Do it! plz

NES Homebrew Calendar History tidbit #2: Chris Brand aka Deadeye collaborated with Kevin on the 2021 calendar before taking over altogether for the 2022-2024 calendars. Chris is also known for the excellent Homebrew in Focus blog & podcast series.

I'm thrilled the calendar is still going! I didn't think it would become any kind of tradition, but I hope it keeps going another 15 years. Imagine the quality of games that will be coming out then!? I'll be 60. Insane. Ok, let's stop going down this scary rabbit hole. We're old enough as it is.

Sadly the time had come to pass it along to someone else after that. I finally had a career going and carving out time to dedicate to finding people who wanted their games featured and putting the designs together grew harder and harder every year.

I kept the calendar going myself for another 6 years, with the last order I placed myself on December 6, 2020. It was cool seeing the community grow, both in quality of the games being produced and the new people coming in to buy everyone's games and place calendar orders.

I never had a goal in mind. I took some graphic design classes back in college, so using some of my skills to put something together seemed like a simple enough idea. I had no idea what to expect as far as if others would find it a cool idea. The homebrew community was a lot smaller back then!

The first calendar I had printed was on November 12, 2014. I was totally enthralled with NES homebrew and I wanted to find a way to celebrate them year-round. Designing a calendar seemed like the perfect way to do it.

The Quick and the Dead
Tombstone
Open Range
Unforgiven
Desperado
(for a weird one) Sukiyaki Western Django
The Dollars Trilogy of course

Classics or more modern?

The demo is now live!

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