{"id":620,"date":"2025-05-18T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T05:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=620"},"modified":"2025-05-18T15:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T05:48:50","slug":"lets-make-a-retro-game-ep-1-getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Lets Make a Retro Game: Ep 1: Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is the 1st video in my new series\u00a0where I am going to work through the steps required to make a homebrew game for a retro 8-bit console or computer system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-74.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-621\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In each episode, I will work through various topics, such as tools, methods and design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this first episode, I:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Explain the underlying goal of the series.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Describe the game we will be developing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provide instructions on downloading and using a sprite editor, I am providing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The TI-99XX Sprite Editor can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?cat=52\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"52\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sample project file can be downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tony-cruise\/ElectricAdventuresArchive\/blob\/main\/LMARG\/MegaBlast.zip\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the first episode here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lets Make a Retro Game - Episode 1 - Getting Started\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ne0RCMB5-rw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 1st video in my new series\u00a0where I am going to work through the steps required to make a homebrew game for a retro 8-bit console or computer system. In each episode, I will work through various topics, such as tools, methods and design. In this first episode, I: The TI-99XX Sprite Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lets-make-a-retro-game"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}