Second place #gbcompo25 winner "Fortune & Glory" has kickstarter #GameBoy physical release and digital option
"quadrupling its size and adding an additional playable character as well as detailed cutscenes"
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matthewloffhagen/fortune-and-glory-a-game-boy-color-platformer
The final leaderboard of the 'Game' category of #gbcompo25 was just published. Congratulations to OrmBlok, Fortune & Glory, Potion Panic, DropBlox! and Game of Life Kuzushi for winning the 'Best Games' awards!
Lastly, here are the trends for toolchains in #gbcompo over time. As mentioned, mostly steady showing continued participation from all parts of the #Gameboy development community.
There's much more of a shift visible in music drivers.
For music drivers in #gbcompo25, #hugedriver is heavily preferred now but about ~12% of people still use #gbtplayer.
The only other music driver showing this time is #GBMod.
For SFX drivers #VGM2GBSFX has almost the entire share.
If you're wondering... What is #gbcompo25?
- It's a 3 month game jam hosted by many in the #GameBoy homebrew community for games that run on gb hardware. It completed a few days ago.
There are tons of great entries to play, go check em out! & congrats to all participants!
What tools were used to make #gameboy games in #gbcompo25 ? Similar to previous compos + new tooling.
- #gbstudio main share
- #asm, #gbdk / C, #zgb a couple
- New! #GBBasic #libgb++ #MatlabGB
"Unknown" == likely #asm (#rgbds, #wladx, etc)
Data using: https://github.com/bbbbbr/gbtoolsid
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I just submitted a game for the #gbcompo25 !
As it's my first game for the Game Boy, I went as simple as I could manage: an implementation of Scoundrel, a solitaire dungeon-crawling card game designed by Zach Gage and Kurt Bieg.
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