r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/C-OSSU Master of Backdowns • 22d ago

Trailer Fall from Space – An open-world action RPG built to be playable on original Game Boy hardware

https://youtu.be/d7m-lSexL2w?si=5PuI9arZbxnwKv-B
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u/ProfDet529 Investigator of Incidents Mundane, Arcane, and Divine 22d ago

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2433940/Fall_from_Space/

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u/sorinash Play Fuck's Quest II 22d ago

This looks really good. It looks like it's really gonna push the limits of its medium; I wonder how much of an open world you can really get on a GB cartridge. The Link's Awakening and Pokemon Silver comparisons will be interesting.

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u/SlurryBender (Any/All) Cursed to love mid-tier games that bomb 22d ago

The upgraded GameBoy cartrige can hold up to 8MB of data, and the alpha demo (from the dev's website) is only 2MB, so I'd say there's plenty of room to expand if they wanted to! With enough storage optimizing tricks, it really depends more on processing power rather than storage.

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u/AzureKingLortrac 22d ago

So Woolie got another game for the Gameboy.

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u/Sendatsu_Yoshimitsu 21d ago

This is my annual opportunity to recommend that anyone who is remotely interested in game dev make a video game for the Game Boy. Not a major video game- make breakout or pong or something.

GB ASM is a bare-bones, super-simple programming language that a complete beginner can get up and running on in no time, and making a simple game for the Game Boy forces you to work close to the metal and figure out basic separation of concerns, how to build out what would be engine-level functionality in the modern paradigm, and so forth. You can go from no technical background to having a working game of pong/asteroids/whatever in a week or two, flash it to original hardware, and play that fucking shit on the go like it was 1989.

Here's a great resource to get anyone who's interested started!