The Year Wrapped for #GBDK & #ZGB!

2025, another good year for releases! Here's a browse of #GameBoy, #NES & #SMS/#GameGear games people made with #GBDK2020.

Check out the gallery & give some a try, most free to download & play.
https://gbdk-2020.github.io/gbdk-2020-gallery/?yearReleased=2025

Congrats everyone! There were 73 releases for 2025 in total (that I know about). Includes released demos in addition to completed games.

Most tags are clickable as filters, plus other ways to sort and search.

#indiedev #retrogaming #retrodev

In the breakdown by version people are mostly using current releases (as in other gb jams) for #GBstudio, #GBDK and #ZGB when making games.

Though a few people use (much) older versions.

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
#retrodev #gbdev

New release of #gbtoolsid: 1.5.2

A command line & web app for identifying tools used to build #GameBoy ROMs (such as #GBDK, #GBStudio, #zgb, #hugedriver, etc)

Changes over last few versions:
- Improve detection: GBStudio, VGM2GBSFX, GBDK, GBBasic
- Detect #GBSDK
- Linux and Mac Arm64 builds

Console: https://github.com/bbbbbr/gbtoolsid/releases
Web: https://bbbbbr.github.io/gbtoolsid_web/

#gbdev #retrogaming

Releases · bbbbbr/gbtoolsid

A command line app for identifying tools used to build Game Boy ROMs - bbbbbr/gbtoolsid

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📢 Neuerscheinung: Über den Schöpfer des Schweizer #ZGB ist viel bekannt; will man aber den Menschen Eugen Huber kennenlernen dann empfiehlt sich die Lektüre von "Briefe an die tote Frau". Aufgearbeitet wurden Briefe, die Huber seiner Frau Lina Weissert während sieben Jahren nach deren Tod geschrieben hat. Der neue Band 6 liefert auch Einblicke in die politische Arbeit als Jurist im Kriegsjahr 1915.
https://books.unibe.ch/index.php/BB/catalog/book/40
#law #openaccess #history
Briefe an die tote Frau: Vol.6 (1915) | BOP Books

Added all 60 #GameBoy games made with #ZGB Engine into #GBDK Showcase.
https://gbdk-2020.github.io/gbdk-2020-gallery/?sortSelector=Year+Featured&usesEngine=ZGB

ZGB is a lightweight C/asm Engine built on top of GBDK-2020.
https://github.com/Zal0/ZGB

CrossZGB is a recent fork by toxa that adds support for #SegaMasterSystem, #GameGear and #MegaDuck.
https://github.com/gbdk-2020/CrossZGB/

#retrodev #retrogaming

GBDK Showcase

A collection of GBDK/GBDK-2020 Games, Demos, Music and Programs

Toxa has released a new version of #CrossZGB (multi-console retro game engine based on the original #ZGB engine)

- PSGLib music support for #gamegear #segamastersystem
- Quality of life improvements
- Sprite and other optimizations
- More examples

#retrodev #retrogaming #gameboy #gbdev

https://github.com/gbdk-2020/CrossZGB/releases/tag/v2024.1

Release Cross ZGB v2024.1 · gbdk-2020/CrossZGB

CrossZGB is a multi-platform game engine that lets you write your own games in C or asm for the several consoles. New Features PSGLib music support for the SMS/GG Sprite manager performance optimi...

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New #GameBoy kickstarter for Linked Masked GB Edition

"A hardcore platformer with progressive difficulty, 20 levels and a final boss await you!

Incarnate yourself in the skin of Viewer, a curious traveler who has been called by the gods to fulfill an objective that is not very clear, but you are already here."

Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mekanicalvoid/linked-mask-gameboy-port

Demo rom
https://klonoz.itch.io/unlinked-mask-gb-demo

#retrogaming #gbdev #nintendo #zgb

Teilnehmer des Nikolaus-Kistner-Gymnasiums Mosbach. (Foto: pm)
Mosbach. (pm) Die Teilnehmer der Sparkasse Neckartal-Odenwald konnten beim diesjährigen Planspiel Börse herausragende Leistungen #Mosbach #NKG #PlanspielBöse #Slider #Sparkasse #ZGB

https://www.nokzeit.de/2024/07/27/erfolge-beim-planspiel-boerse/

Erfolge beim Planspiel Börse

Teilnehmer des Nikolaus-Kistner-Gymnasiums Mosbach. (Foto: pm) Mosbach. (pm) Die Teilnehmer der Sparkasse Neckartal-Odenwald konnten beim diesjährigen Planspiel Börse herausragende Leistungen verzeichnen. Insbesondere Schülergruppen der Zentralen Gewerbeschule Buchen (ZGB) und des Nikolaus-Kistner-Gymnasiums (NKG) Mosbach waren sehr erfolgreich. Im landesweiten Vergleich sicherten sich die Schülergruppen eindrucksvoll die Plätze zwei und drei. Zur…

NOKZEIT - Nachrichten aus Neckartal - Odenwald - Bauland

The first release of #CrossZGB is out.

A multi-console fork of the #ZGB game engine for writing games in C or asm.

(most work by Toxa, some build/tooling support by me)
https://github.com/gbdk-2020/CrossZGB/releases/latest

First release adds these to existing ZGB features:
- Cross Platform
- #GameBoy/Color
- #SMS
- #GameGear
- Analogue .pocket
- #MegaDuck
- MacOS & Linux host OS
- New SFX engine
- And more...

Example ZGB Game Boy releases by Zal0 ported to MegaDuck, GG, SMS with CrossZGB
https://github.com/gbdk-2020/CrossZGB/wiki/Made-with-CrossZGB

Release Cross ZGB v2024.0 · gbdk-2020/CrossZGB

CrossZGB is a multi-platform game engine that lets you write your own games in C or asm for the several consoles listed below. This first release brings several improvements in addition to the grea...

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