West Text 64 Alpha
Haha, one of the biggest curveballs ever thrown in the Internet Arcade Blog history! Mostly because the history's only been two months. Behold, in its full glory, the West Text 64 Alpha!
Remember how in my last post, I said I was cooking up a game? Well, this most certainly is NOT it! Haha, double curveball! What this is is just a little bit of a for fun thing. West Text 64 is going to be a Nintendo 64 text adventure game set in the wild west. So don't worry if you were wanting a hellishly difficult platformer, that's still coming! I'm a little kooky sometimes, and I do weird things. And weird things includes making homebrew Nintendo 64 games.
Yes, homebrew. Not just replicating the Nintendo 64, this IS a true blue Nintendo 64 game, it runs on Nintendo 64 hardware, it's a ROM and everything. What's the motivation here? Well, you see, it all started this morning.
I decided to take a trip down memory lane and check out the Nintendo website circa 2000, back when everything was about the Nintendo 64. I've been studying the homebrew scene for the Nintendo 64 for months now, and I'm gonna stick my toe in with something simple. Just a little text game. No graphics or anything. Sure, it won't have all the shiny fun things that the Nintendo 64 can do, like 3D graphics, but it's good enough. Notice how going to the N64-era Nintendo website was enough to incite me to make a Nintendo 64 game. Well, that's me, Mr. Impulsive.
After all this reading, you probably want to try West Text 64 Alpha for yourself, don't you? Of course you do, why WOULDN'T you? Well, you can download it here, slap that baby into an emulator, or even onto an Everdrive, if that's your thing, and have fun with the solid 30 seconds of gameplay that I have done right now! Have fun!