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Software produced for proprietary consoles by reverse engineers, hobbyists, and more. Often targeting retro & alternative devices.

See:

• NES Roms
• Game Boy Roms
• Commodore 64

My First Game Jam is an online jam focused on you creating your first game with tools you've always wanted to learn. It's for people of all skill levels to learn something new! Absolute beginners encouraged to join.

Pixel Art refers to the charming, simplistic, retro/renaissance style of very-low-resolution graphics, such as from the 1977-1995 Atari, GameBoy, & Super Nintendo (SNES) eras.

Also known as TTRPG, tabletop role-playing games are tabletop games when you play a character within a set of rules. Typically actions are determined by speech and checked for success via dice rolls.

A turn-based game mechanic is the opposite of a real-time game mechanic. In a Turn-By-Turn mechanic (synonym), each player has to wait for the other to have played, so that they can play, and so on. This way, each player has the time to think about their strategy. TBT games rely less on action than real-time games.