Gameboy Development Forum

Just watched the trailer, it looks great! I can tell that you put a lot of effort into the game. You have inspired me!

I'm very glad I have inspired you holtkamp, thanks for the compliments.

It is 100% written in assembly. I started a protoype in C (Game Boy Development Kit) and and found it was worth making the leap. I specifically use the assembler Rednex Gameboy Development System.

Yeah, I like classic Mega Man games a lot. But I also take as a reference other action/platformer titles.

Thanks for the compliments LuckyLights. Open sourcing does not fit into my plans. If I do, I would do it for divulgative purposes. But I prefer to show people Game Boy development through a tutorial or a dedicated project.

On the usage of assembly, there were many reasons. These include greater control over the hardware, make more efficient program, and stay away from the tools available for development in C, as GBDK. Who does not enjoy too stable functionality and gives far fewer options for the developer.

My particular reasons included the interest that I had in learning about assembly and Game Boy hardware, because at that time much of my frustration came not so much from the tool (also) as from the lack of hardware knowledge. And C did not invite as much to study the system as did assembly.

Anyway, this would be a list of more objective reasons:
- GBDK has a lot of bugs. Now I'm developing a new game based on this tool and I have a file in the project with simple operations performed in asssembly, just to avoid homonyms C operations fail (because in fact they do fail regularly without apparent reason).
- Speed: There are things that are difficult to perform with GBDK. For example, in this game that I recently presented to the bitbitjam3 (http://gamejolt.com/games/akaru-hime-th … ess/162393), the graphical sprite update routine had to be done in assembler. Making the update using the library functions of GBDK was too slow.
- Debugging: While in assembler you can comfortably use an emulator as BGB to create breakpoints or trace code, with GBDK you have your hand tied.

I hope that these reasons will help you see why I took the leap. Although in my case it was not about ask me why, but rather why not.

Last edited by Imanolea (2016-07-10 05:07:16)

Okay thank you Imanoela, that very interesting. I guess I have hade the same felling and thought about GBDK for a long time. Yet seen I don't ever encounter asm in my profession life I never hade the motivation to switch. What resources would you recommend sense you just did the switch from GBDK to asm? I would find a blog post about this matter with your thoughts very interesting.

I have been using GBDK for 3 years now I guess... =P lol

The Rocket Man demo updates and adds Super Game Boy Support!
https://imanoleasgames.blogspot.com.es/ … -demo.html

I hope you like it.

I'm glad you liked the game a cat. Like I said in this same topic to LuckyLights: "Open sourcing does not fit into my plans. If I do, I would do it for divulgative purposes. But I prefer to show people Game Boy development through a tutorial or a dedicated project.". So I've started writing on my blog some posts about Game Boy development under the name of Games aside (http://gbdev.gg8.se/forums/viewtopic.php?id=364, http://gbdev.gg8.se/forums/viewtopic.php?id=379).

Hi npzman, thanks for the interest in the game. Like I said in this same topic to LuckyLights and later to a cat: "Open sourcing does not fit into my plans. If I do, I would do it for divulgative purposes. But I prefer to show people Game Boy development through a tutorial or a dedicated project.". It's not that I discard that possibility, but it's not something I'm going to do during the development.

npzman: There is a full release planned at some point in the future (when completed). The ROM will be available for free.
And I would be thrilled to release Rocket Man in physical format. I will be working hard to achieve this. This edition of the game will not be free, but I do not plan to make money by selling it. The sale will probably work as a means of financing it at logistic level.

Last edited by Imanolea (2017-01-12 05:35:43)