Tag: retro game development

A step-by-step guide to building new games for the TI-99/4A - understand the hardware, pick tools, design within strict limits, and ship a tiny, glorious cartridge of nostalgia.

How do you make a brand-new game for a 40-year-old platform without resorting to nostalgia karaoke? This guide walks developers through blending MSX-era constraints with modern mechanics and storytelling-practical workflows, technical budgets, UX trade-offs, and concrete design recipes that actually ship.