OLOF NAESSÉN

After creating homebrew games for Windows, Olof is turning his attention to Nintendo hardware

Format: NES, SNES Previous game: Death Strike, Dazed In Space (Windows) Working on: Data Man (NES) />

How are you enjoying developing for the NES?

What tools do you use to create your games?

What inspired Data Man?

a NES game we could play together without competing but truly cooperating. We decided to target the smallest possible cartridge commonly used – 40KB of storage. How we came up with the idea that you defend the NES and its CPU itself from bugs I don’t really remember. It fitted the co-op game we wanted really well given that health is shared between players. Xeno Crisis by Bitmap Bureau was a big inspiration, not only in terms of gameplay but also the fact that it is a fantastic homebrew for the

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How does it look so slick and when can we expect a release?

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