Alp's Art Blog

Your nes screenshots are gorgeous and your mock-up 2600 screenshots are now closer to the 2600 system.

 

Is Cat Quest your first game you made?

Your nes screenshots are gorgeous and your mock-up 2600 screenshots are now closer to the 2600 system.

 

Is Cat Quest your first game you made?

Thanks! Optimizing the 8x8 tile work was the fun part of the project.

 

Before Cat Quest, I had been developing games for almost 16 years, professionally for almost 13 (Mostly programming hentai games). I decided to take some time to re-learn 6502 ASM to make a small-scale NES game. (My previous experience was with a Commodore 64 when I was younger.)

 

Needless to say, the unacceptable behaviour of the NES homebrew scene, resulted in cancellation of the game, and my current disinterest in games.

 

Cat Quest was about 30% complete when I scrapped it.

 

The Overworld was finished, along with 2 out of 5 Dungeons.

There were 40+ unique enemies programmed, with re-colored sprites, but completely unique behaviour between them. No bosses had been programmed.

Man that would have been a beautiful NES game!

Unacceptable behaviour?

 

Now you get my attention.

 

Did you get angry messages from NES community?

Unacceptable behaviour?

 

Now you get my attention.

 

Did you get angry messages from NES community?

Yes. Somebody mentioned that I should use KickStarter to finish "Cat Quest".

 

I absolutely refused that suggestion, on the grounds that I was previously screwed over on a programming job, by some indie developer. I made it clear that I don't like KickStarter, when it's been abused by so many scammers.

 

A few members made fun of me for saying this, so I attempted to further explain my stance--

 

Rather than looking at this objectively, and acting like adults--

The comments became nastier, and somebody decided to make an absurd claim against me (I will tell you via PM if you wish, but it's... pretty bad.), and publicly gave out my e-mail address.

 

After the first wave of harassment in my inbox, a clear betrayal of trust towards the community, I announced the cancellation of my games, and closed the threads for them.

 

To add insult to injury, afterwards, a number of members of the community were bad-mouthing me in the public thread, from only having heard half of the story.

 

Screw them and their toxic community, clearly, I shall *never* live up to their 50+ NES pong clones!

Well, there's always the 2600! Welcome home. It's a great idea whatever system you choose.

Well, there's always the 2600! Welcome home. It's a great idea whatever system you choose.

My thoughts exactly. As an engineer, I have the capability to put my games on ANY console I desire, so long as I take the time to make adjustments.

 

Right now, I'm taking a break from anything gamedev related.

Damn dude, I’m really really sorry to hear that. That game looked absolute gorgeous and I remember a long time ago when I saw screen shots you posted. I was like “now THIS is something I would play!” I don’t follow on that site very often because a lot of the people on there are pretentious snobs. Ridiculous when know it all tools are telling YOU what to do with your game and how to go about it. It’s like “go measure your dicks elsewhere, ya entitled pricks” very sorry to hear that the community turned you away from making what looks like an incredible title. It’s a serious loss for the community of people that really appreciate this stuff. If you ever decide to go back and finish it off, I’ll tip my beer for ya in cheers and gladly donate to the cause. Looks like it wouldn’t been a great title brother