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Brendon Smith
AI first software engineer and creator
m{ai}geXR: AI + 3D for Desktop, iOS, iPadOS & Android
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Nova64 -> Fantasy Console for RetroArch, Godot, and the Web
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Your next Shopify storefront could start here. š
Iāve released a 100% open-source Next.js + Shopify template with a retro look and the essentials to start building: product collections, variant selection, a shopping cart, and responsive layouts.
Run it with the included demo catalog, make it your own, then connect your Shopify store for live commerce.
Built with Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. Free under the MIT license and ready to download and customize.
š Get the template on Contra (https://contra.com/products/GlQ38Sga-shopify-next-js-template)
If you like it, share the love! Iād love to see what you build.
#NextJS #Shopify #OpenSource #Ecommerce
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š¹ļø What happens when a software engineer misses the strange, experimental magic of the Nintendo 64 and original PlayStation era?
Apparently, he builds an entirely new game console.
Meet Nova64: a JavaScript-powered 3D fantasy console inspired by chunky polygons, mysterious cartridges, CRT glow, demoscene creativity, and the wonderfully weird software of the late ā90s.
I designed and engineered Nova64 as an open platform where developers can create a game cartridge in JavaScript and launch it instantlyāno actual plastic cartridge blowing required. š
Underneath the playful exterior is some seriously fun engineering:
š® A shared game-development API across Three.js, Babylon.js, and Godot
š§ JavaScript running natively through an embedded QuickJS engine
š¹ļø A custom RetroArch core for playing Nova64 cartridges alongside classic systems
š ļø A browser-based studio with Monaco, hot reloading, and developer tools
š 3D graphics, physics, particles, shaders, audio, controllers, voxel worlds, and WebXR
š¾ More than 70 playable demos and experimental cartridges
š„ļø A Mac OS 9-inspired desktopābecause modern software could use more personality
Nova64 isnāt an N64 emulator, and it isnāt pretending to be a historical machine. Itās a new creative platform built around a question I couldnāt resist exploring:
What if the next fantasy console used JavaScript cartridges?
This project brings together nearly everything I love building: games, graphics, creative tooling, native integration, web technology, nostalgic interfaces, and slightly unreasonable ideas that somehow become real products.
Iām not selling Nova64 as a Contra service. Iām sharing it because it demonstrates whatās possible when creative direction and deep engineering live in the same project.
If your idea sounds ambitious, interactive, technically unusualāor just a little bit weirdāIād probably love to hear about it. š
Explore Nova64: https://nova64.io
(https://nova64.io)View my services: https://contra.com/brendon_smith_axke294z/services?r=brendon_smith_axke294z
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