Introduction
Hello everybody, Happy Black History Month. Although it's late in the month, I wanted to write about a game that was developed by a person of color. And by that, I mean a game that I developed myself. Over the past few weeks, I've been working on a simple arcade-style indie game called Mega's Nuclear Waste Dump, a puzzler inspired by Uncle Henry's Nuclear Waste Dump for the 8-bit Atari line of computers.
Since this is a game I made myself, this post will not be a traditional game overview like my other blog posts. It will also obviously be missing things like an additional media section, developer interviews, character descriptions, or anything of that nature. That said, what this post will be is an explanation of the game's mechanics, the tools I used to program it, the assets used, my inspirations, and my personal thoughts. So sit back and get comfy as I take you to the waste dump!
