This site has a lot of e-reader info including many Nintendo Power scans. gbasp.ru/ereader-en.h... This page of the Game & Watch games is a nice peak at what could have been.

Pixel Pup's e-Reader feature is just a little bonus. But I think it will be pretty fun. #screenshotsaturday #gba

Well, Pixel Pup isn't going to make it for July :( But, I'm confident we'll make August. The game is entirely done, except it turns out music on the #GBA is challenging. We're also adding in one last feature. It just doesn't seem right for a RetroDotCards release to not use the e-Reader! #indiedev

There are now two Smaghettis, the original Smaghetti is still at smaghetti.mattgreer.dev You can move levels between them by clicking the ... in the upper left, select "Export level to file", then "Load level from file" at the other Smaghetti.

Uh oh, I can't unsee it now.

Two player Pixel Pup works great on the MiSTer two player GBA core.

Happy that @roninopf.bsky.social has joined the Pixel Pup team to provide some great tracks to listen to while you solve those nonograms. The music is still a WIP and this video is a mock up of real gameplay with still-in-progress music, but it gives an idea of where it's headed. So cool!

Pixel Pup has 10 mini Franny stamps hidden throughout. Can you find them all?

Here is a very simple gba tile viewer. For example, these tiles are from Advance Wars www.retrodotcards.com/tools/tile-v...

The Atari 800 has dual cartridge slots but as far as I know no software ever took advantage.

Here's some quick mock ups of what I'm aiming for with my next GBA/e-Reader game. Kind of what you'd get if Advance Wars, Fire Emblem and Magic the Gathering were thrown into a blender. Super ambitious, can I pull it off? Eh, probably not. But I will try my hardest :)

Show me a cool physical game.

Y'all were right. I'm not happy that it doesn't line up with the other numbers, but this is probably least worst option. Only about 1% of puzzles even have a 20, so not a huge deal.

I'll experiment more. But I am a lil worried it will be interpreted as a 2 hint then a 0 hint. Sure that makes no sense, but sometimes we're running on auto pilot.

Challenge, draw the number "20" in a 5x5 space with a single color. Is there a better solution?

A little change to the win dialog. It shows the puzzles in full color, but also in their original solved b&w version. Before I felt the colored in puzzle was too much of a jump for some puzzles, "wait, that's what I just solved?". I like how well this solves that issue. #gba #screenshotsaturday

Some uh, unintended creepy vibes...

When you add a backlit screen to your GBA.

The Pixel Pup beta test has begun! We are doing a small, private beta test. At this point we are still very much on track to release the game in late July.

We commissioned Jackson Pollock to design some puzzles for us.

Every once in a while, the random puzzles form a neat little abstract image. Not often, but it's cool when it happens.

Are you decent -- but not amazing -- at nonograms, like I am? Then crank the clock setting to 99 minutes for these big puzzles. And yeah, it was me playing these big puzzles that made me realize I'm gonna need more time :) The clock can be set to 30, 60, 45 or 99 minutes as you please.

Ah game dev

Pixel Pup will ship with 3,788 random puzzles. Including extra large 20x15 puzzles.

Someone pointed out to me this interesting coincidence. This other song is very similar to the bgm in Bomb Hunter. It's even GBA themed. The Bomb Hunter song was made by Nintendo, it's a song that is on the e-Reader itself, the game asks the e-Reader to play it (song id 129).

Two player mode is now complete minus bugs and a lil polish. I think this will be pretty fun. #gba #indiedev #nonograms

My favorite comment on the video :)

Weeeeeee!

Honey, @objetdiscret.itch.io shrunk the dog

sploosh!