Turtle Rescue

TurtleRescueNES

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So here's the result of starting with nothing and roughly 8 hours of exploring NES Maker's capabilities:

I give you the worst video game ever! ;)

I still have a lot to learn, but my goal is to make a cute little game where our hero turtle collects seashells while dodging crabs and maybe other nasties.

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EDIT TO ADD ( DOWNLOAD THE DEMO .NES FILE ON PAGE FIVE )
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TurtleRescueNES

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Second attachment didn't seem to take, so here it is again. Sorry... learning how this particular forum works here.
 

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RadJunk

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Awesome! Love seeing that someone made a non-human protagonist! You're the first, that honor belongs to you! :)

Don't worry, in the next beta update (at least, for May) you'll be able to do cool things with collecting objects and whatnot (and a lot more). Great job!
 

Bucket Mouse

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TheNew8bitHeroes said:
Awesome! Love seeing that someone made a non-human protagonist! You're the first, that honor belongs to you! :)

No one's done an inanimate object yet! I'm doin' that one.
 

TurtleRescueNES

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I tried to upload a video, but wow, did YouTube compress the hell out of it. In the meantime, I cooked up a slightly better title screen. I found the special screen editor was very stubborn with setting multiple palettes.
 

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erockbrox

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Youtube seems to usually work just fine for me. I wonder if it was another issue that lead to the high compression.
 

Mihoshi20

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I really like this idea, it's cute and sounds like it'll have a classic arcadey feel to it. I could have easily seen this being on the NES back in the 80's.
 

TurtleRescueNES

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Played around with the graphics, added some mean crabbies, and finally resolved some bad tile definitions. This is almost passable for a game.
No magic win button yet, though. :D

https://youtu.be/o0zL8wAHDPM
 

TurtleRescueNES

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Still buggy and incomplete animations from the move to 3.1.3, but that upgrade has allowed me to add the ability for my turtle hero to fling seashells at baddies, create a mean raccoon boss, and come up with an overall goal for the game: save a nest of turtle eggs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Ar3_6zUH0
 

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Mihoshi20

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I like it. Looking like a fun little game so far. I really like the raccoon boss. Seagulls might also make for a good enemy along with the crabs if you do more screens until multi-enemy types per screen becomes a thing.
 

TurtleRescueNES

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Thanks! I was really happy how the raccoon turned out. Just googled some pics for reference, then drew the raccoon freehand into the pixel editor. I did cheat and used MS Paint to get a perfect flip since he's background tiles and not a monster.

New video uploaded of a fully functional raccoon boss battle:

https://youtu.be/ZTEy4lHsDTI

In the video, our hero, Toby the turtle, has seashells as his normal weapon. He can easily dispose of some mean crabbies, but when he confronts a nasty raccoon, he finds that his seashells are not enough and is defeated by the raccoon's rotten fruit. Toby returns, this time with a backup energy bazooka weapon that easily eliminates the raccoon's weak points.
 

TurtleRescueNES

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"Untitled Turtle Project" has reached a milestone: I am now tentatively calling it "Turtle Rescue" complete with a new beachy logo.

I'm not doing too much with the game mechanics at this point as I know a new engine is on its way and may have to start over. Plus, I have a 4 day vacation coming up and I'll be away from my computer. So when I return, I plan to draw more assets so that when the next beta of NES Maker comes out, I'll have more sprites to play with. :)
 

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dale_coop

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Yes the gradient text is very nice (I hope you would be ok if I reuse this idea for my start screen titles too).
Anyway, thanks for sharing your WIP :)
 
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