Donut Dodo Kickstarter

Donut Dodo, A brand-new Nintendo 64 game on a cartridge is heading to Kickstarter.

From Pixel Games SARL-S, began as a modern arcade platformer inspired by the single-screen classics of the early 1980s. After its PC release, they wondered if it could run on real retro hardware, which led developer Sebastian Kostka back to the drawing board to built it up.

The game has now been rewritten in C to work on the Nintendo 64 using Libdragon, and they’re looking to make it into a physical cartridge release via Kickstarter that includes the cartridge, box and instruction manual. If they reach certain stretch goals, they’ll also include a sticker sheet, enamel pin, poster and soundtrack CD.

You can support it here: Kickstarter. It’ll be active through the rest of May 2026

The game plays like a lost arcade release from 1983, with five single-screen levels, a bonus stage, 16-colour visuals, and an original chiptune soundtrack by Sean Bialo. The N64 edition also adds new features including Marathon Mode, offline achievements, CRT-tuned presentation, cartridge save support, and Rumble Pak compatibility.

It’s an impressive gift box for a N64 homebrew project, but at the end of the day it is still a very simple game in the style of Black-box NES games. It’s not something particularly demanding on the N64 hardware, it feels more like it fits on a store shelf in 1991.

The base kickstarter is already funded by the time I’m writing this, so I will be giving it a look when it comes out which looks like it’ll be sometime this year before Christmas. Look forward to it then.