ION – A gameboy action puzzle game in GBDK in development

Despite not having many hour last weekend for Ludum Dare, I started to put together the pieces for another lil Gameboy Game called ION. Where you take the role of a charged particle that needs to attain certain levels of charge to proceed to further levels and boost the players score.

It’s a fairly simple game in essence and uses ice physics for motion control with state-based A.I. charges that vary between seeking and fleeing routines to keep the player on their toes.

Here’s a quick 20 second video with some of the game in action.

There’s still a way to go, but I’m planning on adding obstacles, slow and charge wells to help mix the gameplay up.

Gameboy GBDK Tutorial ROM Code!

Yes, it’s finally here, with comments and everything! Below is the code for the C file and I’ve included all the files with a readme.txt file for your perusal here. I hope this helps you to get started on your gameboy development journeys!

gbdkdemo .zip file, 6kb

A sudden Jolt, of Gameboy Goodness!

So, I noticed that Gamejolt now allow you to play gameboy ROMs directly from your browser, that’s pretty cool I thought, best upload some games I’ve made to see how it runs then.

And, lo and behold, 5 games uploaded and they all seem to be emulated rather well, they even included CGB (Gameboy Colour) Support on there also.

5games-ongamejolt-nowIt seems like a nice place to host the files, they’re not going to take up much space either way, but gamejolt serves as a handy place to put them all! View, Play & Download these lil Gameboy beasties here!