Slapstick

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Download: Slapstick.nes Emulation via JSNES

Start: Return

P1 Move: WASD

P1 Use Prank: G

P2 Move: 🡨🡩🡪🡫

P2 Use Prank: L

Instructions

As your final task to graduate from clown school, you must make the head clown laugh. You know your craft. You can do this! The pranks you find scattered around will help.

About

This was an entry to the 2024 Global Game Jam for the theme "Make Me Laugh". My fifth NES game for the GGJ. This year I was able to rope another soul into NESDev-ing! He really seemed to enjoy it too. :)

You can check out the GGJ page to see more, or check out the GitHub page to see the code.

ROM Map

Here's a fun visualization I like. This is all the data in the ROM file interpreted as the NES's native graphics format. Each pixel represents 2 bits, and is arranged into tiles. It's fun to "see" the whole thing, and how little there really is. You can kind of see where the various data segments are, and even see a bit of the graphics even when they are compressed.