Hello, long time hobby gamedev new to Nesmaker

[SkipDrake]

Hey all,

I reckon I'd join the forum, seeing as I'm really getting into Nesmaker.
lil bout me I guess....
I started coding when I was about 6 years old in '85 or so...

I LOVE the NES, growing up with it and a lot of the ol consoles and computers of the 80s....

After about 25 years I got really good and thought I guess I had an amazing talent and RPGs were
my specialty; if I was coding with C/C++ on PC with the ripped gfx prepared as I like
I could write a Final Fantasy 6 engine that would feel/make you believe you were playing the real type thing on SNES in about a week or 2 if I did 6-8h days...
(the battle sys is the biggest job, would be real tiring today at that pace)

Unfortunately, my health is not great and seeing as I suck at drawing GFX,
I gave up coding for good round 11 years ago, my last projects being a visual novel interpreter with its own coding language and
an MMORPG which worked well, but the gfx were just too much for me, and I lost the will to work on it while I was doing a DB mailbox system last.

I guess it was kinda a bad thing to never use such skills again. I did try NES coding for the nostalgia, but YIKES is it ever hard.

Then I found this NESmaker which makes stuff SO much easier. It kinda got me back into the hobby so far. I love the idea of making my own carts and stuff!
Really must thank the creator(s) for such an awesome tool.
I'm studying the tutorials and stuff at present so I can learn how these tools work to the fullest...

So yeah, that's bout all I can think of. Nice to meet y'all!

 

[Logana]

Hello nice to meet you, I mainly focus on music and trying to get into pixel art. Good that this is getting you back into a hobby ;p

 

[PasseGaming]

Greetings and Salutations!

 

[Jonny]

Hi

It's definitely a shame to let your talent goto waste. There are probably quite a few people who are open to a collaboration for your graphics if you don't have much interest in that side.

Anyway, glad to meet you. All the best with your learning of NesMaker.

 

[SkipDrake]

Hi

It's definitely a shame to let your talent goto waste. There are probably quite a few people who are open to a collaboration for your graphics if you don't have much interest in that side.

Anyway, glad to meet you. All the best with your learning of NesMaker.

Yeah, I used to do EVERYTHING myself, so I wouldn't mind if I ever truly come back to video game development to do that sort of thing. What really sucked in the past though, was whenever I tried to get GFX help people just reacted like it wasnt possible to do what I did so they didn't wanna help....despite having a pretty complex demo (well just the platformer engine I made, I haven't shown an RPG engine since the 90s)

I'm oddly tempted to do a PC FF style RPG engine/maker....and other wierd projects like an 80s computer simulator of my own design (did this once and it was fun, but I wonder what use it would have to justify the work....lol unless people into retro computing would be into that sorta thing)
Or especially tutorials to teach people the skills I learned, but I worry that the massive amount of work would be too much for me now.

It's nice to think about.....I guess still considering a lot of things.

 

[Jonny]

Think about your health first. That's the most important thing. Without that, you can't do anything.

I'd offer graphics help myself but A. I wouldn't want to let anyone down by taking on a massive project and not having the time to deliver. and B. My skills are not quite there yet to produce graphics of quality at an acceptable speed to others.

RPGs are not something that interests me personally but I know there are LOTS of people on this forum wanting to learn even just the programming concepts and how to get those ideas into a NES game with nesmaker and assembly code. If you're getting into nesmaker, that could be a direction to go in?

You don't have to justify the work if you're having fun lol.

 

[dale_coop]

Welcome SkipDrake
Very happy to have you here with us.
Your experience in dev will be very helpfull.
Make sure to watch all the tutorial videos (on the official webpage) to know all the limitations and issues of NESmaker and its different modules.

Can't wait to see what you will create with NESmaker.

 

[9Panzer]

Welcome!