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Nova Storm

@NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz

I'm a hobbyist game developer who mostly focuses on old Nintendo consoles, but I've done projects on PC too.

I'm a furry and I like to make cute characters and also make games about them! Check out my Toyhouse to see my characters: https://toyhou.se/NovaSquirrel

I'd like to meet other people who like to do lighthearted, story-driven roleplay.

I post NSFW sometimes but I tag it, so please be 18+ if you follow.

Feel free to reach out if you have common interests and wanna be friends!

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Joined October 01, 2018

Website:

https://novasquirrel.com/

GitHub:

https://github.com/NovaSquirrel

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Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz · 2d ago

Here's some Care Bear styled art I just got of my character Rosy Sky, by https://creaturelingart.carrd.co/

The artist gave multiple very good sketch ideas when we were trying to figure out a commission initially and I ended up coming back to get another one of them finished up.

#furry #furryart #carebears

Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz · 6d ago

My house's power went out last night for an hour, and I was like "I guess I'll get my Switch out and finally get around to trying more Virtual Boy games" and maybe that was a bad idea because some of them are kind of eerie. I did have a good time with Dragon Hopper though, which is just cute instead of vaguely eerie sci-fi vibes.

Then the power came back on and everything looked a lot more cyan than usual while my eyes adjusted. Maybe I should play with it set to grayscale instead.

Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz · Aug 08, 2026

Tried to compile my favorite nonogram game (Drymouth for Game Boy Color) so I could try tweaking some mechanics, but it turns out that 26 year old code targeting a 27 year old SDK does not necessarily work well with modern operating systems.

I have been trying to make it work in a Windows XP virtual machine but there's some errors I haven't resolved yet. I also tried making it work with newer versions of GBDK but there's been a lot of breaking changes since then.

Maybe at a certain point it's easiest to just try to romhack it. There's also the option of just making my own game that plays how I want (since I don't think anyone else is going to do it), and uhhh maybe after I complete game dev projects I already have.

Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz · Aug 05, 2026

I miss BYOND (from when it was full of chat/sandbox stuff and fan games, instead of everyone just playing one game) even though I already cloned and improved my favorite game from it

Having it be really easy for people to make 2D virtual worlds and having that be a popular thing a lot of people did was really cool

Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz · Aug 02, 2026

Replying to @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz

One last Art Fight attack for this year, https://artfight.net/attack/18613710.vivie-64x64 for @VAdaPEGA@chitter.xyz Wanted to thank Vivie for a really lovely picture of Sherbet and her buddies. 64x64 feels like a good size for a good amount of detail but still keeping the picture manageable. #furryart #artfight

Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz · Jul 31, 2026

Replying to @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz

I also drew these two. Might do one last one but we'll see how things go. https://artfight.net/attack/17759539.pixel-fecto-asmara for https://www.tumblr.com/senseikinder https://artfight.net/attack/18317297.pixel-butter-milk for https://www.tumblr.com/meejiry #artfight #pixelart

Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz · Jul 31, 2026

Here's my first four #artfight attacks I did this year. Didn't so as many as I was hoping to but I did get at least some art done and I'm happy about that. https://artfight.net/attack/15176895.plush-bunny for https://www.furaffinity.net/user/Spottedheart https://artfight.net/attack/15201256.celeste-kitty for https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pn3flwomophzt7jtndpzd5j6 https://artfight.net/attack/16520734.lohlite-under-the-night-sky for https://lohlite.carrd.co/ https://artfight.net/attack/17331280.mimiga-with-bubbline for @teochronico@denden.world #pixelart #furry #furryart

Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz · Jul 13, 2026

Anyone know of any active groups that play Minecraft on creative mode? Or that play Pokopia? I've been wanting to make buildings alongside other people but I've had a hard time finding a place to do that that isn't dead.

Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @hadley@plush.city

@hadley@plush.city @Sylvhem@eldritch.cafe @fionafokus@mystical.garden with Message Archive Management turned on, I haven't had problems synchronizing history between multiple devices. I don't think that's a problem anymore.

Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz · Apr 23, 2026

I made some SNES test ROMs that let you explore the offset-per-tile feature and input values to see how it changes https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=26590

I also made a pull request for the new community Mesen fork with my fixes and updated https://snes.nesdev.org/wiki/Offset-per-tile with the things I saw and confirmed.

Surprisingly, at least for certain test values, this is something where the current snes9x matches hardware but Ares/bsnes doesn't. The behavior also contradicts how the official SNES development manual describes offset-per-tile.

Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz · Apr 03, 2026

I took the Super Game Boy code I made for Petal Crash GBC and made a code example that shows off booting custom SNES code and then having the Game Boy side send files to the SNES as needed.

Code and ROM (under "releases"): https://code.novasquirrel.com/Maffi/SuperGameBoyStorageServer
Art: https://opengameart.org/content/tiny-16-basic

The text at the top is the result of asking the Game Boy to calculate $AA + $BB and send the answer to the SNES, as an example of doing other tasks than just getting files.

#snesdev #gbdev #gamedev