Homebrew Games Summer Showcase 2024 - Celebrating 120 Titles Across 15 Platforms

I can get behind this, for sure.

Once again, i'm happy to see the Sega Master System getting some love.

Wow that’s a lot of games. I’ve played some of these, some are good, some are really forgettable.

The more we move forward, the more we want to stay the same. Some of these are really crazy good but like the old times there are a few stinkers in there too.

The commitment of these people is insane. Just looking through those games makes me nostalgic for an era of gaming I only barely caught the tail end of. We get plenty of new retro games these days, but they rarely capture the exact feeling of games from that time like so many of these do.

This is exactly the kind of showcase that helps me as info on homebrew is so scattered.

@Anachronism That's cause the one we play on modern systems nowadays are just retro inspired. They aren't necessarily limit by the same restriction as these were on but I wouldn't call these ones impressive either as these could had been so much better. Instead they choose to restrict themselves like the retro ones in an era where such restriction is unnecessary. It's like pretending to live in the past when you are actually living in a utopia future or you prefer to continue to upgrade your straw house when you could had turn that upgraded straw house into a nice mansion at any time.

Interestingly I just found out about the gba Chips Challenge port a few days ago, and was wondering why it wasn't for sale yet. No rom available though, just cartridge.

@Serpenterror I don't know, I'm a fan of old folk music on traditional instruments, paper books, hand-crafted trinkets, building and warming myself by a fire, and plenty of other activities, experiences, and tools that aren't the newest, most cutting edge way of doing things. I think the fact that this many people go through the trouble of making games for these defunct platforms is evidence enough that there's a certain appeal in doing things the old fashioned way, even for video games.

did not expect to see the saturn on this list!

I've managed to contribute two games this time.
I love that the homebrew scene is so active that you can make whole showcase with them. I almost wished that some games would even get more time to shine.

Loving this!!! Nice to have some retro love

This is awesome, I'm super excited for Azrael!

@quinnyboy58 That's a big motivation for the show. It is really hard to find homebrew games, especially across all platforms.

The release of Virtual Boy library on a new working emulator for 3DS that plays them in 3D and allows changing color from red to anything on the spectrum, is the biggest breakthrough in retro homebrew for the last 2 decades imo.

I love that this exists. At the same time, these genre labels are...strange. Herakles 32 appears to be a Wild Guns-style shooter (cursor shooter?) but is described as "Action (Mario)". Jester is a blatant Pac-Man ripoff (gross) but is listed in the same way. Malasombra is a side scroller but is listed as "Adventure (Zelda)." I guess in terms of Zelda 2, but that's the least Zelda of the Zeldas, so no.

Discrete Orange seems the most interesting one at 11:50. Is it a turn-based platformer? Whatever it is, "Puzzle (Tetris)" it ain't.

There's an obtuse accuracy in comparing any puzzle game to Tetris, but (1) the homebrew target audience is not so gaming unsophisticated as to find a mere 10 genre possibilities helpful and (2) action games would still not all be Mario-likes or whatever, even with that level of obtuseness.