The Book of Rynn's internal testing for the demo is going well! We're going to be adding more people to the playtest soon with a bunch of fixes and updates! Comment below if you would like to join! #jrpg #nes #gamedev #indiegames #retrogames #thebookofrynn

The Book of Rynn demo is out for internal testing. Expect the grand announcement soon! #nes #jrpg #retrogames #indiegames #thebookofrynn

Our final boss is in! Ofc I'm not gonna show you, but I can't wait for you guys to fight it! Not much longer before we launch the demo! #nes #jrpg #indiegames #retrogrames #gamedev #thebookofrynn

Moved the Astrals tablet collection to the INFO screen. You may also notice new window borders styled like pages of a book, plus a new custom font. We felt it was time for Rynn's UI to develop an identity of its own while preserving the classic NES RPG feel. We hope you like it!

Playing through the whole game again! Notice anything different? 🤔 #nes #jrpg #retrogames #indiegames #gamedev #thebookofrynn

To celebrate the upcoming unveiling of The Book of Rynn public demo, we're releasing the game's OST on Bandcamp! We'll be revealing new tracks progressively in the lead-up to our crowdfunding campaign, but you can listen to the main theme today: thebookofrynn.bandcamp.com/album/the-bo...

The Book of Rynn OST, by The Book of Rynn

12 track album

thebookofrynn.bandcamp.com

I spent a good few hours fine tuning our first story's final boss to make the fight interesting and hard enough to keep you on your toes. Can't wait to share! #jrpg #nes #retrogames #indiegames #gamedev

Testing, testing and more testing. You cannot imagine how excited I am to share The Book of Rynn with you all! #jrpg #nes #retrogames #gamedev #indiegames #thebookofrynn

While testing, I decided to introduce collectibles: the Astral Tablets. Five goddesses, five tablets, hidden in inconspicuous spots around the world. Each will grant a different blessing to a party member of your choice. Happy hunting! #jrpg #nes #gamedev #retrogames #thebookofrynn

I just added a small but very essential feature I had completely overlooked: XP recaps when saving your game! 😎 #nes #jrpg #gamedev #indiegames #retrogames #thebookofrynn

TIL balancing and pacing an RPG is art, but I'm close! 💪😎 #nes #jrpg #gamedev #retrogames #thebookofrynn

Happy to announce that map work is complete for our demo/first story! In The Royal Seal, you will visit: 1 castle, 4 towns, 6 dungeons and 2 shrines on top of the overworld. Next: balance pass, internal testing and then public demo release! 😎 #nes #jrpg #indiegames #retrogames #gamedev

Been experimenting with tileset variants for dungeons and I'm pretty happy with the results! #jrpg #nes #gamedev #indiegames #reteogames #thebookofrynn

Do you really have a classic JRPG if you don't have doors and matching keys? #jrpg #nes #indiegames #retrogames #gamedev #thebookofrynn

I'm 3 maps away from completing our first story, and playable demo, in The Book of Rynn. Internal testing for balance and pace should start shortly! #nes #jrpg #gamedev #indiegames #retrogames

Turns out designing overworld maps is harder than I expected but here we are: the world map for our first story: The Royal Seal (subject to change, so don't save it just yet!) #nes #jrpg #thebookofrynn #indiegames #retrogames #gamedev

The Book of Rynn's first story production is coming along great but I've been bothered by map load times for months because of compression, collision handling, etc. Took a step back and cut this time by more than half and that makes me really happy! #jrpg #nesdev #retrogames #gamedev #indiegames

Working on Sanpoor, a small village high up in a mountain pass. The village has been dealing with terrifying ringing sounds coming from the well, causing earthquakes and rockfalls, blocking the pass. Wonder what's in there🤔 #jrpg #nes #indiegames #retrogrames #thebookofrynn

Fancy some 8-bit gardening? I know I do! 👨‍🌾🥕 #nes #retrogames #indiegames #nesdev #gamedev

Push Start Games@pushstartgames.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here is a fun 15-sec snippet of what we've been cooking. A new gardening game for your NES, just in time for summer! 👨‍🌾 All WIP, more info soon :) #nes #retrogames #indiegames #nesdev #gamedev

I'm still here! I'm clearing out bill paying work so it's out of the way and I get the rest of the summer to work on Rynn with very little distraction. 😎

Finally got a glimpse of #dragonquest 12 for #dragonquestday However, I was really hoping for a Zenithian trilogy HD2D so I'm leaving a bit sad! Oh well, maybe next time 😎

Some weeks ago I needed a break and spent a weekend making a black box-style cooking game for the NES. Here is ChopChop, enjoy all 5-10 minutes of entertainment: sebotron.itch.io/chopchop #nes #retrogames #nesdev #indiegames #gamedev

ChopChop by sebotron

A fast-paced retro cooking game for the NES.

sebotron.itch.io

Apologies for the radio silence: I've been catching up with bill-paying work for the past two weeks! I'll be back in the saddle shortly. Here's another 15 secs of random bits of our first story in the meantime! #jrpg #nes #indiegames #gamedev #retrogames #thebookofrynn

Do you love cave dungeons? I love cave dungeons! #jrpg #nes #indiegames #gamedev #retrogames #thebookofrynn

Past me: balancing a retro rpg is easy! Current me: 🤦‍♂️

Filling up data files by hand is fun but I have to say, having editors is fun too! Just hammered this quick monster editor for Rynn. #jrpg #nes #8bit #nesdev #gamedev #indiegames #retrogrames #thebookofrynn

It is said that an old man lives in an ancient library at the top of the Tower of Damaris. The tower is surrounded by poisonous swamps and its lower floors are guarded by monsters. What wisdom will Torin find at the top? 🤔 #jrpg #nes #retrogames #indiegames #gamedev #8bit #thebookofrynn

Sometimes I take breaks from gamedev and when I do, I often do more gamedev. Here's a quick and dirty experiment running on the SNES. A future Rynn game maybe? Ok back to real work. 🤭 #snes #nes #16bit #jrpg #gamedev #indiegames #retrogames

Map layering was a bit more of a headache than I expected and that's as fast as I can get it to work for now. Had to reduce my tileset to 32 tiles so I could use the top 3 bits of each tile to assign a "region" from 0 to 7 but hey it works! 🤓 #gamedev #retrogames #nes #jrpg #thebookofrynn

Our little map editor started as a fairly simple tile placement tool but can now support "regions" that can hide and reveal when crossing certain triggers. Pretty neat! #jrpg #nes #indiegames #retrogames #gamedev #thebookofrynn