Indie Spotlight: Piko Interactive

The Super Famicom/Super Nintendo gaming world is alive with homebrew indie development! Well, that's kind of a stretch... the retro scene for actual games is still far more into the 8-bit sector for whatever reason and apparently developing for the SNES is a lot more complicated than it might appear to be. Certainly hard to tell with all those awesome level editors for popular games out there (which I'll make up in another article).

But one group is thumbing its nose to programming hurdles and taking up the challenge of making games from the ground up for the 16-bit wonder. Obviously the name of that group is Piko Interactive, as you may have gathered from the blog title. Piko's an interesting company that also has its hands in developing for the Gameboy Advance and providing empty SNES game shells for sale.

Their catalog of games include:

* Super Noah's Ark 3D
* Super 4-in-1 Multicart
* AstroHawk
* Mr. Bloppy Saves the World
* Creepy Bird
* Apocalypse II
* UWOL - The Quest For Money
* Mazezam Challenge
* Super Thor Quest
* RockFall

I'll be honest that the games themselves don't look that impressive yet, but that's the elitist in me talking. Go give them a look anyways! https://www.pikointeractive.com.