Super City Mayor

Download: super-city-mayor.nes Emulation via JSNES

Instructions

Your town is falling apart, and your approval ratings will go with them. If you want something done right, then you'd better do it yourself! Run around and fix up all the buildings.

About

This was an entry to the 2020 Global Game Jam for the theme "Repair". My third NES game for the GGJ. I found a couple other local NES devs and invited them to the event. That was pretty neat to work with them in person, though having a larger team maybe slowed us down a bit. (Mythical Man Month perhaps?) It did end up being one of the better looking GGJ/NES games I worked on, but the gameplay never quite came together. Oh well, that's how game jams go. :)

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.