dale_coopPassing the time while waiting for the Byte-Off competition live stream!
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Happy Byte-Off day! ☕️
Tonight’s the night! The new edition of NESmaker Byte-Off competition begins. Here’s the link, join the premiere at 6 PM EST and interact with the community!
See you there!
🍿 https://youtu.be/OiYsWCyUVsY
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Byte Off V Theme Reveal
James‘BYTE OFF” may be familiar to the fans of the series Stranger Things. Dustin wore a purple shirt with this design on it. It turns out our daughter’s-in-law father created that design back in the 80s. He produced tee shirts, visors, etc. Her friend bought all of his inventory some time ago. The costumers for ST then bought all her Byte Off items which the tee shirts ended up in the show.
This is one of the original tee shirts our DiL kept from her dad’s collection.
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This is one of the original tee shirts our DiL kept from her dad’s collection.
#Family #StrangerThings #DIL #Designs #ByteOff #Wardrobe
Adam Holmes🏡Holmade GamesWorking on the updated portraits for Substation 7 Episode 1! They were both drawn by me but one under a tight deadline and with ink. ✏️♥️
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rough draft of my next comic for Substation 7 is up on my Patreon for free, Space Cowboys! 🛸🚀🤠
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My awesome teens and I are excited to announce that Substation 7 has taken home the first annual Emissary award for best game from a cross-generational team! A house full of award-winning game devs? Check! ✅✅✅
Check it out here: https://theretroverse.com/product/substation-7/
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Substation 7
Byte-Off IV Introduction (aka wth is this?!): My kids and I had a lot of fun with this! Our entry for Byte Off IV decided to take the form of the first issue of a ‘Zine (link provided if you understandably need to know what that is). A ‘Zine, that is, that happens to come with an episodic NES game! For now it’s digital but it is fun to imagine a physical version on our shelf. The sprites are meant to pair with, and evoke, the “rough and dirty” look of the 90s ‘Zines that I grew up with, introducing the style to my kids and allowing us to express ourselves in a way that is raw and fun for us. It’s also very freeing for both the dev and the player, to eject the story into a fun-to-consume package so that when you start playing.. you can just play with minimal story stops, hopefully making for a smoother, more arcade like gaming experience while maintaining a deeper narrative and enhancing the immersion in it. That’s the idea anyway, and where better to experiment than Byte Off! This episode acts as an introduction to the galaxy, and each subsequent episode will come with a self-contained story and a game that could be any genre but taking place in the Substation 7 Universe. So prepare for genre hopping fun and look forward to discovering new planets, meeting new cowboy factions and even exploring Substation 7 itself in future episodes! My kids and I had a blast just letting our imagination roam free and creating this universe which we didn’t originally intend to extend beyond the Byte Off.. but the lore of it seems to have a way of growing around our house and it’s now taken on a life of its own. 😉 And with that (apologies if long-winded) introduction out of the way, my little progeny and I are proud to present to you Episode 1 of Substation 7! Things we wanted to get to but didn’t in the initial release but then we’ll add it after the Byte Off is over because it’ll be cool and wow this sentence is getting long: Old fashioned gas pumps to refill life/ammo (a bit moot due to infinite lives and checkpoints) Lazers in Drack’s Castle Resort have been temporarily disabled due to opening day malfunctions. We thank you for your patience! The music (podcast chatter ambience) in the Podcast Princess Cowboy Area isn’t playing for some reason and that area is as a result alarmingly silent.. we were losing our minds trying to fix it so will come back to it later lulz Satellites and signs will give universe exposition or interesting facts in a future version.
A great video compilation of all 52 Nominees for Byte-Off IV!! So many new free NES games for you guys to try!
https://youtu.be/rPllkc6I7po?si=uANsdJKaU1VpTEQR
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Play new NES games. Make new NES games.
Kevin81Want to play new NES games? Here's 52 of 'em, all made in the span of five weeks for Byte Off IV, the (almost) annual NESMaker competition.
https://theretroverse.com/special-events/byte-off-2024/
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My kids and I entered #ByteOffIV (the NESMaker game jam) this year and our entry decided to take the form of the first issue of a late 90's highschool 'zine that comes with one episode of an episodic NES game. Intrigued? Confused? Read and play the first episode of #Substation7 at this link, and thanks for checking it out!
https://theretroverse.com/product/substation-7/
#indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #retrogaming #nes #nesdev #indieretro #nesmaker #6502asm #byteoff #byteoffiv #byteoff4 #gamejam
Substation 7
Byte-Off IV Introduction (aka wth is this?!): My kids and I had a lot of fun with this! Our entry for Byte Off IV decided to take the form of the first issue of a ‘Zine (link provided if you understandably need to know what that is). A ‘Zine, that is, that happens to come with an episodic NES game! For now it’s digital but it is fun to imagine a physical version on our shelf. The sprites are meant to pair with, and evoke, the “rough and dirty” look of the 90s ‘Zines that I grew up with, introducing the style to my kids and allowing us to express ourselves in a way that is raw and fun for us. It’s also very freeing for both the dev and the player, to eject the story into a fun-to-consume package so that when you start playing.. you can just play with minimal story stops, hopefully making for a smoother, more arcade like gaming experience while maintaining a deeper narrative and enhancing the immersion in it. That’s the idea anyway, and where better to experiment than Byte Off! This episode acts as an introduction to the galaxy, and each subsequent episode will come with a self-contained story and a game that could be any genre but taking place in the Substation 7 Universe. So prepare for genre hopping fun and look forward to discovering new planets, meeting new cowboy factions and even exploring Substation 7 itself in future episodes! My kids and I had a blast just letting our imagination roam free and creating this universe which we didn’t originally intend to extend beyond the Byte Off.. but the lore of it seems to have a way of growing around our house and it’s now taken on a life of its own. 😉 And with that (apologies if long-winded) introduction out of the way, my little progeny and I are proud to present to you Episode 1 of Substation 7! Things we wanted to get to but didn’t in the initial release but then we’ll add it after the Byte Off is over because it’ll be cool and wow this sentence is getting long: Old fashioned gas pumps to refill life/ammo (a bit moot due to infinite lives and checkpoints) Lazers in Drack’s Castle Resort have been temporarily disabled due to opening day malfunctions. We thank you for your patience! The music (podcast chatter ambience) in the Podcast Princess Cowboy Area isn’t playing for some reason and that area is as a result alarmingly silent.. we were losing our minds trying to fix it so will come back to it later lulz Satellites and signs will give universe exposition or interesting facts in a future version.
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