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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.

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Evil people in the real world aren't subtle. In fact, they often think looking evil is cool.

Think about how they often name their companies with the same names used by game designers, authors, and filmmakers for their evil orgs/items/characters. For ex.: Bain Capital, Cerberus, Blackrock, Palantir

As the saying goes:
"Subtext is for cowards"

They also have the Slay! perk that allows them to substitute Charisma for Strength in attack rolls.

I love the note, too:
"Mini Moai shoot mini rings"

I can't help but imagine "The War Queer" as some sort of new DnD subclass.

I love that feeling! Zeropage memory is sooo good.

Ghost of Yotei star: 'workers need more protections' in game development 'If you're watching this, if you're like me, please demand that the workers are treated fairly.'

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

Console output from compilation that says: 1>GoblinLove.nes 1>filesize = 65552 1>bank size = ? 1>1 = 8192, 2= 16384, 4 = 32768:number_banks = 2 1>bank 1 = 2.92% empty. Or, highest run of 958 bytes of zero. 1>bank 2 = 0.0% empty. Or, highest run of 0 bytes of zero. ========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ========== ========== Build completed at 11:05 AM and took 02.392 seconds ==========

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.

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I can drinkz video game?

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

Nice!
I've been building a custom shell app around a NES emulator for PC releases. We can chat about the tech in FXBG.

Thank you so much!
What can I say? I wear my nostalgia on my sleeves!

March is here!
This month on the NES Homebrew Calendar, (re)discover Banana Bash, the excellent puzzle game from @work3studio.bsky.social! 🍌😍

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Thank you! Especially the Dragon Warrior part. I'm speccing this game to the same circuit board (CNROM) as the first Dragon Quest.

Welcome to Adalwood, a forest town in Even Goblins Fall In Love.

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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.

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I dread the part where you have to go into a dark cave, fight Darth Vader, and then, after defeating him, find out he was you.

Game development is weird.

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.

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Don't they realize that mental health is the greatest game of all?

That feeling has been my life almost all the time with Even Goblins Fall In Love.

Especially because I wanted to use the same mapper as DQ1 (CNROM - 4 banks of CHR, same PRG space as NROM)

BPE compression and storing data in CHR have been lifesavers.

Pixel art layout for current world map for Even Goblins Fall In Love, an 8-bit NES JRPG

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.

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It's an adventure, for sure.
Loads of compression and hiding data in CHR has been a godsend.

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!

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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.

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