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Nintendo was so impressed with that game they gave it the marketing of a 1st party published game that only other developers could dream about. Hudson must have loved that. The mist stages were pretty neat as far a graphical effects went. I'm no expert, but some sort of animated tiles I guess?

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It was sooo good! Yeah, the way it works is that they have a block of mist tiles loaded into the PPU, which are drawn as both background and foreground tiles. Then at different intervals, they rotate a column of pixels around to the right by 1px each. And that creates the most look.

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That's amazing. 😊

notes.chipx86.comFog Generation - ChipNotesThe area of Mist is covered in a fog effect, which to this day feels impressive for an NES game. The implementation of the effect is actually quite simple, and is composed of the following: 1. Multip…

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From that work, someone built an editor, and from that, new Faxanadu games are now being built (see bsky.app/profile/okim...). This has been like working on a complex, but very satisfying, puzzle book.

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The engine's well-designed, but I can tell it was rushed at the end. But it offers a lot. Bytecode scripts dictating enemy behavior. Scripts dictating interactions with NPCs and items. An advanced music engine. And things left out of the game. Including additional special effects for magic.