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 gave us a brief tour of the star ship via YouTube yesterday.
Ninja and Ninja II are fast-paced QTE (Quick Time Events) based games for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). These two games come in a “2-in-1” fashion and are already complete, reflecting a magical “Black Box” art style. You have two more hours to get your copy via Kickstarter, then funding is closed.
Owen heavily works on Newo Fox for Nintendo’s Wii.
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Not gonna get much work done today on my on rails shooter game but here is last week’s progress. #screenshotsaturday #wii #homebrew #starfox
The screenshots might start to look familiar because I have stabilized the #procedural #generation of the 100 stages in the game. Removing the randomness that you usually get from #procgen
Fracture, Inc. is a PICO-8 game by ultrabrite.
Did you know you’re literally sitting on a vast supply of natural gas? Thanks to Fracture, Inc. this cornucopia is now within your reach! Install a rig from Fracture, Inc. in your garden, your field, your backyard! Buy the finest fracking chemicals from Fracture, Inc. (only $1 per barrel! and start fracking!
Jayenkai of A Game A Week fame is tweaking his AGameAWeek C++ Framework in a way, that it can compile these games for Nintendo 3DS as well. One of the smaller challenges which are still present are fights with the memory limitation. Read more at GBAtemp.
The author of Alfonzo’s Arctic Adventure unveils boss number two. If you were not aware of this new upcoming commercial NES game, you should be by now.
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Alfonzo’s Arctic Adventure: Boss number 2 – Battsu the Maturity Elf #screenshotsaturday #eskimobob #alfonzo #nesdev #indiedev #gamedev
David Buck wrote a great article about the NES Homebrew Scene. Don’t miss it!
Face your destiny on the Island of Trials! Wyvern Tales is a traditional JRPG, exclusively developed for the Atari Lynx. It’s time to dust off your Lynx and jump back into the action again. Pre-Orders are now open.
Curse of Kildren is a PICO-8 game by gfcarstensen. It’s a Zelda like adventure. Defeat the wizard Kildren and release the kingdom from his wintery curse. Features an Overworld and 6 dungeons to explore. Includes 6 bosses, and many different enemies, weapons and items.
Changes:
* Added an additional, easy to find chest with a heart in it early in the game.
* Made max health be 9, not 8.
* After dying you now start with 4 health if you have it, not 3.
* Added one more red potion in the first container.
Endless Plants vs Zombies for PICO-8 by gfcarstensen has been updated. It’s a demake of a very famous game, so there should be not much to explain. Fight zombies while getting support from defensive plants.
Changes:
* Controls were adjusted, please leave feedback.
* To select plants move the cursor to the top of the screen using joystick or keyboard and select the plant, then move back down to the square you wish to plant on and press the A button (Z or C key on the keyboard).