Micro Mages
Micro Mages is a platform game for the Nintendo Entertainment System that was published on April 30, 2019 by Morphcat Games. The game raised over €150,000 on Kickstarter. The game was published as a physical cartridge for the NES, and later as a digital download, bundled with an emulator, on Steam and Itch.io.
Micro Mages
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- 2019
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- English
- Genre
- platformer
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Micro Mages is a platform game for the Nintendo Entertainment System that was published on April 30, 2019 by Morphcat Games. The game raised over €150,000 on Kickstarter. The game was published as a physical cartridge for the NES, and later as a digital download, bundled with an emulator, on Steam and Itch.io.
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• Title — Micro Mages • Developer — Morphcat Games • Publisher — Morphcat Games • Platforms — Nintendo Entertainment System • Released — April 30, 2019 • Genre — Platform • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Designer — * Julius Riecke • Nicolas Bétoux • Programmer — Julius Riecke • Artist — Nicolas Bétoux • Composer — Julius Riecke
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The game was developed to fit within 40 kilobytes, the size that all games published when the NES was released, such as Super Mario Bros., had to fit into (later development techniques allowed larger games, such as Super Mario Bros. 3). The game was written in 6502 assembly language. 8 kilobytes of cartridge space was reserved for graphics, while the remaining 32 kilobytes were used for game code. Graphics were reused across levels and animations to save space. Player characters were deliberately scaled down in order to avoid sprite overflow. The game was written with the goal of creating an expansive multi-player game with the same limitations that the first NES developers experienced.
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The circumstances in which Micro Mages stands. Issued for Nintendo Entertainment System. Recorded as homebrew video game. Issued for Microsoft Windows. Developed by Morphcat Games.
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- 1.Micro Mages Press Kit. Morphcat Games. November 6, 2020.
- 2.Herkewitz, William. Cracking the Chip: How Hacking the NES Made It Even Better. Popular Mechanics. May 3, 2020.
- 3.Winkie, Luke. The NES console was discontinued in 1995. These developers are still making games for it. The Washington Post. November 28, 2019.
- 4.Kidwell, Emma. Optimization techniques for developing new NES games in the modern age. Gamesutra. Informa PLC. November 15, 2018.
- 5.Morphcat Games. How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes. September 5, 2018.
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