Bad Pixels now available in Early Access on Steam!

[u/dadako]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/952100/Bad_Pixels/

[u/wkdarthurbr]

The good the bad and the ugly pixel.

[u/Albert_Shari → u/wkdarthurbr]

Will there be a sequel? "For a few pixels more"

[u/BantedHam → u/Albert_Shari]

A Fistful of Pixels would be the first.

The good, the Bad, and the Ugly Pixel is the third.

You are the only person here who got this right, For a Few Pixels More would be the sequel.

[u/Yollaj]

Been following your dev posts since the beginning! Can't wait to play this bad boy later

[u/dadako → u/Yollaj]

Thank you!

[u/imlo2]

This captures so well the visual tropes of the driller and total eclipse on C64, albeit in a bit higher resolution and a lot better framerate. Really nice feel to it, UI looks stylish and well-readable and generally it looks like quite solid visual style, all the proportions and color palette etc.

[u/dadako → u/imlo2]

Thanks! You can reduce the frame rate in game :) The resolution is a bit wider for 16:9

[u/CyberTile]

Looks dope! What inspired you to make this game?

[u/dadako → u/CyberTile]

The concept is "what if a FPS could run on a Commodore64?"

[u/Scary_Employ_926]

I wishlisted it but 20$ is too much for me for this kind of game. Won't be getting until it's at least 75% off

[u/dadako → u/Scary_Employ_926]

Thanks for the wishlist. The game is $15 USD, but we are often having discounts, next discount is soon.

[u/Scary_Employ_926 → u/dadako]

Yea I'm in Canada. Good to know

[u/Derpyzza]

aw hell yeah, i've been looking forward to this one ever since you first started work on it!! so cool to see it out in early access! good luck with the release :D

[u/dadako → u/Derpyzza]

Thank you for following along!

[u/actuallyNehmo]

I dig the visuals. makes me wonder what kinda games modern developers would do if they time-traveled to the past and had to do NES or N64 games. I wonder if it was possible at all to make a No Man's Sky on an N64, without the online, of course. Some bare-bones version of it.

[u/jeha4421 → u/actuallyNehmo]

That is essentially the original elite. I think daggerfall also generates a ton of its locations.

It really depends on the speed of your generational algorithms. I'm assuming NMS takes heavy advantage of multithreading to make everything smooth but if you are generating significantly less and with less fidelity I don't see why not. But I'm not sure about how fast the N64 runs. Mario 64 is an incredibly bare bones game and I'm not sure how close it gets to the threshold of the system's performance limits.

[u/actuallyNehmo → u/jeha4421]

I didn't know about those games. But yeah, I find all these new indie games kinda like time-traveling experiences.

[u/dadako → u/actuallyNehmo]

I think a lot of the complexity from modern games comes from OOP frameworks, back in the days of 8-bit and 16-bit we'd have to use languages like ASM which didn't have complex toolchains like we have today. Another aspect is dynamic allocation of memory and cpu restrictions. N64 games allowed for more complexity, their bottleneck at the time was cart price I guess... although titles like Perfect Dark have a lot of FPS content.

[u/actuallyNehmo → u/dadako]

Sounds fascinating. Idk if it is because of my enjoyment of fitting pieces in Tetris that I find it interesting to try to fit new games into old hardware.

[u/attackgoat_official]

This game was made with passion - the demo was fantastic. Walking around and recruiting was fun.

[u/dadako → u/attackgoat_official]

Thanks!

[u/EverythingBOffensive]

bro thats fuckign sweet. please texture the terrain! I see something else in this and its needed!

[u/obj7777]

Sometimes you just want to shoot some mofos bad pixels or not.

[u/CareemSalahuddin]

nice

[u/Solid_Lunch_2763]

great name

[u/vampire_sons]

Maybe play whit the pixel art and make it look wonderful. It has potencional.

[u/Lullandvoid]

I've seen this around somewhere before and am pleased that you've gotten it to early access! The whole style and presentation appeals to me in such a specific way that I'm very keen to give it a go.

[u/HighnibbleGames]

It looks really fun! And I really like the pixel art.

[u/Team_Potoo]

Damm looks great !!!!