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Nerdism is starting to show

After a depressing blog entry yesterday, I figured I'd throw a more cheerful (sort of) one up tonight. I spent the last few hours starting to learn how to program games for the Sega Genesis. Yes, you read that correctly. I know, I know, the Sega Genesis is a very dead console, but there is a huge community of collectors and gamers who still love that system. I would have started with the NES or the SNES, but right now, it's way out of my experience level. I had found some useful tools to develop for the Genesis, and to my surprise (well, not really), I picked this up pretty quickly. The only downfall is that the dev community for the tools I'm using isn't very large, so information is scarce.

I did manage to create some graphics (Final Fantasy 4 and 5 sprites), and made a quick demo of the character walking over some background tiles. It's nothing to brag about, so I'm not going to bother showing screenshots or a video of it, or even put the ROM up for download. I'm now working on animations, to make it look like the character is actually walking, though, that'll happen in the next few days. I think I screwed up the graphics so now when you walk left, you're facing right, and so on. I'll fix that later on and continue learning the ins and outs of this.

I was originally planning on making an RPG, but I think that might be a little too much to take on right off the bat. I have a good idea on what the first game will be, and what it will be like, but I don't want to get ahead of myself. There's still a lot to learn (collision detection, scrolling backgrounds, game saves, etc), so I will be pretty busy learning while developing. It should be an interesting journey in the land of retro development, that's for sure. Plus, I still need to finish AirBlogger. The other project will get put on hold now (don't worry, it wasn't that cool of a program anyway).

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