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Hello all,

I made this game for the Gameboy: Packri Monster: https://popcalent.itch.io/packri-monster

It's inspired by the same name hand held game from the 80's, which, in turn, is a rip-off of Pac Man. However, I introduced many new elements not present in the original hand held game.

You control Packri, and the goal is to eat all the cookies in the screen while avoiding the Boogeys. Once Packri eats all the cookies, Packri will be able to collect a key that will allow to proceed to the next screen.

The difficulty of the game increases with each screen. The first levels are very easy to let the player understand the goal of the game without instructions. Sometimes, the difficulty decreases when a new element/obstacle is introduced, to let the player familiarize with the new element/obstacle.

I made this game in about two weeks without any prior knowledge of GBDK or Gameboy programming. I kinda rushed to finish it before school starts because I won't have the time then, and I didn't want to just put this in a drawer and forget about it. So, it's a little bit crappy... The worst part, imho, is the music and SFX, I have zero knowledge of music, I had to find partitures of existing tunes, translate them to CDEFGAB-whatever, and pray it wouldn't sound like garbage...

I would like to order some cartridges and flash the game, but before, I'm asking people to test play it and find mistakes or easy-fix improvements. I'm also interested in knowing if it's too much easy, too much difficult, too much short, if you got bored right away, etc.

Thanks!


Buttons:

UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT: Move Packri
START: Start the game/Pause
SELECT: Press twice to restart the game *
A/B: Not used

* When you finish the game, you're allowed to replay any level you wish. Once you choose a level, this allows you to restart and choose a different level. Otherwise,  it's not very useful. When you reset the gameboy, you will lose the ability to choose a level, and you'll have to start from level one again.

Last edited by popcalent (2021-09-05 07:39:16)