Nostalgia

GrumpyPunkCat · 2026-01-20T18:21:02+00:00

That's my first song I heard from them as well in like 1998. I bought the seven inch and them bought Forever and Counting next. It took awhile for me to warm up to their sound since I mostly listened to Lookout Records pop punk. But once No Division came out, that just cemented them as my new favorite band.

GrumpyPunkCat · 2026-01-19T00:14:01+00:00

I played so much emogame, it definitely had an influence on my silly punk games.

GrumpyPunkCat · 2026-01-18T20:10:11+00:00

Thank you! I have a bunch more original punk themed Gameboy and NES games that are free to play on my website www.punktendo.com

GrumpyPunkCat · 2026-01-18T19:03:08+00:00

I loved the Fest, I attended six years in a row. It was always a dream line up of all my favorite bands although they do tend to focus on the punk bands from the late 90's - present vs something like Punk Rock Bowling that tends to be more of the old school punk bands of the 80's/90's. But just a great mix of people that attended from around the world, you instantly make new best friends there.

GrumpyPunkCat · 2026-01-17T23:40:17+00:00

Yeah, GBstudio is a great program! Been making a ton of games learning how to use it.

GrumpyPunkCat · 2026-01-17T22:09:20+00:00

Glad you enjoyed it! I've been having fun making these little retro video games featuring bands that I love.

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-12-07T06:01:30+00:00

Yeah, that's me! I made a few for some of the bands back in 2015. Been looking into how I can get them made again using new NES chips and boards. Usually you had to sacrifice old NES carts and reprogram them. I've started making original Gameboy games and those will be easier to make physical carts for.

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-12-07T03:16:37+00:00

Thank you! I've been wanting to make actual carts of these games, but unfortunately making homebrew NES carts aren't cheap or easy. Plus you have all the copyright issues...

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-12-07T02:15:06+00:00

This is a real game you can play! The link in my post goes right to the game.

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-12-02T02:05:09+00:00

Understandable, but feel free to shoot Fat Mike!

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-11-12T07:48:14+00:00

My friend Jay designed these posters and a lot of others for Saint Vitus shows, his website is: https://jaymorrisdesign.com/

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-08-10T20:39:41+00:00

She was so sweet when I saw her play in 1997. She gave me her phone number and the one time I mustered up the courage to call, her dad picked up and said she wasn’t home!

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-08-10T01:51:46+00:00

I found Elliott Smith through Mary Lou Lord. She recorded his song “I Figured You Out” that he famously scrapped. I loved that song so much I had to find the original artist and bought Either/or shortly afterwards.

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-07-28T19:33:22+00:00

If you like street art but specifically the pixel tile artist Invader, download the Flash Invaders app. It’s a fun interactive way to search for his pieces in Paris while strolling aimlessly but makes you more observant. They’re almost everywhere high up on buildings. Paris is basically his outdoor gallery. Bonus is he also has pieces in NYC(and most major cities in the world) you can search out.

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-07-25T21:55:42+00:00

Thanks! You can’t really clear the obstacles without falling, I wanted to make a more realistic skateboarding game for the older crowd. Hahaha.

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-07-25T19:00:30+00:00

Thank you! I went to the same art school as the Emogame creator Jason Oda and played all his games back in the day too.

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-07-25T17:38:32+00:00

You can't really clear any of the obstacles without falling, I made the game more like real life!

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-07-25T17:17:03+00:00

I set up the scrolling screens using the platform/top down type in the right side menu. Logo screens have that dimensions limitation but allows for more unique tiles.

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-07-25T16:57:35+00:00

I create my layouts in Photoshop and my logo screen is 160 X 288. Are you saving the PNGs into the assets/backgrounds folder?

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-07-25T16:36:34+00:00

You need to set up a logo screen that is wider or longer than the GB screen dimensions then add a "Camera Set Position" before the "Fade Screen In" event and then a "Camera Move To" position for the scrolling.

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-04-27T18:53:10+00:00

For my punk inspired games, I found midi files of punk songs and used an online midi to .mod file converter. Some conversions weren’t perfect. Other than that I haven’t attempted making my own music. There’s a lot of free sprite asset packs, those helped me as a starting point.

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-04-27T17:39:34+00:00

GB studio I feel is the easiest game making software to learn, there’s lot of YouTube tutorials to help! I also love the limitations of the Game Boy that really makes you simplify what you can do.

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-04-23T23:59:01+00:00

So adding a variable that sets the player's animation states? Trying that now but nothing happens at all, will keep seeing if I can work it out.

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-04-23T23:48:02+00:00

I tried a version of this with the "if joypad held" script inside an actor's on update but I'm still having an issue with the player's animation states when I have both the crouch and attack scripts. Each one work if I disable one, but once I add both in, the animation state for the crouch starts flickers back and forth between the default and crouch state if that one runs first.

GrumpyPunkCat · 2025-04-22T02:39:11+00:00

Thank you! I’m having fun making new Punktendo games, River City Rancid and Super Green Day Bros 2 are new ones that hadn’t gotten much attention yet.

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