A special shout out and “Thank you” to Tim at Rewind Gaming for the free t-shirt! I won his weekly Twitter trivia contest 2 weeks ago and this was my prize. Thanks, Tim!
About Rewind Gaming:
“We specialise in retro and vintage video games and consoles, for example Nintendo NES and SNES, Sony PS1, Sega Mega Drive, Master System and Dreamcast, and many others from the 70s, 80s and 90s.”
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If you’re an indie game developer you’re probably a pretty damn creative person. So why do you need inspiration? You need inspiration because ideas don’t exist in a vacuum. Whether you’re inspired by real-life or media, the style, content, and execution of your work must be inspired by something. Maybe you already have a good idea, but looking at what other people have done can help you make your idea better.
Retro Game Links
- Hardcore Gaming 101 – Hardcore Gaming provides a definitive look at many retro classics, forgotten treasures, and epic series.
- Racket Boy – A nice little site with some good lists to get you in the know on some retro classics.
- The Old Computer – I won’t get into a discussion about the legality of roms and emulators in your part of the world. I personally feel the best way to experience any game is on the original hardware, but that simply isn’t always possible. Roms and emulators are an import way to preserve the history of gaming.
- RogueBasin – Sometimes you want to recreate a forgotten treasure of a game. Well, apparently no one forgot about Rogue. Rogue is an early dungeon crawling game that has proved so popular it has spawned it’s own genre: the roguelike. This site details many of the intricacies in creating a roguelike game.
- Tetris Wiki – Tetris is one of those games that many developers want to cut their teeth on. Tetris Wiki will help you learn everything you ever wanted to know about Pong, Tetris. Yes, you too can know the differenct between the Akira rotation system and the DTET rotation system.
- Significant Bits – A nice little article about what made those old 2D platformer games so great.
- Atari Age – The Atari 2600 was one of the first systems to really bring the videogame into the home. Almost anything and everything Atari related can be found here.
- 20 Atari Games – A great look a Atari’s games and a bit of history.
- Retro Gamer – Retro Gamer is the only magazine I read and I read it cover to cover. It’s a British magazine so it costs an arm, two legs, and a first born child every month, but it’s worth every penny. They have two collected editions of the magazine available on CD-rom for an affordable price.
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