Gemintronic

More or less! The bat is tasked to put back all the items into their respective chests. The dragons - being *wonderful co-workers* - harass you and try to drag to off to a random screen. You can return the items to their chest in any order. But, each item has a specific chest. Thankfully, Knabber Rob has a sort of echo location ability that points him in the general direction of each goal.

That gets me a little angry and frustrated. Y'all played one of my 2600 games for a long time in one video (Cyber Willy maybe?). It's horrible that a corporate bot can kill channels. My own experience has been getting flagged for the first 4 seconds of silence as being owned by some leech of a company. This was a video of me playing my own PC game of which EVERY asset including music was created by me. Hopefully D.Tube takes off.

A very old middle ground I used to use was Mappy. I liked it as you could create your own extensions in lua. https://tilemap.co.uk/mappy.php

For 2600 and Genesis I use Tiled. I just export the map I designed to .csv and (if using BASIC) add the line: " DATA " to the start of every line. Copy and paste the results into my source. https://www.mapeditor.org/

I've seen my share of forum drama so.. Topical Trouble

I'm pretty sure the things are like Scrotumgers Cat: alive until you actually intend to observe it working. Update: Just posting for fun. Haven't had a problem with mine. Although, the person who gave it to me had to return a unit once before getting the one I have now.

I've bought many Atom based systems including 1st gen compute sticks, a 4gb newer compute stick, WinBooks and a GPD Win. If you're using Windoze it's *barely* acceptable for normal tasks at 4gb RAM. You quickly run out of onboard storage at 32gb with Windows itself (and forced updates). It's tough to boot to even EFI based media like Windows discs. Booting off of the TF card is impossible. The internal graphics are not great either. Atom based systems even today are like a Cyrix and off-brand x86 CPUs of old: they get real slow at weird times. The onboard storage is so underwhelming booting Windows off of an external USB stick was seemingly faster! So, long story short-er: get at least 4gb model with 64gb storage.

I agree. I just think this lessens the chance of corporate / fan cooperation. Sending a cease and desist is easier than figuring out a way to promote and encourage fan games. Basically, I think both parties could have adjusted their strategies.

So, we might have a collector muddying his chances of getting legal and monetary recompense coupled with an arcade technician ruining his own reputation (and thus business). Or, ya know, the original statement of an anonymous donor is what it is. One is more fun and dramatic certainly.

Part of it may be you have to prove brand confusion and losses. Once someone buys a copy or downloads version 1.0 there could be those losses and brand confusion. I just saw a video where a big portion of cheats and glitches work. Maybe these guys copy-pastad the source and jury rigged the system calls. Re-using actual SMB code would be a bad look. Note that I think this is sweet as heck and a great technical achievement. But, the way it was released with big N branding, very convincing assets and (possibly) code makes corporate bad behavior justified. This doesn't help the next fan game get cooperation from AAA game companies.

The interesting thing here is how the accusation of theft is being discussed as if it's fact.

I thought the port was deemed too 8 bit. Even padding the ROM to 24 bit didn't do the trick and it was dropped.

These companies seem to wait until the project is tangible. But, just the threat of legal action is enough to censor and squash a project. No one has lawyer money. The smart money is to use your own assets and branding. Let the gameplay and tech speak for itself.

My impression is that it's probably a core update plus adapter? Hopefully when I can get a developer unit I'll test the heck out of it.

Waiting until its complete to let the general public know was a smart move. The big N loves its trademarks. I wonder if a smarter move would be to use all original assets and branding.. THEN somehow the Internet masses post about a "skin" for the game that makes it Super Maryo. Nothing disappears from the Internet but these proud developers have nothing they can monetize. Nothing to make free. Nothing to discuss on some forums as sites will be afraid of attracting corporate/lawyer attention.

Some tiles and sprites look to be Nintendo sized and others look C64 wide pixel-ish. I guess what I'm trying to say is some elements look like they're in a different resolution. Why is that? Not saying fake as I already ate my shoe with Super Mario World 64 (Sega Genesis).

I appreciate the advice! I've installed Git to compile Stella before.. but, now I've actually set up an account. Definitely going to keep up with doing a task list. Hold off on the fancy proceseseses except for a Kanban board. Also, not stress over diet per MrSQLs recommendation

I've tasked myself to make a complete game in a finite timeframe. This is something new to me with homebrew development. Or, at least new in that I have not given myself as much time for winging it this time around. How do you handle project management for solo homebrew games? Does Agile, Scrum and whatnot scale for such projects? Should I use something like Hack n Plan? I'd appreciate any experiences or ideas from my fellow AtariAge members. I chose this section is it's an Atari 2600 title. Happy Friday!

Meh, just waking up. I thought I'd post something mildly funny. But, I realized: What is bit-itis anyway? Does it really make sense to want PlayStation graphics on an NES? MSX graphics on an Atari 2600? I understand the homebrewer side wanting to push the limits - not really the consumer. I also don't get why you would want yet another version of the same game just on system X instead of Y. Especially when when enhanced versions are already on other readily available platforms.

@marcio_napoli: As an indie filmmaker it's probably not exciting to make someone elses movie. That directly transfers to homebrew developers. We've played most Jag games. We've played most games for other retro systems. When I sit down to play I want something new to me. When I create I want to develop something new and fresh - even if it is just a remix of themes. Ports are not as exciting on your own development time. So, very little AAA ports due to reasons already explained in earlier posts. Absolutely: over time many game design risk taking, completely new games. UPDATE: I probably made it sound like I've made games for the Jag. Not yet! Still stuck in 2600 and Genesis land.

May be a good time to switch it up to DPC+ to get enhanced graphics and stuff. A clean start! Also, WizardBone reminds me of Bone Thugs n Harmony. So, it's already cooler than you think

Developer here. Me and Neotokeo2001 collaborated on this one. There are several videos on YouTube. It's basically a boss rush shooter. Top down like Astrosmash. Various sharks swim downward and keep you from sitting in one place. Shoot the chickens for bonus. The gimmick here is the big baddie towards the top of the screen varies between play sessions. You never quite get the same bosses each playthrough. As with many VCS games there is no finite end: bosses get more attributes and things get faster. The real enemy is losing grit and panic moving into the huge laser beams.

Mostly due to being particularly suited to pre Nintendo game designs. Also, a love for risk taking one man band game development

Just that there are people with near pathological aversions to compilers without visual IDEs already in place. I am very, very grateful this type of thing is in your wheelhouse and gives you joy That kind of thing snowballs into happy and creative bB and 7800bas developers =)

I've got my money on 256k ROM games the Encore cart supports working on the Uno in the future. So, you can't go wrong with one or the other. Or, both