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Indie game developer Nate Peters has just put the finishing touches on Doodle World, his homebrew NES game….and just in time; he was running out of crayons. You might assume establishing a unique look on a machine as graphically primitive as the NES might be difficult…but Peters pulled it off. Doodle World looks like no other NES game out there, official or otherwise.
The game looks like it takes place on notebook paper. The colors look like they were applied with crayon. Due to its small graphics bank, the NES can’t store enough data to fill an entire background with unique tiles, which is why 8-bit era graphics tend to repeat themselves. Though clever shading and use of patterns, Peters has managed to disguise this and give Doodle World a feel like it’s actually designed on paper.
The Kickstarter campaign for a Doodle World...
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