-- PlantBoy -- The goal of the game is to harvest crops, but for your crops to grow you need water! And planet-rabbit-land, there is no water! So you must kill rabbits, harvest their blood, and use it to water your crops!
You will need either a Gameboy emulator, or a flash cart to play this, this is a *REAL* Gameboy DMG game!
-- Controls -- D-Pad - Move A - Shoot B - Water Crops
-- More details -- PlantBoy was a challenge, the goal was never to win, or even do well! I set out in the hopes of creating a simple, functioning *real* Gameboy game, written fully in z80 assembly in 48 hours.
Having about only a weeks experience in z80 assembly, and only little knowledge of assembly in general this was a big challenge. I'm happy with how far I got though, I plan to refine the code a little in the next few days.
Oh, and if anyone actually does play this on a physical Gameboy, and not an emulator, please record a video of it and show me! I've only been able to test this on emulators myself.
-*NOTICE*- If you don't want to download an emulator, you can download the .gb file and play it on this website (It's a Gameboy emulator in flash!)
Awesome achievement! I imagine programming in that format couldn't be easy! I had to emulate it of course, but it would have been neat to try it on an actual GB!
Wow! Very cool to see a game boy game. It plays well, but it doesn't seem to get harder as it goes. I'm a little worried about why the plant needs to be watered with blood D:
This is a gameboy game. I was able to run this on a GBA emulator. Very interesting them, a little short though, only one level, but I don't know the details of programming for Game Boy.
Overall, a pretty decent game. For your next game, maybe make it so that you can collect more than 1 resource at a time (can only hold one blood)!
I'm really impressed you pulled off making anything playable on this platform in the allotted time.
Points for sound just because there are some! I liked the little gun bounce as you walk around.
As for the game, I wasn't exactly sure what to do. I guess collect blood, then grow that center thing and get crops. I got up to 6 crop before figuring out that probably nothing else would happen.
Here's a video of it playing on a real Gameboy DMG, thanks to /u/gpremier on reddit.
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Whoa! You did this in raw assembly! That is crazy awesome! I only delve as far down to GBDK and C. So, that must have been quite an effort! Once my replacement Flash Cart arrives I'll be putting this on there pretty sharpish!
Look forward to any further developments on this in the future. Damn, ASM jamming, that's nuts, crazy cool nuts :D
There is no "web" version as it's a Gameboy rom file, you either need to run it through a emulator, a real Gameboy (using a flash cart), or you can use the online-flash based Gameboy emulator I have linked at the bottom of the description if you don't want to download one yourself. (You still need to download the rom file, to use it on the flash-emulator page)
Holy smokes are you ambitious. Assembly! Week's experience! How?
Even though this is super simple, it's really astounding you completed a gameboy game in 2 days. I enjoy the simple graphics, they look really clean and sleek, especially considering the gameboy restrictions. Good job.
Thanks! It was definitely a big challenge, I tried to learn as much as I could the 5 days leading up to LD, and in the end I still had to learn things mid-LD. Like the rabbits, I had no clue how I was going to implement an arbitrary number of rabbits in assembly, but I got it figured out in the end!
The full source is up on github, though some things I could have done much better (I should really refine the collision code into a few nice sub-routines, that I can use for any collision), and github seem's to have bugged the indenting a bit, I should fix that to..
@Weloxux lol, yeah..I didn't get time to properly implement a numbering system with tiles, if you get a score above like, 255. Then the score tile will start going through the rest of the game tiles :p
Not much to the gameplay, but I definitely respect the ambition and graft required to put something together in assembly for retro hardware! And it looks good as well, with cute little animations.
You are the champion of making people click to play the game (itch.io + emulator) :-) Looks fine, but I don't get how to press A and B in that emulator (I don't have a working gamepad)...
Woah, that's amazing. Porting a game to a Game Boy is really good! Though the gameplay itself it's quite simple and repetitive, what I really vote in this game is that you've a great achievement!
Wow, this is awesome! Congrats on completing this and submitting to the compo, that really is an achievement. I'm looking forward to perusing the source, too. I really like the graphics, this would have been a nice look even if it weren't restricted to the Gameboy hardware!
My only suggestion/critique is that the counter for "blood" makes it seem like you could collect more than one at a time, which was slightly confusing at first, but overall not a big deal at all.
Really, awesome job. Congratulations on the accomplishment!
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How did you find assembly programming on the Game Boy? I've looked into C assemblers for it but I've never been so brave.
Overall, a pretty decent game. For your next game, maybe make it so that you can collect more than 1 resource at a time (can only hold one blood)!
Points for sound just because there are some! I liked the little gun bounce as you walk around.
As for the game, I wasn't exactly sure what to do. I guess collect blood, then grow that center thing and get crops. I got up to 6 crop before figuring out that probably nothing else would happen.
Look forward to any further developments on this in the future. Damn, ASM jamming, that's nuts, crazy cool nuts :D
There is no "web" version as it's a Gameboy rom file, you either need to run it through a emulator, a real Gameboy (using a flash cart), or you can use the online-flash based Gameboy emulator I have linked at the bottom of the description if you don't want to download one yourself. (You still need to download the rom file, to use it on the flash-emulator page)
Even though this is super simple, it's really astounding you completed a gameboy game in 2 days. I enjoy the simple graphics, they look really clean and sleek, especially considering the gameboy restrictions. Good job.
The full source is up on github, though some things I could have done much better (I should really refine the collision code into a few nice sub-routines, that I can use for any collision), and github seem's to have bugged the indenting a bit, I should fix that to..
The game is also quite fun to play. Simple idea but effective, and I like the graphics! Well done!
4/5
My only suggestion/critique is that the counter for "blood" makes it seem like you could collect more than one at a time, which was slightly confusing at first, but overall not a big deal at all.
Really, awesome job. Congratulations on the accomplishment!