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Clever Cat Matt 😺 🎮
@matt.clevercat.games
Solo game dev working on an #NES game titled "Echoes of the Unread"
🎮Play the Demo: https://clevercat.itch.io/echoes-of-the-unread
⭐Follow on Kickstarter: https://tinyurl.com/eotu-kickstarter
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Fully funded in 24 hours?!?!

Thank you to everyone who's supported the game. I'm overwhelmed with emotion.

bit.ly/MCSEUKSSM
Echoes of the Unread – A New 8-Bit Musical Adventure
Sing, play, and adventure your way through this magical 8-bit NES quest!
bit.ly
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It's been 40 years since the NES was released in North America.

And a whopping 50 years for the CPU which powered it: the MOS 6502.

It launched at $25 in 1975, orders of magnitude cheaper than its competitors and became of the most successful microprocessors of all time. #NESdev
September 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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ICYMI: the Video Game History Foundation just acquired a giant lot of mystery development ROMs from Japan (NES/MSX, from Taito?), and we're going to digitize and dissect them live on stream next Thursday, June 4th at 1pm PDT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nFA...
We're Dumping 125 Mystery Prototype ROMs!
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
www.youtube.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Browsing for secrets in a haunted library 📚👻
#gamedev #pixelart #indiegame
May 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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BIG NEWS! Thanks to the amazing support for #EchoesOfTheUnread on #Kickstarter, we're now aiming for amazing stretch goals! Our target is $25K for #Steam, and $30K for #NintendoSwitch! 📖✨

Help us achieve these goals with Rhapsody: bit.ly/MCSEUKSSM
Read the full update: bit.ly/MCSEOTUKSU1
May 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Fully funded in 24 hours?!?!

Thank you to everyone who's supported the game. I'm overwhelmed with emotion.

bit.ly/MCSEUKSSM
Echoes of the Unread – A New 8-Bit Musical Adventure
Sing, play, and adventure your way through this magical 8-bit NES quest!
bit.ly
May 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thank you so much for the support over the year and a half! It was a huge motivator to finish the game.
May 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Thanks to @megacatstudios.bsky.social for making the awesome trailer!
April 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Official Gameplay Trailer for Echoes of the Unread
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2qB...

Coming to Kickstarter May 19th!
Echoes of the Unread - Official Gameplay Trailer
YouTube video by Mega Cat Studios
www.youtube.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT

We are thrilled to launch Homebrew Factory, our new platform that allows gamers to purchase homebrew games and helps creators bring their games to life!

➡️ Store: www.homebrew-factory.com

➡️ Factory: creator.homebrew-factory.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Play as Rhapsody and escape the library that holds a magical mystery about the shelves that came to life! 📖✨

Follow #EchoesOfTheUnread on Kickstarter: bit.ly/MCSEUKSSM
March 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Did you know that MMC5 also has a feature called vertical split where it can switch tilemaps mid-line? Turns out it's possible to make SNES-style shaped windows out of this by changing split position each line!
#nesdev
January 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Here is one of the puppets I made.
January 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
What are these goofy looking creatures? Puppets! When I was younger I was in a puppet troupe, performing skits that featured aliens, kind of like the Muppets. I wanted to honor them in my game, as one of the performers sadly passed away from cancer a few years ago.
January 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The topic of the first playable female protagonist isn't as cut-and-dried as folks might like to think. There are many flavors of first, which trips people up. Who was the first on arcade, computer, home console? In the US, Japan, Europe? I'll try to unravel it for you here in a thread. 🧵
January 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I have a similar affliction. Persona 4 and Super Metroid are some of my favs as well. I gravitate toward making Metroidvania games because it’s what I like to play.
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Project Reid, the upcoming game from @lavenstar-games.bsky.social, looks incredibly promising, a survival platformer for the FC/NES! 😍👍☕️

#NES #homebrew #nesdev #NESmaker #indiegames #gamedev #ファミコン #同人ゲーム
🎍 あけましておめでとうございます!
2025年もよろしくお願いいたします。現在開発中の『Project Reid』について、初めてのご報告です!このゲームはサバイバルプラットフォーマーで、プレイヤーは何度も挑戦を繰り返しながら進んでいく内容になっています。スピードやスキルが試される場面が多く、少しパズル要素も含まれています。今年も応援よろしくお願いします!#ファミコン #ゲーム開発 #同人ゲーム #自作ゲーム #nesdev #nes
January 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Nine years ago, I made a Super Mario Bros. ROM hack as a gift for my sister's birthday. It featured the two of us running to get coffee at the end of each level. #nes #mario #family
January 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
If you were stuck in a library overnight what would you do?
December 27, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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Trapped in a library of living books? Sounds like an adventure! 📖✨

Join Rhapsody on her journey through #EchoesOfTheUnread. Sing, explore, and conquer unique worlds inspired by different genres.

Follow on #Kickstarter: bit.ly/MCSEUKSSM
December 13, 2024 at 10:31 PM
I've been programming for 20 years and learning to code can feel like a foreign language for quite a while. I've not met a programmer where everything clicked the first time. Keep pushing through and the barriers will break down. You got this!
December 7, 2024 at 11:37 PM
You'll get there! Skills get better with practice and making mistakes. I've made a lot of prototypes and games over the years. Also, most of the art are assets that I modified with a bunch of code to stick it all together.
December 7, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Yep
December 7, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Since I'm mostly in bug fix mode on my other game, I thought I'd mess around in #Godot for a bit. #indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday
December 7, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Nice! Impressive you can move the character while the dialogue is shown. In hindsight, I wish I would have gone with something more like this to have room for more dialogue.
December 6, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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Just a reminder that your local library has more than just books! Many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, internet hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and so so much more! Maybe it's time for a visit!
December 2, 2024 at 3:21 PM