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sebotron | working on an NES JRPG!

@sebotron.bsky.social

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Hobbyist NES and Gameboy dev, guitar player and math rock enthusiast from Montreal, Canada. Working on The Book of Rynn, an NES jrpg inspired by Dragon Warrior/Quest. Join me on Discord and ask me anything! https://discord.gg/s9c3g4XaTC

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sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · Apr 22

I made a Discord server in case people would like to come and hang and chat about the game, share ideas, ask me anything, yk, just chill. Here's the link: discord.gg/s9c3g4XaTC

Join the The Book of Rynn Discord Server!

Check out the The Book of Rynn community on Discord - hang out with 2 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · 1d

Ngl this was a giant PITA but we now have a map layer system with progressive flood-fill reveal. The only thing I'm not happy with is that it's 25% slower than I wanted, mainly because of the way the VRAM buffer is handled by the library. I'll eventually replace said library but for now, it'll do.

sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · 2d

busted! 😅

sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · 3d

My gf got me clear NES shells for my birthdat! There's also a purple one I'm going to use to build an OpenTendo! 🥳

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sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · 9d

Apologies for the radio silence! Bill-paying work has reared its ugly head. Progress reports on The Book of Rynn will be back shortly!

sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · 17d

This is giving me agita

sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · 20d

Omg, this is so fun. I need to slam this on a cart and get someone to play it with!

Matt Hughson (NES & GB Dev) @mhughson.bsky.social · 20d

Air Hockey on the NES and it feels *really* good. Kind of blown away by this one. Check it out!

bthacker.itch.io/air-hockey-n...

Air Hockey - NES Black Box by bthacker

Air Hockey for the NES!

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sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · 21d

First look at towns in The Book of Rynn! Tileset is WIP but it's coming along great! Can't wait to see this populated with NPCs! #nesdev #jrpg #thebookofrynn #indiegames #retro #8bit

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sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · 24d

The Book of Rynn would not be complete without poison swamps! RIP Steve. ⚰️ #jrpg #nes #retrogaming #indiegames

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sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · 27d

We need people to test dev roms and make sure my shoddy programming doesn't break. The only requirements are that:

- you can run an NES emulator
- you've played (and loved!) the NES Dragon Warrior games
- you can spend some time with the test builds and report back on your experience

Send DM!

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sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · 27d

Aw thank you! Doing our best 💪

sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · 27d

I'm not gonna take credit for that part but yes 😅

sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · 29d

Overworld menus are almost done. ITEM use, transfer and discard are done. What's left: STATUS formation, EQUIP and SEARCH. Then we're finally moving on to the BATTLE LOOP! ⚔️🐉

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PrettyStrange @prettystrange.bsky.social · Sep 9

Just make it exist first!

Speaking of... Myself and a couple friends are making a new Dragon Warrior inspired NES JRPG exist! Check it out: sebotron.itch.io/the-book-of-...

#thebookofrynn #nes #homebrew #jrpg #aseprite #pixelart

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sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · Sep 6

Prepare to be dazzled: completed Status Info screen! #thebookofrynn #nes #homebrew #jrpg

sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · Sep 2

I was hoping for NES and I am absolutely gonna be grabbing this on physical if I can!

sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · Sep 2

Well you have time to play all four NES DW games before this is out 😅

sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · Sep 1

I am celebrating Labor Day by laboring.. on the game ofc so it's not really work 😅

sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · Aug 31

Made some good progress on the battle loop. Also integrated new monsters, designed by @prettystrange.bsky.social! Do these look bad ass or what? #nesdev #jrpg #dragonquest #thebookofrynn

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sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · Aug 29

I copied the map editor and slowly turned it into a sprite editor! It's got basic drawing tools and canvas resize. Imports 16 indexed color PNGs mapped to 4 subpalettes, output is a CHR file of all the tiles in the canvas. I can even preview animations by specifying regions of the canvas as frames.

sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · Aug 28

Awesome thank you sm! I'll have a look!

sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · Aug 28

Can I ask what dev env you've been using? There are a few options on psx.dev but not sure which has the best experience! Sure looks great!

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sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · Aug 28

When my brain needs a break from coding I draw little character sprites and honestly I think it's my fav thing to do. Here is a scribe. In The Book of Rynn, scribes are responsible for saving your game, healing status effects and raising your fallen party members! #nesdev #nes #8bit #retrograming

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sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is more or less the final version of the map editor. Better palette, tile and map management and can import and export all the files the game needs. Also realizing I only have 4 tiles left for the overworld! I need to add a tower and I'll have 2 left. What else to add? 🤔

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sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · Aug 26

I didn't know about the origin of the Enix name! Interesting!

sebotron | working on an NES JRPG! @sebotron.bsky.social · Aug 26

Added a tile editor to the map editor so I'll be able to create tiles directly and then export the binary CHR data for the game.

Now I'm thinking of doing a sprite editor w/ support for animations after this. 🤔