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trying similar things on the same exact hardware, opening up opportunities for community and collaboration. The Gameboy homebrew community would provide that f
by causality0 5y ago
trying similar things on the same exact hardware, opening up opportunities for community and collaboration.
The Gameboy homebrew community would provide that for you, with the added benefit of a much larger potential userbase.
- haswell 5y agoI think that's great, but how accessible is that community? How high is the barrier to entry? Genuinely interested because I'll probably spend some time dabbling there. I don't think this needs to be an either/or conversation though.
- cableshaft 5y agoAs someone who's been really wanting to make a Gameboy port of one of my games and also played with PlayDate dev, PlayDate has been much easier to get up and running with it. Gameboy has been difficult enough (although it has gotten a lot easier with the gb dev kit, it's still not easy) I haven't gotten very far with it yet.
- MBCook 5y agoPlaydate games can be played online through the browser, I think. The Playdate has WAY more CPU power, WAY more RAM, WiFi, storage, and drastically better sound. Plus a crank! No need mor mapper chips or other complications. I like that they kept limitations like having a black and white screen (not greyscale ala GB), and a smaller resolution. so there are still creative constraints. But a lot of the software constraints no longer exist so it’s more approachable.