Monthly Archives: July 2015

[Personal] NES Craigslist Haul

Yesterday I grew my NES collection by almost 20 games. I found a great local retro games collector/dealer on Craigslist.

Craigslist haul

Craigslist haul

NES and SNES are my favorite consoles. This weekend I’m going to play each of these games with my wife and a few friends. I should find lots of inspiration for next week’s posts buried in these cartridges!

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[Meta] Hello World

The purpose of this blog will be to show people how to make retro style games with GameMaker Studio. GMS is expensive, I try to keep costs down by mostly using free or very cheap software.

I picked GMS over cheaper alternatives, like Construct 2, because GMS is easier to use and more powerful. Plus it exports to more platforms than most other engines. All code/art I create will be FOSS, under the loosest, most permissive license I can find. GMS project files will be available for download for each week’s project.

I plan to release a post on this blog, daily, starting 8/3/2015.

 

 

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