Carpet Shark (Fista Games)

5kids2feed

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Download the rom file HERE!

After two months of very little free time (had to wait until the wife and kids went to bed). I’ve officially completed my first game here for the NESMaker community. Hope you enjoy the commercial I filmed with my son!


Carpet Shark. Based on the 2013 Fista Productions short film.

"A shark's soul is trapped inside an 8x10 area rug. It's General Major Cadaver Scab's duty to keep the shark tame. Can he? CAN ANYONE?"

Play as the Carpet Shark. Eat as many victims as you can before the timer and your health run out. After each level, fight one of the 4 bosses (our characters from the movie). Try to eat the bosses weapons to fire back at them. Can you beat all 4 levels?

Runners = 100 points + 1 health point
Skulls = 200 points
Dark Skulls = 300 points
Bosses = 1000 points

Depending on how high or low your points are, you will get a different win screen at the end of the game (0 - 9,999 points, 10,000 - 19,999 points, or 20,000+ points).



On the Title Screen, if you wait it’ll go into a cut scene. You can also press the select button to get to/scroll through the cut scene so you don’t have to wait.

There are four secret rooms. On the High Score screen:
Hold Left & Select for secret #1.
Hold Right & Select for secret #2.
Hold Up & Select for secret #3.
Hold Down & Select for secret #4.



My best friend created the title theme and main theme for the movie. I transcribed them to the NES the best way I could. Then I made more original music with help from my friend, Logana. He also helped make my original songs sound so much better!

If you’re interested in our ridiculous movie we made 8 years ago, you can watch it here (oddly this was filmed right before Sharknado and all the crazy shark flicks that followed).

Here’s the old WIP page if you’d like to see how the game developed.


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^Cartridge label artwork. I get printed from Stone Age Gamer.

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^BitBox Artwork that you can get for Stone Age Gamer cases (if you search their database).

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^A 1 page 1 side manual for inside the box (4.25x5.5)



Special thanks goes out to @dale_coop @Logana @CutterCross and @Jonny for helping me when I was stuck in different aspects of this game. You’ll see their names in the credits screen of the game.

Let me tell you how hard it was to make such a simple game.. Every time I fixed something, it seemed like I broke 5 other things... I thought I was going to blaze through putting it together like I would when I made games with klik n play/click n create/multimedia fusion... NOPE.. for something so little, it was by far the toughest thing I’ve had to make.. I have finally accomplished my childhood dream of making a game for the actual Nintendo NES .. Now ..I’m going to go outside for a bit.

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5kids2feed

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Thanks for all of your musical help, buddy!

I’m gonna tell you now. If you do the left&select (press left&select to get back from this one) and the down&select (This one you’ll figure out how you can get back) secrets you can get back to the high score room to do one more secret.. then you have to beat the game again to do the last one.

So basically save the right&select and up&select secrets for last.
 

5kids2feed

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@Logana Right??! It’s super cool. I have an iphone. But my kids have android devices all throughout the house. Can’t wait to try on there!
 

5kids2feed

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We have our first official fan art!

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By a gentlemen named Yan on the Facebook group. He says:

“I really love the game and at some point intend on putting a cart together for myself, so this is the PAL variant box.”
 

5kids2feed

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Made a playthrough of the game. If you don't want the game spoiled, don't watch! If you don't mind.. go for it.. I do a pop up video thing where I give tips about the game and info about us.
 

Logana

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man their is so much cool imformation in the video, I loved it, loved the game too, gonna pop that sucker on a mapper cart print out the box art and play it any time I get the Chance, then when I have kids I will let them play it. :3
 

5kids2feed

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@Logana You are the man! As you saw, you got many mentions during the video 😉 Great idea!! Do it!!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻





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^Awesome keychain from 9panzer (had to take a picture of mine in the carpet).
 
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5kids2feed

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Friday in Carpet Shark news.... wtf this is awesome.

Received this message:

“Hello. My name is Scott Dayton and I run NEO Games, fancy name for my Atari 2600 Home Brew releases. I love your Carpet Shark game and I wanted to see if it was O.K. to do an Atari 2600 version of your game? It would be possible to get a version running that has all the same elements. Let me know what you think of the idea.”

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Logana

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woah that's absolutely stuning ,btw if they want I can transfer over the music, just need a way to get in contact with them as they would need to tell me what software to use, amazing how much this game resonates with people.


nvm about the contact thing i looked up neo games and they have a website with a contact list.
 
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5kids2feed

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Right?! Blew me away honestly. So cool. Lots of neat stuff has happening since I released the game 10 days ago. Makes me wanna do more projects!

Sick! Glad you figured out the contact information. I’m sure they’d really appreciate that! I only have his Facebook profile. If you need that, let me know. I’ll private message you it.
 

Logana

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alright, exited to get done with all my other projects so i can start doing music for your next project, Its a really neet idea.


closed my music request because i need to get everything done first, I can re open them when im done
 
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5kids2feed

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Can’t wait to see all of your finished products! You’re a busy man! ..I’m working on that project as we speak! But at the very beginning stages. We doing things my friend 🙌🏻
 

GlassFrog

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Had a play of this the other day and its good fun, I only got to the second level, so I think I need a bit more practice :D
Ever thought of making a 2 player game mode, that would be great!
 

5kids2feed

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Thank you! Haha it can be hard at first and that’s what I was going for! Like an old arcade game that you master, then it becomes nothin’!

Oh wow.. that’s a really good idea. I would have to fiddle with that. I was already getting slow down with only one player.. I can only imagine it screeching to a halt with two players 🤣 Maybe if I rebuilt the system with the knowledge I learned from making this game. Something to look into in the future 🙌🏻
 
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