Stevedore - a new game in development by theNestruo

Source: MSXBlog

"Today is the village fest and Stevedore is going to go to the dance with the beautiful lighthouse keeper! So you are in a hurry to finish the job placing boxes in the warehouse and leave work as soon as possible. Suddenly, something cracks under your feet..."

This is the story behind Stevedore, a new game developed by theNestruo, the winner of the MSXBlog MSX-BASIC compo 2011 with Pérez de Mouse.

This project consists of a puzzle-platformer game style where we have to find a way to reach the next stage moving objects. The game will be released in an small ROM format and will feature optimized palette for MSX2 computers. Music is composed by Wonder. Release date expected by the end of this year or beginning of 2019.

Relevant link: theNestruo on Twitter

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Comments (22)

By ren

Paragon (1947)

21-08-2018, 19:54

Great, more promising WIP stuff! :D

Pérez the Mouse is cool! B-)

(And so is (the sadly abandoned/unfinished) World Rally btw ;))

By Giangiacomo Zaffini 2

Champion (300)

21-08-2018, 21:10

I like platform games. So I'm interested. Nice!

By Pippo

Hero (521)

21-08-2018, 21:11

I am sure it will be a success!

By Pencioner

Scribe (1609)

21-08-2018, 21:12

looks so yummy! mmmm....

By KdL

Paragon (1485)

22-08-2018, 10:24

like +1

By ren

Paragon (1947)

22-08-2018, 10:51

Btw: YT demo vid demanded(!)

By edoz

Prophet (2501)

22-08-2018, 11:53

Wow! Looks so cool! I'm always surprised what people can do with minimal colors and pixels.. the results are amazing in this game! To bad i'm not that well in graphics..

By theNestruo

Champion (429)

22-08-2018, 19:59

Thanks!

I'm not that good at graphics... Actually, the tileset of the first stages is heavily based on some old ZX Spectrum mock-ups (this and this) from Carnivius (used with permission).

The game was shown live at RetroEuskal 2018, but I'm afraid there isn't any video...

By snatchertas

Supporter (10)

23-08-2018, 08:41

In the screenshots #2, #3 and #4 there are 2 levels of grey color (plus white). This is raising some questions. Is this a mockup done on another system?

By theNestruo

Champion (429)

23-08-2018, 09:02

snatchertas wrote:

In the screenshots #2, #3 and #4 there are 2 levels of grey color (plus white). This is raising some questions. Is this a mockup done on another system?

Not mock-ups, but actual game screenshots taken in MSX2 (using the optimized palette).
Here is one of those screens in MSX1 :)

By snatchertas

Supporter (10)

24-08-2018, 08:47

Nooooooice!

By Code Witcher

Resident (43)

03-03-2019, 11:25

Where can we download the demo? And when is it going to be sold?

By Manuel

Ascended (19677)

21-08-2019, 11:10

Any news about the project?

By theNestruo

Champion (429)

21-08-2019, 17:00

The game is still under development, but almost finished!

By Manuel

Ascended (19677)

21-08-2019, 21:01

Cool, great to hear that! Any teaser videos available?

By theNestruo

Champion (429)

21-08-2019, 22:22

Actually, there is a gameplay video in this MSXBlog interview, at the 1:33 mark.
The version in the video is the RetroEuskal 2018 promo version. A few minor things have changed since.
The game was played live during the interview, so don't expect a "focused" gameplay (Konamito and I got distracted chatting :D).

By albs_br

Champion (499)

10-08-2020, 21:24

How is this development going? It looks like will be a great game.

By theNestruo

Champion (429)

10-08-2020, 22:12

Hi! Sorry about the lack of news.

Code is 100% done (I'm still tweaking it a little bit).
Level design (the most exhausting task) is also 100% done.
Music is at 85% mark. Wonder is composing (or, more precisely, he's trying to find time to compose) the last theme...
...and if the betatesters are able to playthrough the game, and no issues are found, it will be ready for release!

Meanwhile... Enjoy those superb MSXDev'20 entries!!!

By Briqunullus

Paladin (760)