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Thanks for testing it, that makes me feel a lot better.

I've noticed that the SuperFX chip demo in the libSFX examples was great for booting the chip, but it does not include examples of drawing with the SFX chip or copying data from the chip to VRAM. I've created, I hope, an example of using the SuperFX in 4bpp 160 line mode that people can build from. ...

Hey everyone, Expect an official announcement soon. I'm still trying to work through how this will operate, rules, and what to name the dang thing. Let me know if you also have experience organizing this sort of thing and can lend a hand. Organizing conferences is one of my hobbies! https://devnexu...

Still don't think anything as technologically interesting as the bottom is going to be any common in the jam at all. There's probably only going to be 1 or 2 entries as technically contributing as that, if not more. Agreed, but if entries can get extra points (say 5%) in judging for contributing so...

Yeah, though what's the chance that we'll have any game entry get a good score on 'technical contribution'? I've never seen SNES homebrew games try to be anything more than what they are. SNES homebrew developers aren't demoscene coders, after all, they don't aim to impress. "Here's tic tac toe wit...

I believe the idea behind the open source requirement is to grow the technical knowledge base of the community. Thinking more I don't believe open sourcing should be a requirement because there are many ways a game can contribute the the community's technical base. Because I think that this contribu...

What if instead of "You have to start after the start date" we do instead "You can't have had entered your game in a jam before". A lot of people on this board have done great work over the years and it might be nice to have a celebration of that work.

Before we have a jam we should decide some things : Will there be money involved? This includes prizes, hosting the jam site, etc Will entries be ranked/judged / will there be prizes? What are the rules of the jam? What will the name of the jam be? Do we have rights for that name? Will the deadline ...

I'll make an attempt as well.

Maybe. The Zelda 3 Randomizer community has a multiworld mode that uses the USB port on the SD2SNES to let different games communicate with each other. Here's their setup guide with more information : https://docs.google.com/document/d/19FoqUkuyStMqhOq8uGiocskMo1KMjOW4nEeG81xrKoI/edit It isn't what ...

libSFX (https://github.com/Optiroc/libSFX) has several example projects which may help with getting your source layout started.

Wait, you're hacking Art of Fighter 2 to make it look more like the original game? That's pretty impressive. How did it do the sprite scaling? The fighters' sprite tiles are, unscaled, 16x16. The SNES updates their positions so they overlap slightly which makes the fighter smaller on screen. It is ...

What would we include in a festival? I help organize a developer conference in Atlanta, and have some experience in that area. What we do is publish a "call for papers" which is meant to solicit presenters who have content. Then we select some for the number of topics we wish to cover. During the pa...

From several master's level classes in online community management

Here's the syllabus :
https://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Amy.Bruck ... ing/oc/20/

Good ideas. They really make sense. I wonder if a pipeline model like this has been tried before for other communities... Oh there are whole books written on doing this. The "core" of it is that you have a team of people who are producing content for an audience and advertising to that audience. Th...