i make video games

I made this GIF of all the eversions from Eversion NES.

Game Boy Wavy Scanline Effect #2

Here's a GIF full of spooky warped faces that move around.

I made a wavy scanline demo for the Game Boy, with a face made by gaucheartist, of pixeldigest fame, used with their permission.

This is a map that I was making for an exploration sidescroller named Molasses Meow / Molasses Monsoon. It stars a neon blue cat, Molasses Meow, in a pink world, that shoots hearts to collect friends. Your goal was to eventually bring all your friends together to make a tower to a floating castle in the sky.

It was meant to be an exploration game with emphasis on finding cute creatures, and navigating weird environments by solving their riddles. I need to pick it up again someday!

Hey!

Thank you, I hope that one day I can release it for the public to use! It's still got a bunch of things I need to figure out, but I hope even if it's not as powerful as LSDJ, it makes up for it in ease-of-use.

LSDJ's been around for years and has lots of people using it, whereas Bleep was only started about a month ago and still isn't out yet.

And I'm actually making Bleep in part so I have a music player engine for GB games later. I plan to put everything about Bleep out in the open (source, file format, secondary tools, demo songs) and completely for free once it's done.  :D

About the song length! It's possible that one day I could bump up the max song length. A lot of space is consumed because the songs aren't broken into patterns, it's just one big block of notes. Also, there's a bunch of features I still need to figure out so I don't want to promise too much space for songs if I need to cut back later. I'll have a better idea by the time there's the first release.

This is the battle screen for an RPG I was once making as a homebrew project for the NES. All of the art in this mockup follows NES restrictions and tries to make the most out of it.

This was going to be an action-driven RPG along the lines of Star Ocean (although significantly simplified skill systems and no complicated crafting crap). I wanted to make a colorful battle backdrop because there are very few NES RPGs that have detailed backgrounds. I also wanted nice, animated character sprites that moved around in realtime.

My Game Boy music maker, Bleep, has come a long way already! You can make songs that are up to about 3 minutes long. It has a few things left to do and I'm ready to put this out in public.

Features: - Piano roll interface - 4 channel songs (square, square 2, wave, noise) - Autosave (all notes are written directly to save RAM) - 2048 note columns per channel, ~3 minutes depending on tempo. - Custom instruments (in progress), up to 256 slots. - Planned drumkit style controls for noise channel. - More to come.

Here's a song I made with Bleep, which I'm kind of happy with: https://soundcloud.com/minimumoverkill/bleep-song-1

Here's a video of another Bleep song. This was composed by Flashygoodness, recorded off my Game Boy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Z-LFLAwOM

Thanks to everyone who's supported me or expressed interest about this so far! I really hope Bleep will be useful to both enthusiasts who want to learn to make music (like me), and also to experienced 8-bit composers. I think it will succeed in being a lot more approachable than LSDJ, maybe not as powerful, but that's okay.

It's a long way off still, but started mocking up a music maker for the Game Boy, which I've called Bleep for now.

The other day I made a basic music engine, and I'm looking to expand that into a music tool, with design inspiration from Mario Paint, Wario Ware DIY, and Sound Club.

Here's a clip of me playing with the sound engine I prototyped, no editor yet: https://twitter.com/Bananattack/status/476948819478065152

As a follow up to my past posts, I've finally separated the individual pieces of the cat into their isolated frames of animation.

I think I might actually kill the idea for "the ground is cats" and replace it with something more intuitive and fun.

Since the beginning, I was thinking I was always thinking of "Snake-like" movement for the cats. Snake is a pretty neat game because of its movement mechanics and its whole growing-as-you-progress thing. It's pretty computationally cheap to move large curved snakes around too, it just needs a circular buffer to store the positions of every tile your snake covers.

Anyways, rather than try and remember all of I was thinking, let's just jump to the part I wanted to talk about. What if there were a game sort of like snake, where:

You're a cat

You slide around around on your back with your legs in the air, because then you get to the the interesting parts of a cat from, like its face and legs and stuff

You get longer by eating food

You move along a tile grid and the rest of your body steers along the path you've just take

You can hug things when you surround them in your body

You can dash into walls and stuff

You don't auto-pilot, instead directional keys must be held to continue to move

You can steer from either your head or your tail, allowing you to reverse.

Moving into yourself isn't fatal -- if you manage to bump into yourself, you've enclosed an area and anything inside receives a hug.