Loading...Here's a fun little NES programming trick I was shown tonight.
The problem: how to hide sprites that pass over HUD at the bottom of the screen?
The HUD isn't actually on a separate layer or anything, so how can I get sprites to go behind it? 🧵
Solution: At the moment the HUD starts drawing, clear all the sprite graphics to blank tiles.
Technically, the sprites continue to render over the HUD, but now they are just empty squares!
Turns out that this is exactly how how Super Mario Bros 3 handled things!
In great company 😁
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When making games on the NES, nothing is easy!
With a LOT of help from the #nesdev Discord, I was able to clean up the seam above the status bar.
Also there's some new (temp) art, and I even perform the forbidden mid-frame palette update for extra colors!
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Here's something you don't see in every NES game:
A platformer with ZAPPER support! Super Sunny World allows a 2nd player to kill enemies with the Zapper Gun.
Mae Borowski is the main character of Night in the Woods! It's an adventure game that tells the story of her return to her hometown of Possum Springs. She was confirmed as canonically pan in a social media post by the game's creator Scott Benson.
An NES crossover!
The Kraken from my first NES game, "From Below", will make a cameo as one of the bosses in my next NES game, "Super Sunny World"🌞
Super Sunny World is a new pixel platformer, and a love letter to the original Super Mario Bros.🍄
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