Manual Manny!

by ghost-in-the-toast

co-authored: @buggyspaghetti, @conduit, @skawly

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.79

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.84

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.18

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.16

Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.03

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.47

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.95

Description

All the best skaters in town can bust out a manual, why can't you? Your name is Manny, a dorky kid who just wants to be a RAD SKATER. Master your manual skills and become the BEST skater in the city!

"Manual Manny!" is the latest in Nintendo GAMEBOY skateboarding technology, keep Manny steady for as long as possible before you inevitably WIPE OUT! You can also move Manny around to collect all the letters of SKATE to get a RADICAL point bonus!

Controls:

Gameboy: Left D-pad or B button for left movement, and Right D-pad or A button for right movement.

Emulator: Map controls to your preference!

*IMPORTANT*
This game is a real deal Gameboy ROM! So using an emulator or Gameboy flash cart will be required for play! We recommend the BGB emulator, we used it for all our debugging and testing.

Quick Update The game runs on BGB *and* VisualBoyAdvance!

Credits:

Programming: @ghost-in-the-toast @buggyspaghetti

Music: @Conduit

Artwork: @Skawly

Tags: #game boy, #retro, #skating

Genres: simulation

Comments18

cppchriscpp6 Apr 2022, 02:51

This is really fun! The music was a highlight, though you have to get kinda good at the game to hear it in all of it's glory. I managed to get all of SKATE (admittedly with a few savestates) and a score of 8963. I had a lot of fun with this, thanks for a great entry!

n00b9 Apr 2022, 01:23

This is basically just the manual mechanic from Tony Hawk. It just does not work as a stand alone game in my opinion. It is fun for about a minute though.

ExeVirus9 Apr 2022, 01:25

Very Very cool, No savestates here, but got to SKA, so I'm proud. The best part is that this is a ROM, you are the second team/group/person to do a ROM based game, and I think I need to go make one myself sometime, haha. Thanks for a fun game!

Giardi9 Apr 2022, 02:24

Really nice. I didn't expect a gameboy game here. You deserve an innovation perfect score. Nice work!

sacredbacon9 Apr 2022, 16:01

I liked the balancing mechanic and the art style, high marks in innovation for making a GB rom. I was always terrible at the manuals in skating games, but it was cool to use that as its own game (very nostalgic). Only managed to get to SKA. Great concept and execution.

angiemon10 Apr 2022, 01:15

This is so awesome!!

I have no idea how I would get this running in a gameboy, will have to get an emulator 🤔🤔

Alex Stewart10 Apr 2022, 01:30

A Gameboy game! That's super cool! Gameplay is fun (even if it's the part I sucked at in the Pro Skater games :confounded:). Overall really enjoyed this game!

Cedric8610 Apr 2022, 13:32

Haha this is nice. I didn't expect to see a game boy rom here. And a skating game to boot. Gameplay is well done too. Great entry. You have my like. :-)

Meta-link10 Apr 2022, 13:36

Wow really impressive ! The game is fun, and the fact that it is a real GB game is so cool.

Good job :slight_smile:

eboatwright12 Apr 2022, 02:45

I LOVE IT! It's so awesome and cute, I loved the music, and the idea is super unique, and massive props to using C and the game boy dev kit, because I bet that was a nightmare :sweat_smile: I personally used Rust. (My favorite programming language) and my best score was 2465

Jeremy Selwyn12 Apr 2022, 02:53

Really like the collect the letters mechanic. The level art was fantastic, loved the 3d pixel art style. Got into serious focus trying to collect the second letter. Had a fun time playing.

Jchab12 Apr 2022, 22:04

i cant get over that you made a GB rom in 3 days. very polished looking stuff!

Conduit13 Apr 2022, 17:46

@eboatwright sound guy checking in, watching the homies get down coding this was stressful to watch :joy: Things on my end were also a bit funky having to use a tracker lol was a wild ride from start to finish! On behalf of the Ghost in the Toast team, thank you all for the feedback!

eboatwright13 Apr 2022, 18:27

@conduit Well, you did a great job with the music! :smile: Yeah, I feel bad for them having to code in C XD I did my code in Rust :crab:

Birdwards16 Apr 2022, 00:18

This game is a good case study in the virtues of making something very simple and polishing it to a sheen. It's almost too simple, but the SKATE letters are a great way of keeping it replayable. It took me a while to realize that keeping a direction held down doesn't do anything more than just tapping it once, and that the proper way of leaning harder in a given direction is to tap that direction multiple times. I had to fight my instincts to internalize that.

LDJam user 25082516 Apr 2022, 10:53

That's one polished Gameboy game! The moving while leaning mechanic was nice though I was only able to get up to SKA, a bit disappointed that going out of the door didn't have a secret ending but understandable given the situation (like shipping a whole damn GB ROM in three days :D). Love the music and art as well, great work everyone!

hmightypirate17 Apr 2022, 19:27

I always love playing new homebrews for the classic gameboy!

This game is simple but has the charm of the gb graphics and plays nicely.

My best score was 1032 that I will try to beat it someday.