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April 1, 2024

8-Bit Brigade Launches Kickstarter

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Indie developers unite for 8-Bit Brigade, a Switch compilation of NES homebrew games, now crowdfunding on Kickstarter. We’ve covered the crowdfunding campaigns for several NES homebrews around here. Usually their purpose is to produce physical versions on real NES cartridges, but getting the games published on modern hardware is another matter (unless it’s Steam, then you just roll the ROM into an emulation package and hit “publish”). So, these indie creators figured, why not team up and release one massive compilation title? Thus was formed the 8-BIT BRIGADE. The campaign launched today. 8-Bit Brigade contains ten of the biggest NES projects of the last few years, from developers like Dale Coop (Skate Cat), Nate Peters (Doodle World) and YouTuber John Riggs (Yeah Yeah Beebiss II). The #1 goal is to produce a physical copy on Switch, and for that to happen a higher number of pledges has to be hit — the goal is $60,000. They’re a long way off, but with 29 days to go (and your help), they

September 10, 2020

Take The NES To Doodle World In This Clever Indie Game

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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 physical cartridge was launched today. Peters says the inspiration for the game came from his daughter, and many of the designs are based on her actual