I still think one of the best compliments I've gotten for my physical NES releases is having (not just one person) tell me that my games smell authentic. That opening the boxes actually brought back childhood Xmas memories. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

I fixed a sequence break in Even Goblins Fall In Love by moving one of the shopkeepers from this town to a different town. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #screenshotsaturday

The main combat mechanic of Even Goblins Fall In Love, our indie NES JRPG, is applying doses of status effects on enemies. The final dose type, BLAST, explodes all applied doses for direct damage. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

It may not look like it, but this treasure chest caused a bad bug at the end of the game. It's fixed now. I won't show the bug here right now though because *spoilers*. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

@fortexp.itch.io, the composer for Even Goblins Fall In Love, has just released their game Wish Creatures on Steam. Check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/3094990/...

Wish Creatures on Steam

Turn your monsters into stars and wish on them in turn-based battle!

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With the limited space of a 64 KB ROM, find ways to reuse assets and mix palettes is a vital skills for adding visual variety to the dungeons of Even Goblins Fall In Love, our indie NES JRPG. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #screenshotsaturday

This creature implements a lot of sequence break protection for Even Goblins Fall In Love, our indie NES JRPG. It varies it's behavior based on the player having certain key pieces of equipment. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #screenshotsaturday

Due to increased shipping and component costs, we will be raising the price of our physical NES games on Etsy. The price will increase from $50 to $60 starting from Sep. 1st.  Order before then to get the games at the current, lower price. www.etsy.com/shop/SkyboyG...

We're back from travel, so the Skyboy Games Etsy shop is open again. Act now to get physical NES games at a lower price before we raise the price at the end of the month due to increased component and shipping costs. www.etsy.com/shop/SkyboyG...

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Shop items by SkyboyGames.

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Yet another bunch of the creatures you will encounter in Even Goblins Fall In Love, an upcoming indie JRPG for the NES. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

Finished fixing bugs from the last QA run of Even Goblins Fall In Love, our indie NES JRPG. Now it's time for another round of parameter tuning followed by another QA run. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

Tired of the own-nothing, unaffordable RAM future? Buy new games for old tech. Do not surrender your future. skyboygames.itch.io/gunhawk #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

Each gear slot has 4 options. The player gets the first gear option in each slot by default, so we can ignore those when generating passwords only have to save 3 bits of data per gear slot. Retro #gamedev can be such a rush. #indienes #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

The end of a game's dev cycle produces some of the most interesting bugs. I just fixed a bug where the last piece of equipment in each gear category for Even Goblins would disappear after loading from a password save. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

More of the creatures you will encounter in Even Goblins Fall In Love, an upcoming indie JRPG for the NES. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #screenshotsaturday

This is a sampling of some of the creatures you will encounter in Even Goblins Fall In Love, an upcoming indie JRPG for the NES. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

I got a long-reach stapler to enable creating my own saddle-stitch booklets. That's all well-and-good, but I'm looking at the feature text on the box and it's like: "12-inch reach!", "two-finger operation!" Hmmm... 😏

Recently finished a complete playthrough of the latest version of Even Goblins (all the way from beginning to end) and I have a slew of tweaks and bugfixes on my task list now. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

The Double Dose Potion doubles the dose of applied status effects for the next attack Lin makes. Here, Lin applies SHOCK to an enemy who remains affected by SHOCK despite recovering from one of the applied doses. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #screenshotsaturday

I’m ready to launch my YouTube channel with this first post: an audio recording of my first blog post, which covered Project Blue for the NES! Listen all the way through for a bonus treat! #homebrew #projectblue #ahomebrewdrawsnear youtu.be/6qJqgsliChU?...

A Homebrew Draws Near! #1 - Project Blue

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I've reached the point where I am writing a draft version of the manual for Even Goblins Fall In Love. It makes sense when you think about it, but the manual for a game itself is an important part of the QA process. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.

The Skyboy Games Etsy shop will be going on vacation mode from July 23 to August 10. Order games now if you'd like to get a physical NES copy of our games shipped without delay. www.etsy.com/shop/SkyboyG...

With the direction the industry is going, being a #gamedev that specializes in physical games is feeling, not just contrarian , but downright important. Like, making physical versions of my games used to be about it being fun and cool. Now, it feels almost existential.

Just experimented with running Even Goblins Fall In Love in our in-development app shell for Steam. If this works out, I might be able to launch Even Goblins simultaneously as a ROM on itch and on Steam. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #screenshotsaturday

Times like these* call for the guillotine! * I was referring to trimming draft manuals for my NES games. What were you thinking of? #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

NEXXT (@FrankenGraphic) updated version of Shiru's NESST, NES Screen Tool) has been a go-to tool for creating data for Even Goblins Fall In Love. Highly recommended if you want to understand how NES graphics work: frankengraphics.itch.io/nexxt

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Shout out to Compress Tools, a suite of compression algorithms particularly suitable for #nesdev. www.romhacking.net/utilities/882/ The Byte-Pair Encoding implementation was crucial for me to fit text and map data into the ROM for Even Goblins Fall In Love.

Our indie NES JRPG, Even Goblins Fall In Love, is getting a little guest cameo from Nekomancer of Nowhere! store.steampowered.com/app/3180290/... It seems this magic cat has some sort of gift for Lin. #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #screenshotsaturday