Nuevos juegos de la mano de "Infinite State Games"

[K'rohnen]

Buenas!

De vez en cuando suelo revisar el foto de FlashMasta, que se podría decir que es la comunidad de Neo Geo Pocket pero en EEUU. Me gusta entrar porque hay propuestas de desarrollo para consolas como la NGPC entre otras y es el único lugar que conozco donde se centralizan (de momento...).

Hay un usuario que suele estar activo y es el único que a día de hoy, ha hecho tutoriales para desarrollar homebrew para la NGPC y no es otro que Chris Ahchay. Este chico parece que colabora con el equipo independiente de desarrollo de videojuegos llamado Infinite State Games y han sacado dos nuevos títulos para Neo Geo Pocket Color.

Ambos parecen ser juegos tipo puzzle pero la verdad es que de primeras, tienen buena pinta.

"Don't Die Mr Robot"
Por un lado tenemos "Don't Die Mr Robot" que es un demake del juego original


"Fruit Pal's Revenge"
Parece ser un título completamente original



¿Alguno los ha probado? Yo aún no he tenido tiempo pero si que tengo intención de hacerlo. Para mi, son los primeros juegos completos homebrew que se hacen para la NGPC y creo que eso es bastante importante.

[DValdivia]

Lo probé en la página que compartiste y no conocía para nada el proyecto. Es curioso, sí, pero siento que no hay un homebrew serio o profesional como en otras consolas, sino más bien proyectos algo improvisados. Aun así, tengo ganas de ver el juego que tenías en desarrollo. @K'rohnen

[Ahchay]

Preview of the next game from myself and ISG - Horatio Goes Snowboarding

https://ahchay.com/NGPC/Play.html?ROMId=HORATIO.ngp

This one is a little bit more ambitious

Release in June 2026 - physical and download copies will be available - register interest via the comments on the post above

Downloads will always be free, but boxed physical copies will be available for £50 (and I can do more copies of both DDMR and Pals Revenge)

[K'rohnen]

Preview of the next game from myself and ISG - Horatio Goes Snowboarding

https://ahchay.com/NGPC/Play.html?ROMId=HORATIO.ngp

This one is a little bit more ambitious

Release in June 2026 - physical and download copies will be available - register interest via the comments on the post above

Downloads will always be free, but boxed physical copies will be available for £50 (and I can do more copies of both DDMR and Pals Revenge)

Haha! It's so funny. I'm pretty bad, I'm not able to overcome 2nd level. But the first approach looks good. From my point of view, the selected palette of colours for the game is not the best, those reds and blues make me cry.

[DValdivia]

Preview of the next game from myself and ISG - Horatio Goes Snowboarding

https://ahchay.com/NGPC/Play.html?ROMId=HORATIO.ngp

This one is a little bit more ambitious

Release in June 2026 - physical and download copies will be available - register interest via the comments on the post above

Downloads will always be free, but boxed physical copies will be available for £50 (and I can do more copies of both DDMR and Pals Revenge)

I've already tried it, and it seems like a more serious project than your previous ones. Is it a mix of Frogger and Cool Boarders? Do you plan to include Spanish or have any future projects in mind? I hope you keep releasing more games.

[Ahchay]

Thanks for the feedback both

I don't have plans for localisation yet, but I can dig out the text if anyone would fancy having a go at them? Most of my text is hard-coded, but I could change that up fairly easily. I'd have to ask to keep it to the standard Roman alphabet as much as possible as I'm using the space reserved for accented characters for graphics - I could find room for a few accents if really needed

The source game was a parody of an ancient ZX Spectrum game "Horace Goes Skiing" - and that's also where a lot of the palette comes from - as you say, a combination of Frogger elements and downhill skiing. I've included a couple of elements from Ski Free as well (if you get to Day 4 you'll meet the yeti)

And yes, there are more on the horizon - Currently working on "Rogue Aces", but I may sneak in "Gardenia" before I release that

Early, but playable versions below

https://ahchay.com/NGPC/Play.html?ROMId=GARDENIA.ngp
https://ahchay.com/NGPC/Play.html?ROMId=ROGUEACES.ngp

BTW: All of these games (apart from Gardenia) are "demakes" of games by UK indie publisher Infinite State Games - https://infinitestategames.com/

Edit: If anyone would like to have a try at localisation - then Rogue Aces is the game most in need of it

[Ahchay]

Just using google translate to do some basic localisation (German might be a bit problematic with a 20 character limit )

What would be a shorter way to say the following in Espanol/arcade speak?

PRESS A TO TRY AGAIN -> PULSA LA TECLA A PARA INTENTARLO DE NUEVO
ENTER YOUR INITIALS -> INTRODUCE TUS INICIALES
SQUADRON LEADER -> COMMANDANTE DE ESCUADRÓN

Also - when talking about movement styles - I have "relative" movement (i.e. turn left/right) and "absolute" movement (i.e. Go in direction of joystick) Would I be correct in using RELATIVEMENTE and ABSOLUTAMENTE - or are there shorter ways to say the same thing?

[K'rohnen]

PRESS A TO TRY AGAIN -> Presiona A para reintentar. Shorter way => "A - Reintentar"
ENTER YOUR INITIALS -> INTRODUCE TUS INICIALES. It does not have a shorter expression.
SQUADRON LEADER -> Líder de escuadrón. Same, it does not have a shorter expression. Maybe if the context is easy to understand, "Líder" is enough.

Regarding "RELATIVEMENTE and ABSOLUTAMENTE", the correct forms are "Relativo" and "Absoluto". When you use word+"mente", you are using a modal adverb, and in this specific case, in Spanish it sounds weird.

[Ahchay]

Horatio Goes Snowboarding - available for download now at https://ahchay.itch.io/horatio-goes-sno ... cket-color

[Ahchay]

PRESS A TO TRY AGAIN -> Presiona A para reintentar. Shorter way => "A - Reintentar"
ENTER YOUR INITIALS -> INTRODUCE TUS INICIALES. It does not have a shorter expression.
SQUADRON LEADER -> Líder de escuadrón. Same, it does not have a shorter expression. Maybe if the context is easy to understand, "Líder" is enough.

Regarding "RELATIVEMENTE and ABSOLUTAMENTE", the correct forms are "Relativo" and "Absoluto". When you use word+"mente", you are using a modal adverb, and in this specific case, in Spanish it sounds weird.

Thank you, that's perfect I can find extra space on the high score screen and have already factored in longer versions of the difficulty text

Fancy having a pop at 128 lines of (short) dialogue? I can't pay much, but I'll cut you in for a small % of the cart sales - should be enough for a couple of beers

32 missions in the format:
Mission briefing: "Go and shoot those things"
Character responses: one for each character
Mission complete: Wrap up text

Again,I've got a google translate version of my scripts, but I'd bet that that's a bit clunky. You don't have to follow my script if you don't want to