Scrobins

Added Oratorio for the NES, in development by John Vanderhoef.

Added 8-Bit Music Power Encore for the Famicom, in development.

Added Super Cambur for the NES, in development from NAPE Games.

Added Stack 'n Attract, a Sega Genesis game in development by John Riggs.

Added Tryptic, an NES game in development through Crazy Group Trio.

Added Bottle Boy, a Gameboy Color game in development with Bitmap Soft.

Added Repugnant Bounty for the Gameboy Color from Limited Run Games.

Added Far After for the Gameboy Color from Bitmap Soft. At the moment, I only see a Collector's Edition available.

Added Pelusa Saga: Kaji's Trials for the NES from Broke Studio.

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1 hour ago, Ferris Bueller said:

Did you figure out how to sign up? I couldn't and thought I'd missed the window.

It wasn't clear to me, but maybe you could PM him on Twitter, that's how I usually got in touch.

Here's where it gets interesting...Konomi's Monster Party Bishoujo Mahjong Gaiden Beta Version is not just a game in development for the Famicom from Habit Soft. He is soliciting help in its development by selling copies to willing assistants!

Added Konomi's Monster Party Bishoujo Mahjong Gaiden Beta Version for the Famicom, but see post in Almanac as well!

Added Norenwake Yakitori Master Toriku Jr. for the Famicom.

Added Crabbie Attack for the NES.

Added/edited the name of the Gameboy Color game Dragonborne to include the new name Dragonnyhm.

Added The Fallen Crown for Gameboy Color, now live on Kickstarter!

Added the name of Yuzo Koshiro's Genesis game to Earthion.

Added Torgman Adventures for the NES, now open for pre-orders.

Added Mr. Lee's Alishan Tea Collector Demo for Famicom.

As some of you may have seen on Discord, I'm working on a new State of Homebrew post for next year or so, with another survey. I would love your help taking the survey and sharing with anyone you think would be interested in participating. This one is anonymous if that is any help. It's titled 2025 because although I'm hoping to post this a year from now, these take a long time to write and I wanted to be realistic about when it might come out. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsdCjehSUEO-Dl2Gn3HMM2zsgf5IZj-j05VngIGfdzEK2vQQ/viewform?usp=pp_url

Haha I’m pretty chill about just about any pronunciation, but the way I say it is scra-bins

That makes sense to me, tools like NESmaker and GBstudio have done a good job promoting their offerings to larger audiences beyond this community, attracting folks who just be virtue of learning about these tools are feeling the itch to try their hand at programming for these consoles. In those cases I could see indie games as their only frame of reference.

I personally like the term homebrew, and I think that aftermarket and indie can refer to similar, overlapping things. The arrival of industry vets with financial muscle to make new games certainly blurs the lines, and ultimately people should use the terminology they feel fits them. What’s important to me is that there isn’t any elitism where one person is insulted that a term like homebrew is applied to them. It’s all amorphous and we want to support each other, be what you want without being defensive.

Added Space Mutants for the NES.