Progress for Tanglewood by Big Evil Corporation doesn’t stop! Quote: TANGLEWOOD has now been passed to two external QA services – a small outfit in the UK, and a larger team in South Africa. Both have already performed their first playthroughs and have sent back preliminary reports.
Jayenkai of A Game A Week fame shows more progress tweaking his AGameAWeek C++ Framework for the Nintendo 3DS. Read more at GBAtemp.
The Mojon Twins currently beta test their new game Cheril the Writer for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom. Tested via a NES emu running on a Caanoo 🙂
sdm released another demo game called Cybroitek. It’s a Berzerk style game for NES / Famicom.
GodMode9 Explorer by d0k3 is a full access file browser for the Nintendo 3DS console. It gives you access to your SD card, to the FAT partitions inside your SysNAND and EmuNAND and to basically anything else. Among other functionality you can copy, delete, rename files and create folders. You can find the source here. Changes: [new] Support for PNG … Read more
Michael Chiaramonte shows us once again how to do some NES Programming. Quote: After being off for a week we did some small optimizations, messed with how levels are loaded, and then played around with sprite 0 hit detection. It was a pretty fun stream because I was mostly messing around with the NES code and not the asset tool. … Read more
The author of Alfonzo’s Arctic Adventure brought another update to our attention. Release notes: New level clear animation! I’m pretty proud of how nicely that spiral effect turned out. Had to use some creative math to get it to work with the scrolling, but definitely worth it. #nesdev #nes #indiedev #gamedev
Star Ark is a science fiction game being developed for the Sega Genesis. The game is set on an interstellar colony ship. The player is a member of the crew who must put down a mutiny and set the ship back on course. The 8 Bit Daddy Daughter Team asks for design feedback, so give them a hand! Quote: Twitter … Read more
1985 Alternativo are taking pre-orders for Griel’s Quest for Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis. E-Mail to hola@1985alternativo.com for more information. The official page doesn’t seem to be reachable for now. You could also check out their Twitter.
The Retro League Podcast features discussion about the latest retro gaming news, re-releases, community developments and reviews of our favorite games. This week: A lot of fun was had at the Midwest Gaming Classic convention this week, but Billy Mitchell is facing some serious heat. The Rampage movie is out and we’ve got reviews of the film and of a … Read more