling that the Etsy algorithm has some sort of traffic lottery going on. For my Etsy site selling indie NES games (www.etsy.com/shop/SkyboyG... ), I'll go for weeks without a sale and then suddenly get 3 orders on one listing in a week. All from Etsy traffic according to their analytics.

Crossing a bridge towards the final castle while carrying the requisite Macguffin sword will spark a boss battle that will open up a path to the end of the game. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #jrpg #screenshotsaturday

Showing a new build of Even Goblins Fall In Love at IGDA DC's Play At The Library event.

I've been pretty quiet about this, but I recently restarted my emulator container project that will allow me to release my NES games on Steam, consoles, etc. Decided to build on SDL3 since modern game engines have too much overhead for me. #gamedev #retrogame #nes #indieretro

One of the earlier creatures you will encounter in Even Goblins Fall In Love is the Haniwa, an animated clay statue. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #jrpg

For anyone who owns a physical NES copy of Fire And Rescue or Gunhawk (available on Etsy *wink, wink*: www.etsy.com/shop/SkyboyG... ), you can scan the game cartridge with an NFC reader to get a free copy of the corresponding ROM from itch.io.

Here's a first look at the Jabberwock, the final boss of Even Goblins Fall In Love. It took a lot of work and a bit of trickery to get this image into the game, but it was totally worth it. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #jrpg #screenshotsaturday

As the saying goes: "Subtext is for cowards"

Ghost of Yotei star: 'workers need more protections' in game development

My game production super power is having a compiler that literally stops working if I try to add too many features to my game. Build output for Even Goblins Fall In Love that tells me I have ~958 bytes of space left in PRG ROM. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

Hey I don't wanna go to work today Wanna stay home and play all my video games

March is here! This month on the NES Homebrew Calendar, (re)discover Banana Bash, the excellent puzzle game from @work3studio.bsky.social! 🍌😍 #NES #homebrew #nesdev #NESmaker #indiegames #gamedev #ファミコン #同人ゲーム @scrobins.bsky.social @deadeye.bsky.social

Our NES shooting action games Gunhawk, which you can play with either gamepad or Zapper, is available digitally on skyboygames.itch.io/gunhawk and physically at www.etsy.com/shop/SkyboyG... and stoneagegamer.com/gunhawk-nes.....

Welcome to Adalwood, a forest town in Even Goblins Fall In Love. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #jrpg #screenshotsaturday

I have an initial implementation of decoding an additional compression layer for my world map data in Even Goblins Fall In Love. It saves me ~600 bytes of code size, but it decodes way slower than the less compressed version. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #jrpg

Who would've thought that doing marketing for your games would involve going through so many CAPTCHAs? For the curious, my marketing task at thee time was updating my spreadsheet of YouTubers and their email addresses.

They scream “only two genders exist!!” But every soul shines in its own irreplaceable color 🌈✨ No matter how loud the hate gets, Chiitan will keep waving this flag until everyone can sparkle as themselves🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Dumpstar is an enemy based of a bugged-out enemy that showed up during testing at an expo. The kit-bashed graphics from the bug looked so cool it's now a real creature in the game. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #screenshotsaturday

Okay, I think I've got a way to shave about 950 bytes of data (minus the additional code needed for runtime decompression) from the world map for Even Goblins Fall In Love. More compression means more game on a 64kb ROM. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #jrpg

Just blocked in maps for the final dungeon of Even Goblins Fall In Love. I'm now down to less than 300 bytes of ROM space. Time to head back to the compression and optimization mines to free up more space. Nothing will stop me from fitting this game into 64kb! #nesdev #gamedev #jrpg

Back in the day, you needed a Nintendo Power subscription to have someone tell you that monsters get stronger across bridges. In Even Goblins Fall In Love, the NPCs tell you for free. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #jrpg #screenshotsaturday

Finally found some time to sit down and design some of the final dungeon in Even Goblins Fall In Love. I'm working on adding some gimmicks suitable for a place called The Throne of Lies. #gamedev #indienes #indieretro #nes #homebrew #jrpg

Physical NES copies of Fire And Rescue are back in stock on our Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/SkyboyG... And at Stone Age Gamer: stoneagegamer.com/fire-and-res... Complete-in-Box copies available now! #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

I just integrated the graphics for the final boss in Even Goblins Fall In Love, and they are *chef's kiss* I'm not showing them off quite yet because I want to keep teasing you with them.

A batch of new Fire And Rescue cartridges fresh off the grill. (Yes, I admit it's close to lunchtime, and I am hungry.) #indienes #indieretro #nes #gamedev

Hmm... that clearing in the forest looks suspicious. I wonder if it leads to a secret in the game... #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #screenshotsaturday

I just realized that I missed a deadline to submit a game for AwesomeCon. Well, shit.

Find a cool sword. Yay! Sword is too heavy to wield... Sometimes a goblin can't catch a break. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #screenshotsaturday

Forget the Snyder Cut; give me the Killer Instinct version of Panel de Pon!

Physical NES copies of Gunhawk are back in stock on our Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/SkyboyG... And at Stone Age Gamer: stoneagegamer.com/gunhawk-nes.... #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

Guess I know what I'm having for dinner tonight.

From April 1990's issue of Famitsu: Design documents from the very first Dragon Quest game. We can see on the right how the original slime design went from the kind of horror you'd see in an early Wizardry to the cute blob iconic to the game and then into pixel form!

In homage to Dragon Quest I, you can see the castle where the final boss is near the start of the game. This bridge will be a shortcut that will allow you to reach the final castle quickly during the endgame. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #screenshotsaturday

Bummed out by the prospect of unfettered AI investment driving up the cost of modern gaming tech? How about playing some #indieRetro / #homebrew NES games? Many of our games literally run on 40 year-old hardware: skyboygames.itch.io

Welcome to 2026, the Year of the Horse. Here's hoping everyone has an excellent year. From the cast of Skyboy Games to you! Art by @ursamajorgamma.bsky.social

I'll be at MAGfest on a panel?! I'll be discussing the creation of student-led game studios with alumni of GADIG, one such studio! If you're a student making games, this talk may be insightful for you! See us Saturday @ 6:30 pm <3 #magfest #mivs #magfest2026

Last couple times I demoed Even Goblins Fall In Love, my 8-bit JRPG love-letter to Dragon Quest, a bug resulted in some messed-up MISSINGNO-style enemies showing up. Lali-Ho is one of those. Now an official member of the roster. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

We have all our games on #SteamSale as part of the #SteamWinterSale! In this turn-based Dwarven #Roguelike, can you deal with the swarms the dwarves unleashed since They Dug Too Deep?

It will, for good reason, be years before we see a Dispatch Season 2. But, hear me out, what if: Dispatch Holiday Special