A downloadable game

I wanted to explore making a game for the original Gameboy. This was a great learning experience under the time crunch of a game jam. I have not used GBDK or programmed in C before this. The goal was to make a simple Gameboy game for the 2021 GitHub Game Off. 

It's "playable". Scores and the thing that shows how much fuel you have don't work as I ran out of time. I chose this because I wanted to get some experience programming with limited hardware and explore porting one of my unrelated games to this system.

https://github.com/49646a6974/GB-BUGS.git

Controls:

1) Move with the d-pad.

2) Press "A" to create a fire. You can create three before you have to refuel. All fuel containers respawn after you obtain a gem.

Gist:

1) Avoid the bugs. Bugs can "bug out" and go through walls. This is in line with the theme of the jam.

2) Collect gems (fuel respawns on the map).

3) Use fire to kill bugs.

To do:

1) Have scores displayed at the bottom of the screen.

2) Have icons at the bottom that shows how much fuel is left.

*I will very likely not come back to this as I have other projects I am focused on. It was a good learning experience.

Download

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main.gb 32 kB

Install instructions

It's meant to be played on a Gameboy...so use an emulator such as BGB or the Sameboy core in Retroarch.

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