The ships navigator in my upcoming sci-fi epic is a plucky 20 something mars girl named Mirabelle Lucifer, shortened to Lucy by her friends. She has little bearing on the plot.

Quick megadrive graphics test, drawing weird shapes using a distorted tilemap. (Yes, like Yoshi's island). details in followup post.

wen were you when bluesky was kill

Made a scroller demo for the Sega MasterSystem / MK3, using devkitsms. Has a fixed HUD bar using an interrupt. Supports maps of any width, with a maximum of 192px/24 tiles high, so you've got a bit of wiggle. I'll opensource it ... soon.

doodled the moon dweller (tsukimomo)

Time for some more deep dives into The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic #BBCMicro game! Batch #6 is now ready: 3 new articles about screen buffers, panning, scrolling and dithering thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives Batch #7 (drawing the landscape) coming soon Enjoy! #retrocomputing #c64 #8bit

Some of my #Retrogaming artwork 😎 -Alisia Dragoon -Valis III -El Viento -Battletoads

Razing Core is a shoot 'em up in development for SEGA Master System/Mark III. I plan to release it this year on itch digitally with a physical version to follow. #homebrew

accidentally made something really pretty because of a screwup :D

DF and Nvidia are enemies of humanity.

Sprite order is what determines who's in front of what, regardless of priority. All one needs to do is ensure the high priority sprite is bellow the low priority sprite while in front of a high priority tile layer. Footage from "I made you a Salad" (SHC 2019)

Haven't quite nailed the raster timing so it's a bit jumpy and the border is a mess, but this is getting there. I've got a proper 3D track renderer in the planning stages, I'll work on that next.

This is a cute illustration bidding farewell to the Mega Drive, featuring many of Sega's most iconic characters on the console and its many add-ons. Taken from the September 1995 issue of Sega Saturn Magazine.

this rules, been waiting for this. I'm going to attempt to port my game engine to megadev, I'd like to make CD/Cartridge builds with slightly different features, offload effects processing to the CD Unit... awesome. that's not scope creep.

It's a been a long time coming... MEGADEV, a development kit for the Sega Mega CD, version 1.0 is released! ──────────────────── 🔗https://github.com/drojaazu/megadev ────────────────────

Part two of my "making of" series shows the animations in Blender with sprite prep. You also get to see the Manticore in the game as a rough prototype. Watch on YouTube - like and subscribe LOL! youtu.be/TRpQeQzwSFI Or the full post on Patreon www.patreon.com/c/mechazone/... @GameDev @IndieGame

morning roughpaint Last night, I got excited about the topic of Ridge Racer 4 (R4) with my friends, and for the first time in about 25 years, I drew to clear the haze that I couldn't draw as I wanted. #namco #R4

doing something, getting some M68K assembly practice in.

Since this got reasonably popular, I'll post a ROM file later.

街歩き #pixelart #ドット絵 #oyuzaki_art

I ported the entire Hoenn region into a Megadrive rom to test out my new map streamer. Couple rendering bugs and the palette isn't great, but it's all in here.

Making retro games can be a real challenge because of all the technical limitations. Check out my newest (free) Patreon post to see how I deal with the color limitations of the #SegaGenesis aka #MegaDrive www.patreon.com/posts/sega-g... #Retrogames #indiedev #solodev #SGDK

Announcing the Galaxy Project release 2026/02/06 (46 new pages added) This is my project to reverse engineer the TNG studio sets to help those who wish to make fan art or fan films PDF and individual page files: frogland.co.uk/set-archive/...

Got my textbox engine and cutscene handler all singing along together

The burger thing is a placeholder... probably

I need to make a train level... I need to make a train level...

But where do the burgers go? Right here. Inventory data not properly plumbed in yet, but this is kinda close to what I had in mind for functionality. Top row will be consumables, second will be plot/key items

dumb self serving request, but I'm obviously an amateur and learning as I go, if I draw anything that could do with a simple tweak or two to look much better, or has some structural problem that brings it all down, I'd really appreciate the input.

yap yap yap

I keep forgetting, bsky, use high resolution png's for pixel art, everywhere else, native res (except x dot com under ~64px or so, then upscale), only post from chromium because firefox sends black images (nvidia problem), do not pass go, it's enough magic to make the sane go MAD.

Have a good weekend, gang!

background testing

I was gonna try and post daily, but a lot of the stuff I've been working on is technical/featureset and having just the same bunch of sprites in the same dang field every day gets boring, I'll try and work on some more zones n stuff.

if I had all the money in the world i'd get megumi hayashibara doing the voices & an intro song for the inevitable sega mega-cd version of my game

How to snow-ify a level in SGDK very quickly - Swap the empty/0 areas of the tilemap to point at a 32x32 repeatable pattern, animate a little snowfall loop and load it into the same slot in vram and update every few frames. Code sample shows how to apply it to a completely regular map.

happy friday friends, have a mysterious wasteland burger - on me

Mega Parodius (Megadrive) Scaling !! Went crazy, decided to do the hardest bit (possibly) in the port next , Stage 8 Boss !! Horizontal scaling only at present , vertical is next . Horizontal is much harder to achieve at speed. 1,2,3,4x scale over 74 updates. He's 21kb of tiles ie massive !!

$BUTT

I made these tortle guys more fun to play around with/bully, they're designed to be docile and only lunge if you annoy them. (Spindash sprite stolen from Sonic Advance - placeholder) #gamedev #sgdk

The whole world (IRL) is actually held together by a complex web of ->interact functions that call each other like this

#SonicMania Plus for the #Sega #Dreamcast finally has audio! Here's a 2 minute direct hardware capture of me playing the latest build of @sonicfreak94.bsky.social's port on my actual DC to hype up the Blue Blur's epic comeback to a Sega console... where he has always belonged! #retrogaming #gamedev

learning to draw squares

Here's a fun memory saving I found. The player sprite shares the block of VRAM used for the WINDOW table, but since she doesn't coexist with the pause menu, and the textbox only covers 1/3rd of the screen, there's a few hundred bytes free to use.

Giving NPC's the ability to talk seems to have unleashed all manor of havok on the rest of the game, previously event scripts ran at level-scope, but now everything can trigger one. (first attempt at running the new code (gone wrong (why is the scrolling and sprite control broken?)))

I spent my holiday break implementing the first real mission structure for #Gilgamech and here is a preview of Mission 1-1 with a peak of 1-2 at the end. Still need to add enemies... this is a lot of work! www.patreon.com/posts/new-le... #IndieGame #SoloDev #SGDK #SegaGenesis #MegaDrive

If you're doing a temporal dither effect (1 frame off, 1 frame on, relying on screen/eye to blend), consider using 1px vertical lines and adding the camera x pos, so instead of (frame % 2) it's ((frame + camera.X) % 2), really helps with scrolling. impossible to video demo, take my word for it.

Rewrote my palette handler, so now the game has 1 or 2 free lines going, it doles them out to active entities that request it. See green monster in pic 1; neutral position far from any props in 2; playing with a see-saw in 3; #gamedev #sgdk

still getting a bug where 50% of the time posting an image to this site results in a black rectangle, _very_ annoying, it's something webgl related.

10cm vs 110cm vs 155cm

Can you spot Gilgamech in this video? Hint: yes you can! A lot of inspiring stuff in there