KUBO 3

[dale_coop 63]

When he was creating his previous small game for the NESmaker Byte-Off 2019 competition, my son had lots of ideas that he would have liked to incorporate into his entry game. However, due to lack of time, he wrote everything down and told me that it would be for the next game... that how was created KUBO 3.

The game takes up the adventures of the cowboy turtle where the previous episode ended. The Evil Mole kidnapped the villagers... and Kubo will have to find 4 sacred objects in order to free them.

   

It took my son Seiji almost a year to make this game. As usual, we mostly worked on it for a few days during school holidays or on rainy weekends.
He wanted to finish it before our February vacations because he wanted to hand it to Joe Granato, the creator of NESmaker (on a short trip to Florida for a few days).

(Joe Granato & Seiji - Feb 15th 2020)

We hope you will enjoy this little game as we had fun making it.

Tools used: NESmaker, Paint.NET, Notepad++, famitracker
Soundtrack: Raftronaut

 

Updates:
2020-07-01 minor cosmetic adjustments (bushes, cemetery level) for the cart version to come
2020-04-24 fixed the death issues (in the under water level) and small modifications to balance the game
2020-04-12 small modification (the graphics on the Castle door tile was not the correct ones)
2020-03-27 added english/french languages support, fixed a few issues to make the game more coherent/balanced
2020-03-04 fixed/moved some tiles in the overworld that could get the player stuck in solid tiles when entering some screens

 

Downloads:
https://dale-coop.itch.io/kubo-3-nes-game-by-sj-games

 

Gameplay video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmvFVepsiaw 

 

Physical NES cartridge complete in box (this summer):

(for pre-orders, contact me on PM or emails, Twitter, FB,...)

 

Cart only version is also still available:

 

Edited July 23, 2020 by dale_coop

[RH 1,360]

Congrats to your son on finishing his third game!

[Raftronaut 59]

Hey Congrats Dale and SJ games! 

Here is a link to the OST if anyone is interested. 

Seiji wrote the main melody for the title music which I transcribed from a phone recording Dale sent me. I arranged it for the game from there. It was a fun project and I am glad I could contribute to your family project

[CMR 178]

I bet Joe and company love seeing stuff like this.

[erockbrox 22]

I gave the game a shot and collected two pieces. I'm an english speaker, but know enough spanish to somewhat understand the text in the game.

All was good, but I traveled from one screen going down south and then appeared on this screen and got stuck on the rock. It's a soft lock. If you do an official release on Kickstarter or something then you probably want to fix this. 

But overall pretty decent. Music is pretty fun to listen to also. And the cut scene at the start was really impressive.

Edited March 2, 2020 by erockbrox

[dale_coop 63]

Thank you, erockbrox, for having played and for your precious feedbacks. my son designed most of the screens, and I tested and tried to fix all those  screen to screen collision issues I could find. I guess, I missed some of them

 

PS: We will not make KS... the game might stay on a very limited run, for friends / family and people who really want one physical copy.

[dale_coop 63]

updated (fixed the issues, found by erockbrox)

[dale_coop 63]

Updated, added English/French language support (and fixes a few small issues)

[dale_coop 63]

Updated, fixed some death issues

[dale_coop 63]

This weekend, we finished the new label and the box (for the physical release planned for... soon)

Now, working on the manual...

 

[Scrobins 834]

My latest episode of A Homebrew Draws Near features KUBO 3, take a look!

 

[dale_coop 63]

Thank you, scrobins, it was an awesome moment. Seiji was so happy and excited to reply your questions  

[dale_coop 63]

Just wanted to share some photos of the current state (thank you Broke Studio):

 

 

[dale_coop 63]

Almost all the copies have found a new home... packages are shipping this week (some already sent last week) and a few next week.

Thank for all the people who supports Seiji's project (and thank you, Broke Studio, for all you are doing <3)

 

Edited September 2, 2020 by dale_coop

[dale_coop 63]

New year... new plans.

KUBO 3 might be released on Famicom... we are working on that. It will be CIB, English/Japanese language (and the addition of a hard difficulty mode, for fun).

 

And an exclusive NES cartridge for KUBO 1&2 will come later this year (CIB, limited copies because not sure a lot of people might be interested). 

 

Pre orders will start soon for the FAMICOM and the KUBO 1&2 editions.

 

As usual, if someone is interested to pre-order his copy or knows someone who would be interested, contact me and share around you.

 

 

Edited January 4 by dale_coop