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How to Help

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Saved by Derek Lomas
on August 4, 2009 at 9:44:19 am
 

Here are the tools you need to get started!

NES/FC Developer Tools

 

 

As a volunteer for Playpower, there are many ways to help. 

 

Development Documentation

  • Collecting 8-bit 6502 Source Code
  • Collecting 8-bit 6502 Development Guides

 

Development Research

  • How to accept Keyboard input?
  • Memory map of registers
  • Target memory mapper

 

Development Tools

  • cc65 has a compiler library called rNES, but it is incomplete. 
  • nBASIC can supposedly create functional games, but this needs testing.

 

Cartridge Development

  • SD Card Integration

 

Game Frameworks

Choose your own Adventure Framework

  • Needs the ability to add images and sound
  • Needs a script to preprocess text for word wrap
  • Web-based text form for writing
  • Non-Latin font support

Quiz Game Framework

 

Game Design

  • Submit a Game Idea
  • Develop a Storyboard

 

Visual Design

  • Design an 8-bit character
  • Create a Character Set
  • Create an International Font

 

Education

  • Create teaching materials for developing 8-bit games
  • Teach a course
  • Get school credit for contributing to Playpower

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