I've got a few projects in progress for old Nintendo consoles.
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Sliding Blaster 2, for SNES, is a game jam project (for
https://itch.io/jam/snesdev-2025) though I'm just making a game under the same restrictions and under roughly the same time period, since I'm not interested in having my game on the multicart or having my game judged. It's a sequel to
Sliding Blaster for NES, which in turn is inspired by Ballmaster 2, which is a shareware Windows game from the early 2000s. In this game, you play as
Rocket,
Ichugo, and
Alex, who pilot a remote control hovercraft toy with a cannon to defeat waves of enemies. The hovercraft is constantly moving, and bounces off of walls, but can be boosted in different directions to maneuver around. It's meant for the SNES mouse but can be played with a regular controller. I'm going for a "toy" theme and the playfield is supposed to be made of wooden blocks and the background is planned to look like that one city rug. Of course because I couldn't help myself the enemies are extremely silly, including stuff like the Cookie Crisp wolf creating cereal boxes with him on them to attack you, the "Bad Guy" Bionicle set, silly puns like a very hot wheel, YouTube Poop references, etc. But I think Undertale and Deltarune show that you can have a very silly game with a lot of heart put into it.
I started on this because it seemed fun to make something at the same time as other people, and I wanted to just have a completed game project since it's been years since I finished and released a traditional game (
my Dr.Mario clone doesn't really count), so something very small scope with straightforward design seemed ideal. This is kind of on pause due to Art Fight but I'll get back to it!! In August if nothing else.
Source code
Gameplay video
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I have a currently untitled maze game for Game Boy Color starring my sona
Maffi, in which she explores randomly generated mazes in cyberspace and defends herself with a magic paintbrush while guiding lost critters to the exit. You can press A to flick and hold A to roll the brush, and this uses up paint, which replenishes itself automatically (yes this is Splatoon inspired). You touch the tiles with the bunny-like icon to get a character to follow you, and then you touch the exit tile. Waiting around for a moment will show you where you need to go next. The game also has some enhancements on Super Game Boy!
Hoping to get back to this once I have the above project done. This was supposed to be a small 32K Game Boy project since that's a fun scope limiter, but I really like the idea I have here and wanted to put more effort into drawing animations and tilesets for it, and I want to (later) draw a Super Game Boy border. I would like to make some actual 32K games in the future.
Source code
A build
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My main project is an ambitious, complicated SNES platformer starring starring
Nova, my mascot, who can run fast and copy abilities Kirby-style using special magical stars. It's a sequel to
an earlier NES game of mine like Sliding Blaster 2 is, though that game has more of a joke-y story and I wanted to do something more sincere here.
Source code
Gameplay video
Gameplay video of a 3D platformer mode some of the levels will use
