Game Boy Studio - create your own games
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levi
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I've only been able to find footage of deadaus on youtube so far, and it looks to me a 2D RPG like Zelda-ish affair. I suspect at least one of the other headlines games is like that from the screenshot. If that's the sort of game you want to make then that's fair enough, but I wouldn't count this as a good studio to use if you wanted to make a shmup or a racing game.
λ the β-Redex Reducer
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That's a pretty cool concept but it's no good for learning about the hardware that you're developing for. And it seems like it's closed source and thus will result in lock-in.
levi
Still fresh, damnit!
The matching Github for this seems to be MIT-Licensed.
Edit: That doesn't stop lock-in happening, although the outcomes of that would be less costly in monetary terms. I'm not sure if matters all that much for games though, especially ones that run on resource constrained devices, so must pretty much be machine code.
Edit: That doesn't stop lock-in happening, although the outcomes of that would be less costly in monetary terms. I'm not sure if matters all that much for games though, especially ones that run on resource constrained devices, so must pretty much be machine code.
λ the β-Redex Reducer
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Cool, I did not know that it was open source. It still is not for me though, I like diving into the GameBoy line's hardware.
Thanks for the feedback.
GB being a platform I never looked at (used it as just a consumer), I thought it was nice to have a rapid development tool.
Toying around a bit it seems indeed very cRPG oriented (i.e. not flexible at all to make something else), and there's something funky with the overlay and collissions (does feel a bit off, I guess because GB rpg games, for example, daikatana, actually always adhered to walking in 8 pixels, so there was never the problem of 1 pixel-off collision). This means that you can not make narrow corridors with this and make the walking feel easy and natural.
Then again, this other game made with the engine shows that with a little imagination, you can make other type of games.
kidphoenx.itch.io
Oh, and I found GBStudio by playing this fantastic melancholic game (hits you deep in the heart):
And here is a nice little advice on how to handle NPC's (and I agree with them)
anv.itch.io
GB being a platform I never looked at (used it as just a consumer), I thought it was nice to have a rapid development tool.
Toying around a bit it seems indeed very cRPG oriented (i.e. not flexible at all to make something else), and there's something funky with the overlay and collissions (does feel a bit off, I guess because GB rpg games, for example, daikatana, actually always adhered to walking in 8 pixels, so there was never the problem of 1 pixel-off collision). This means that you can not make narrow corridors with this and make the walking feel easy and natural.
Then again, this other game made with the engine shows that with a little imagination, you can make other type of games.
Penalty Kick '91 [beta] by Kid Phoenix
Show off your penalty skills! Penalty Kick '91 is an epic penalty shoutout for soccer lovers.
kidphoenx.itch.io
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Oh, and I found GBStudio by playing this fantastic melancholic game (hits you deep in the heart):
And here is a nice little advice on how to handle NPC's (and I agree with them)
How to Make NPC's Feel Alive - The Year After by Hadrian Lin
Game Design / Storytelling Principle: How to make non-player characters feel alive Do not have non-player characters stand around, waiting for the player to interact with them. Have them move and purs...
anv.itch.io
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