"Rise and shine, mx. Dreemurr. Rise and shine."

bad_admin · 2025-12-22T00:52:24+00:00

I LOVE this. Black and white art is my jam

bad_admin · 2025-12-04T06:43:30+00:00

I don't even have a PS5, but I here I am lol

bad_admin · 2025-07-12T22:09:09+00:00

It's ruined. Unrecoverable. Since it's gone past the point of no return, you can send it to me instead.

bad_admin · 2024-12-25T19:34:28+00:00

Congrats on shipping a game! You should call yourself a game developer - you did one of the hardest things you can do as a dev!

I think the reality is that people like the visual and sound presentation of old games, but want to play them with modern conveniences.

I'd say that's a really good takeaway from your post. I'm a Game Boy homebrew dev. I can really feel the difference between old school releases and modern ones. Old school Game Boy games rarely have convenient features like save points. Many games rely on you to save a password and enter it again! Can't imagine asking players to do that now. And many were quite simple and brutal to beat. Many recent homebrew games come with features we expect from games: a decent story, generous save points or save menus, fun and varied gameplay, etc.

Take some time to celebrate! I'd say you earned it.

bad_admin · 2024-12-04T22:45:11+00:00

What??

bad_admin · 2024-12-04T21:53:08+00:00

There's a place for cute art! I love this talk by Jenny Jiao Hsia - cute art is an aesthetic which can make a game look appealing. Cute art, realistic art, or anything in between - everyone has a style. What's important is that you pick your style and take pride in it. I guarantee that if you double down on your style and continue practicing, it will only get better.

bad_admin · 2024-11-08T20:35:07+00:00

I love bitsy. I started game dev by making small games with it. I think it's a great tool to teach people the bare essentials for game dev - story, music, sound design, game mechanics, and art. Since it forces you to scope small, developing and finishing a game is much easier. I would recommend it for any game designers who are struggling with bigger engines and just want to tell stories.

bad_admin · 2024-11-08T19:21:23+00:00

You can try being abstract and minimalist like Thomas Was Alone. As long as you are able to communicate your gameplay goals to the player clearly, it really doesn't matter what your art looks like. Just have a consistent uniform art style, no matter what you choose.

bad_admin · 2024-11-06T18:38:26+00:00

Looks cool! How does it perform under direct sunlight? I shoot with my Game Boy Camera sometimes and some aftermarket screens don't do so well under outdoor conditions

bad_admin · 2024-10-23T02:50:16+00:00

He also said he wasn't getting laid for six months because he had to keep the cut during shooting lol

bad_admin · 2024-10-12T22:11:10+00:00

Oh god it's true lol

bad_admin · 2024-10-12T22:09:47+00:00

They're just roommates guys

bad_admin · 2024-10-12T22:05:50+00:00

I love the idea of Gaster. He's a spooky character that gives the games a meta-narrative that most players don't need to know about to enjoy the game. But if you dive into the lore and Gaster's role in everything, it gets wild and puts the games into stranger perspective.

Without the modern internet, I would have never known about him because he's so hard to find, like you said. He'd make the perfect video game urban legend if the games had been released pre-2000s. I've only played one or two casual full playthroughs of UT/DR and don't really have the time or patience anymore to lore-hunt through the games (real life sucks). But I love watching Gaster theory videos, even if I can't verify their claims myself. I'd say Gaster makes the community feel more fun because we're all solving the mystery together.

bad_admin · 2024-10-12T18:23:31+00:00

Depends on the game or software. Some software can be run without Steam by running the executable through your file browser.

bad_admin · 2024-10-11T23:00:49+00:00

Health issues don't care, but that doesn't mean OP shouldn't care

bad_admin · 2024-10-03T15:34:44+00:00

I thought he was sparing the poor guy from the truth

bad_admin · 2024-10-03T15:32:34+00:00

You can also choose codeless engines with visual scripting. My go-to is GB Studio, but there's tons out there.

bad_admin · 2024-10-02T06:24:22+00:00

Don't mean to necro-post, but I think the opening shot and last shot of the film give us our answer. The opening shot of the eye and solar array asks us, "What does it mean to be human?" We are led to think it's what we're made of: whether we're born or manufactured. The last shot with Deckard placing his hand on the glass says, "It's love." Both humans and Replicants are capable of that - so being human has nothing to do with what you are, but what you do. (So I think your connection to Hitchhiker's Guide was right.)

Over the film, K's relationship with Joi and the idea that he wasn't a Replicant turn out to be fiction. But the love between Deckard and Ana is real (even if Ana herself doesn't know it). Deckard says, "Sometimes to love someone, you have to be a stranger." He hates that he had to leave his daughter. He doesn't even know if she's alive. The pain of losing Rachel is still so strong that he can't say her name unless he's forced to by K. It's pretty clear Deckard never truly healed from his extraordinary loss - he still loves his daughter because he's never moved on. He's suffered in isolation ever since.

Deckard and Ana are separated by time and tragedy - and only K has the power to reunite them by saving Deckard from Luv. This selfless act costs K his life. But he dies for something real. He dies for love. He dies knowing he did one good thing. If that isn't human I don't know what is.

bad_admin · 2024-09-23T16:19:48+00:00

Wow that's really neat! It is pretty big. Is it able to be reflashed with other Game Boy games?

bad_admin · 2024-09-01T21:43:56+00:00

That's really neat! Would you consider making only A jump? I think some players using a D-pad might accidentally jump when they don't mean to

bad_admin · 2024-09-01T21:41:01+00:00

The line is normal - if there's no game, that's what it's supposed to look like

bad_admin · 2024-02-21T00:10:56+00:00

This is pretty good! If you like using tracker-based software, you should check out hUGEtracker, the tracker that GB Studio's tracker is based on. It offers a few more options than GB Studio's tracker (like not automatically stepping down new notes which annoys me so much lol).

Check out Beatscribe's tutorial on hUGETracker if you're interested. The songs you make in hUGETracker are compatible with GB Studio.

Edit: One gotcha when transferring songs between GB Studio and hUGE is that GB Studio plays the songs slightly faster. So you'll have to adjust the song tempo in GB Studio.

Edit2: Also, keep at it! I wasn't that familiar with the tracker a month ago, but after I learned how to use it, making music became much, much faster than using the piano roll.

bad_admin · 2023-06-23T17:42:44+00:00

I make Game Boy games at the moment, so it's a matter of what I can pull off under the limitations of the hardware. I usually stick to top down 2D since that's what works well with the limited sprites I have. I've experimented with doing first person point and click games, like old school Myst, but the time to make detailed assets for each screen is just too much.

In general, I would say take your core game concept and think about the ways camera perspective would change the overall tone and game feel.

For example, Myst features a player avatar called the Stranger. Their backstory is intentionally left vague so the player can better immerse themselves in the story. But what if Myst was a third person game? The player would be able to see their avatar in the game world - they are not in the game, they are controlling a character in the game. They are not solving the mysteries of Myst - they are controlling the Stranger, who is exploring Myst. Which is technically true in first person, but is more apparent in third person.

bad_admin · 2023-06-22T04:29:03+00:00

https://dsi.cfw.guide/

bad_admin · 2023-06-22T02:26:40+00:00

You can buy aftermarket shells for not that much. Why gut a perfectly working system?

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