The life of Cirkat

Ludum Dare 44 - Your life is currency
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Game : The Life of Cirkat

Team size : 1

Platform : NES (original NES from 1983/1985, using emulators for the Jam)

Language : 6502 ASM & C

Personal challenge : First time trying to program a game on NES

You will need a NES emulator to run this game, any good NES emulator should work. If you need one, http://www.fceux.com was the main emulator I used to develop the game.

Libraries used :
- neslib : NES hardware-dependent functions by Shiru (https://shiru.untergrund.net)
- famitone2 : music and SFX player (used to playback SFX)

Tools used :
- NES Screen Tool 2.4 (tile editor and screen editor)
- FamiTracker (NES SFX editor)
- Visual Studio Code
- CC65 & make
- FCEUX (NES emulator and debugger)

References used :
- https://wiki.nesdev.com : Great source of information on NES hardware and programming
- https://cc65.github.io/doc/
- http://anton.maurovic.com/posts/nintendo-nes-gamedev-part-1-setting-up/
- https://shiru.untergrund.net/articles/programming_nes_games_in_c.htm
- https://shiru.untergrund.net/code.shtml
- https://shiru.untergrund.net/software.shtml
- https://github.com/jmk/cc65-nes-examples
- http://www.famitracker.com/
- http://www.fceux.com

Play the game via JS NES Emulator (in-browser) :
http://ld44.weirdfox.com/run/NesTest