Today is going to be spent authoring collision on the original Shinobi maps using the excellent Tiled from @bjorn .

I might have a pop and completing some of the weird maps left in the ROM too.

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Dev Update 2 on my Shinobi: Commander X16 rewrite.

I've moved to arcade fidelity graphics, which look absolutely awsome on the Commander X16!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TntV3rE6Dg4

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Think I'm just about ready to start using this now. Will also throw it up on Codeberg at some point. Properly documented of course.

Minified, this whole engine is a single 17KB Javascript file, and approx 2KB of that is the MIT license text. 😁

The font adds an extra 8.8KB but isn't technically needed, and again that includes the MIT text.

I do plan on adding more to it yet mind. Eventually.

https://development.qweb.co.uk/qjerg-demo/

#Javascript #retro #gameDev #retroDev #retroGameDev #pixels

AlleyQuest: An Interview With the Developer Bringing a 1983 Classic Back to Life "On staying faithful to a classic, tackling level design, and the power of Phaser Editor." https://phaser.io/news/2026/04/alleyquest-how-one-developer-is-bringing-a-1983-classic-back-to-life

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After a detour through a top‑down prototype, a single tip from a fellow retro‑dev sparked a new direction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWALZHOpN0I

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Tessarium is a tile-first retro #pixelart level editor, built for the #Nintendo #Gameboy / GBColor #development and smoother GB Studio workflows by Joel J Games

https://joelj.itch.io/tessarium

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