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hello all, we are releasing htmx 4.0 on the Game Boy and Gameboy Color (thank you rcy for submitting) it is a real, honest-to-goodness mario-bros inspired Game
by recursivedoubts 3mo ago
hello all, we are releasing htmx 4.0 on the Game Boy and Gameboy Color (thank you rcy for submitting)
it is a real, honest-to-goodness mario-bros inspired GameBoy game with four levels over three biomes ending in a slop factory where you battle final boss warren buffering (an online character I beef with, we are friends)
if you beat him it unlocks the source code for htmx 4.0
game was written by Stephen Mitchell (aka scum) by hand, using GBStudio w/heavy customizations, hoping to get an essay by him up soon talking about the creation of the game
carts were produced w/the expertise of Jarason Banes who also did the cover design. Cover art is by Ash (https://www.fiverr.com/ae1996/ https://www.fiverr.com/ae1996/) who also did the soft-cover art for https://hypermedia.systems https://hypermedia.systems
Hope you find it enjoyable if you get a copy and at least find it funny if you don't :)
- WD-42 3mo agoWait but where do we get a gameboy?
- recursivedoubts 3mo agomodretro has new ones https://modretro.com/products/chromatic-tetris-bundle https://modretro.com/products/chromatic-tetris-bundle you can find cheaper ones on amazon/temu too
- scumdude 3mo agoThe Chromatic is an awesome experience to play. The HTMX 4 game has an auto-loader which immediately drops you into the game at your last checkpoint. Since the Chromatic has no boot screen, you're back in play within a second of powering on the system.
- WD-42 3mo agoDo they license from Nintendo or something? I thought this kind of stuff was lawyer bait.
- Klonoar 3mo agoHow much did this cost to make/produce?
- scumdude 3mo agoWait - you guys got paid?
- sroerick 3mo agoWhatever it cost, he also gave out free copies at BSDC, what an unbelievably cool and nice thing to do
- zogrodea 3mo ago"Big Sky Dev Con", not "Better Software Conference" for those who were (like me) initially confused. :) Someone commented in the past few days that the most impressive demo they saw in a conference was LibreOffice running on Fil-C, and I agreed. However, this took the #1 spot from it (leaving that previous demo in #2) in my opinion. Very impressive, and nostalgic too.
- sroerick 3mo ago
- iamwil 3mo agoIs it a real physical cartridge? How do you get the source code off the cartridge at the end? Or does it give you a passcode to a git repo or…like an NFT with access to the source?
- sroerick 3mo agoIt's a real cartridge There's a source code reader at the end of the game, tbd if there are transfer abilities, I haven't beat it yet
- recursivedoubts 3mo agoyep, you'd need to transcribe it
- asploder 3mo agoThis is too funny, how could I not?
- superdisk 3mo agoDid you use the built in GB studio sound engine? If so that's my code :) Always enjoyable when it pops up in places like this. Looks like a fun project.
- scumdude 3mo agoYes, we did. It was a blast using that to make the sounds and music. Got really good at using it by the end of the project. You can listen to the trailer music here. Let me know what you think. https://www.youtube.com/live/9ubSJGyB21Q?si=sz-8pxPs6zxVYMfY&t=25298 https://www.youtube.com/live/9ubSJGyB21Q?si=sz-8pxPs6zxVYMfY...
- superdisk 3mo agoHaha, awesome. And I like all the wacky Mario Land 2 references :)
- mitjam 3mo agoAmazing, can’t wait to see the first unboxing / let’s play / review videos.
- mvdwoord 3mo agoOrdered... along with some other swag. Love HTMX, can't wait for my https://brickboy.xyz/ https://brickboy.xyz/ to arrive so I can get to work!
- chrismaltby 3mo agoOh hey, I made GB Studio, really cool to see it being used for this :) I've got some nice features in progress for the next version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8UKwV1gJAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8UKwV1gJAI
- scumdude 3mo agoSweet - thanks for your work on GB Studio, Chris. The music, sprite and palette tools were invaluable during development.
- mossTechnician 3mo agoMy hat's off to you for finding and shouting out an artist to complete the look!