In 2016 I had tepples, darryl.revok, and FL4SHK over for a day, and there was pizza, the debut of Quadruple Action Blaster Guys, some other Four Score games, and some other general video gaming. I kinda want to do that again, but with more people if there's interest? I've noticed there's at least several other nesdev people in the midwest US.
It'd probably be during a weekend in the summer, and in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I can serve
homemade pizzas or get Little Caesars or something.
Activity plans/ideas:
- Nova the Squirrel (hopefully) completed and playable
- play homebrew games and show off yours
- Four Score games
- Bomberman (II, Mega, Party Edition, 64)
- losing to me in Pokémon Puzzle League
- four player Duck Game
- anything else that sounds fun, especially retro-gaming related
"Guaranteed" attendance is FL4SHK (whose availability will determine when it can be) and tepples (who I can drag over from next door). Anyone else interested?
edit: To make it clear, this is a non-alcohol and non-smoking event. Be sober.
Homebrew that will appear at this year's con:
- Haunted: Halloween '85
- Haunted: Halloween '86 (The Curse of Possum Hollow)
- Lizard
- Eskimo Bob
- All four volumes of Action 53
Homebrew that will not appear:
This year, due to a slight change in living arrangements, we may have two rooms available.
Sounds like a lot of fun! I'd like to try to make it but we'll see what happens.
I can't make any promises, but I'd really like to come and I'll do what I can to make it over there. The sooner there's a set date the better, to avoid potential scheduling conflicts. I can bring my collection of homebrew oddities and prototypes. Sounds like fun. I can chip in some money for food and stuff.
Memblers wrote:
The sooner there's a set date the better, to avoid potential scheduling conflicts.
Got a favorite Saturday in June you'd prefer? I feel like Saturday's probably the best weekend day since people are likely to be free the entire day, but aside from that I don't think either FL4SHK or I have any reason to prefer any over any other.
Since June is in a little over a month, we really should pick a definite Saturday for this.
Unless something comes up, the date for NovaCon is June 16th!
Please send me a PM if you intend to come, and I can give you the address, and know how many pizzas to get ingredients for.
Usually work Saturdays. Count me in as a maybe. Can bring over prototypes and oddities too. May bring over guitar and laptop. Maybe we can have NerdTracker and FamiTracker jam sessions.
Would be cool if we can talk kev and his manfriend in hanging out too.
B00daW wrote:
Usually work Saturdays. Count me in as a maybe. Can bring over prototypes and oddities too. May bring over guitar and laptop. Maybe we can have NerdTracker and FamiTracker jam sessions.
Would be cool if we can talk kev and his manfriend in hanging out too.
I think there actually will be a few people who are into trackers there. I think Memblers was gonna try and talk kev into going too.
That's about 8 people total so far (and presumably 6 cars)? I
think there's room for parking, both around my house and in a parking lot near the house.
I'm planing to take public transportation there.
I can get to the location as far as Waterloo Indiana, but I can't find a route to the rest of the way except by Uber.
If anyone knows of some other public transportation option (or is willing to drive me there themselves) reply or PM me. Thanks
JRoatch wrote:
If anyone knows of some other public transportation option (or is willing to drive me there themselves) reply or PM me. Thanks
I think almost everyone that's not already in Fort Wayne is driving from south up to here, which would make it on the way rather than a 1 hour round trip from here. I'll poke some people.
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It looks like attendance is gonna be about 6 or 7? I don't think there's any real start or stop time since unlike a real convention there aren't any scheduled events, just really more of a "let's do whatever sounds fun"; FL4SHK is staying the night before so he, Tepples, and I will already be there no matter when you arrive. I would probably target noon or 1 PM though, or just the afternoon in general. If anyone needs the address still they can PM me since I don't feel comfortable putting it out in public record anywhere.
Reminder that this isn't a place to drink or smoke, though I guess if you need to smoke you can do it outside away from the house.
NovaCon turned out to be great and a bunch of people showed up (I think there were 8 people total at the peak?)
A summary:
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Homemade pizzas - They were a hit! Memblers also brought chips and dip -
Nova the Squirrel (hopefully) completed and playable - A few people played up to level 2-4, passing the controller around -
play homebrew games and show off yours - Tepples got to show off tons of his projects, and people played Lizard, Haunted, the demo for Nebs & Debs, and Memblers brought a big box of homebrew games and I tried Twin Dragons - Four Score games - QABG was not played, though it was mentioned
- Bomberman (II, Mega, Party Edition, 64) - no Bomberman was played
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losing to me in Pokémon Puzzle League -
four player Duck Game - Two player, and Ultimate Chicken Horse too -
anything else that sounds fun, especially retro-gaming related - Wyatt brought Custom Robo for Nintendo 64 and his Famicom
I'd love to do this again sometime.
Wow, there was a NESdev event? Too bad all the epic events take place in America while I'm in Croatia. Did you make any recordings/pictures of the event while you were there? I'd love to see.
8bitMicroGuy wrote:
Did you make any recordings/pictures of the event while you were there? I'd love to see.
I did take a few, though I'd want to get permission of the people that were in them before I post them because I didn't really ask when I took them, and most of them are not particularly good photos. There are a few without a random leg in the corner that I'd like to post though.
Here's some
Lizard. I think the idea was to have a race, but the big screen was running the official release and the CRT was running a beta so it probably wouldn't have been super fair to race different versions.
I see. Please send me a private message when you get the permission or just post the pictures here.
Wow, Double-Lizarding it.
Next time you do it I hope I have a car or some means to make the trip, though I'm not sure it'll ever be within reach due to the distance.
I can promise that my next NES game will be 2 player though.
Will there be one in 2019?
tepples wrote:
Will there be one in 2019?
I'd be up for it if other people are; probably would learn from bad decisions the first time and give out my number to attending people directly instead of putting it on the front of the house on a post-it note.
We'd be able to meet up to play Micro Mages!!! And Super Homebrew War!
NovaSquirrel wrote:
tepples wrote:
Will there be one in 2019?
I'd be up for it if other people are; probably would learn from bad decisions the first time and give out my number to attending people directly instead of putting it on the front of the house on a post-it note.
We'd be able to meet up to play Micro Mages!!! And Super Homebrew War!
Too bad you guys are all in Murryca and I'm here in Croatia in Europe... :'(
But I'd definitely be willing to do a Netplay and a Let's Play with you guys on those games. You could be playing as the first 3 characters in Super Homebrew War and I'd be the 4th playing as my own character if I even manage to force myself to make at least a simplest NES game with my childhood ROM hack character Ćiko. Waddya think?
Might attend if another one of these is hosted.
Wouldn't you think this is worth higher advertising and making it more official?? This can be probably a big deal to meet more people from a cameral place like nesdev, probably worth renting a building during that time and collecting entrance fees from people to reimburse for the costs. This would be hard for me to attend as I'm from Poland, Europe so the best situation for me would be going to USA one day and attending the convention in the meantime as one of the plans of the trip. Anyway good luck!!
MaarioS wrote:
Wouldn't you think this is worth higher advertising and making it more official?? This can be probably a big deal to meet more people from a cameral place like nesdev, probably worth renting a building during that time and collecting entrance fees from people to reimburse for the costs. This would be hard for me to attend as I'm from Poland, Europe so the best situation for me would be going to USA one day and attending the convention in the meantime as one of the plans of the trip. Anyway good luck!!
I'm pretty sure this is just more of a "hey, who wants to come hang out at my house?" sort of thing than an actual convention.
Yeah even if the entirety of nesdev got together we wouldn't fill a room
I found out recently that public libraries have bookable rooms for really cheap (sometimes free). Often they come with projector screens and other amenities. Can't host anything loud or disruptive there though.
gauauu wrote:
I'm pretty sure this is just more of a "hey, who wants to come hang out at my house?" sort of thing than an actual convention.
Yeah basically! Referring to it as a convention is really more of a joke, as if a dinky little meeting at my house was in any way comparable to big things with thousands of people.
pubby wrote:
Can't host anything loud or disruptive there though.
2018 was pretty loud and disruptive! Having it at my house also meant I could bake pizzas for people, though I could just buy food or something instead, and/or other people could pitch in there. I actually have a job and a programmer salary now so I could probably put more into this sort of thing.
I still wouldn't mind doing another one of these if we pick a date, though it's going to have to be a Saturday or Sunday of course.
Hello.
Just posting to say hello I found this website sorta through retronauts and Jeremy Parish....
I guess with the video game community splintering so much I thought it wise to take a flyer on the retro thing...
That said I still support the main line of video games continuing on (in 2019 etc)
But I think outside of the legal issues which are clearing up certainly nothing wrong I think being here talking about these things
I think the future can be right er bright for origianal NES hardware interest/development etc.
For me my interest is strictly perhaps one day getting an original NES of some kind... and then perhaps some games of some kind
and playing those mroe r or less for the first time to my knowledge...
I started playing games just after the NES's original kind of wave which continued until 1990 something I'm fairly sure and
am thus unfamiliar witht he whole situation basically and the kinds of games it had.
Ok that's all I got.
How about I just pick a random weekend in July and set that as a date? If anyone wants to meet up again this year, that is.
I haven't had anyone else suggest a day so far and I think this is stalled on that. July 6th, 13th, 20th or 27th work for anyone?
NovaSquirrel wrote:
I haven't had anyone else suggest a day so far and I think this is stalled on that. July 6th, 13th, 20th or 27th work for anyone?
20th or 27th are the ones that work for me.
Might as well go with the earliest and do July 20th then