{"author_link":"\/author\/siobyte\/","author_name":"siObyte","author_uid":"62619","comments":[{"author_name":"SketchyGalore","author_uid":"30014","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:07am","epoch":1450069320,"text":"Awesome achievement! I imagine programming in that format couldn't be easy! I had to emulate it of course, but it would have been neat to try it on an actual GB!"},{"author_name":"utoxin","author_uid":"50911","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:13am","epoch":1450069680,"text":"Sorry, can't run it (no emulator or GB), but it sounds really neat."},{"author_name":"mrjorts","author_uid":"56525","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:16am","epoch":1450069860,"text":"Wow! Very cool to see a game boy game. It plays well, but it doesn't seem to get harder as it goes. I'm a little worried about why the plant needs to be watered with blood D:"},{"author_name":"danbolt","author_uid":"6930","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:21am","epoch":1450070160,"text":"I ran with OpenEmu on Mac OS X. If I had a DMG flashcart, I'd be on this in a second and changing the pallettes on my GBC.\r\rHow did you find assembly programming on the Game Boy? I've looked into C assemblers for it but I've never been so brave."},{"author_name":"mackthehobbit","author_uid":"21333","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:26am","epoch":1450070460,"text":"Glad to see how this turned out! It's not really fun to play, but it's awesome that you got something functional writing just assembly. Great job!"},{"author_name":"xdigdoug","author_uid":"43259","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:28am","epoch":1450070580,"text":"This is a gameboy game. I was able to run this on a GBA emulator. Very interesting them, a little short though, only one level, but I don't know the details of programming for Game Boy.\r\rOverall, a pretty decent game. For your next game, maybe make it so that you can collect more than 1 resource at a time (can only hold one blood)!"},{"author_name":"yumaikas","author_uid":"62747","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:51am","epoch":1450071960,"text":"This is definitely worth taking a little look, if only to see what it 48 hours of work on a GB game looks like."},{"author_name":"Bemmu","author_uid":"13321","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:04am","epoch":1450072740,"text":"I'm really impressed you pulled off making anything playable on this platform in the allotted time.\r\rPoints for sound just because there are some! I liked the little gun bounce as you walk around.\r\rAs for the game, I wasn't exactly sure what to do. I guess collect blood, then grow that center thing and get crops. I got up to 6 crop before figuring out that probably nothing else would happen."},{"author_name":"Bobrocket","author_uid":"10241","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:46am","epoch":1450075260,"text":"Awesome game! It would have been awesome to see how this plays on a real gameboy though."},{"author_name":"prymidion","author_uid":"47070","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 11:18am","epoch":1450091580,"text":"Damn, it's pretty cool that you're capable of doing something like this in two days!"},{"author_name":"siObyte","author_uid":"62619","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:38pm","epoch":1450107180,"text":"Here's a video of it playing on a real Gameboy DMG, thanks to \/u\/gpremier on reddit.\r\rhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vA5JopDTlc0"},{"author_name":"refreshgames","author_uid":"6823","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:37pm","epoch":1450110720,"text":"Whoa! You did this in raw assembly! That is crazy awesome! I only delve as far down to GBDK and C. So, that must have been quite an effort! Once my replacement Flash Cart arrives I'll be putting this on there pretty sharpish!\r\rLook forward to any further developments on this in the future. Damn, ASM jamming, that's nuts, crazy cool nuts :D"},{"author_name":"martincohen","author_uid":"55211","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:49pm","epoch":1450111440,"text":"Ran in on my GCW Zero. I had fun playing it. Amazing you did it in Z80. I bow to you, good sir."},{"author_name":"George","author_uid":"14638","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:29pm","epoch":1450117440,"text":"Nice work on getting this working - I couldn't stand doing that much Assembly!"},{"author_name":"rogberth","author_uid":"8913","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:32pm","epoch":1450117620,"text":"Coding a game in z80 assembly for Game Boy. Now that is hard work! Congrats!"},{"author_name":"GeeItSomeLaldy","author_uid":"40246","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:41pm","epoch":1450118160,"text":"Web version links to the download page, no web version there"},{"author_name":"siObyte","author_uid":"62619","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:51pm","epoch":1450118760,"text":"@GeeItSomeLaldy\r\rThere is no "web" version as it's a Gameboy rom file, you either need to run it through a emulator, a real Gameboy (using a flash cart), or you can use the online-flash based Gameboy emulator I have linked at the bottom of the description if you don't want to download one yourself. (You still need to download the rom file, to use it on the flash-emulator page)"},{"author_name":"nonetheless","author_uid":"36254","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:31pm","epoch":1450121160,"text":"Really impressed, game is super pretty, great you did it with such constraints. Amazing entry!!!"},{"author_name":"tayl1r","author_uid":"5556","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:19pm","epoch":1450124040,"text":"Dark"},{"author_name":"mlepage","author_uid":"61867","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 12:18am","epoch":1450138380,"text":"Nice! I played it in the online emulator and it worked OK, I harvested 5 crops."},{"author_name":"fluidvolt","author_uid":"26913","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 12:27am","epoch":1450138920,"text":"Holy smokes are you ambitious. Assembly! Week's experience! How?\r\rEven though this is super simple, it's really astounding you completed a gameboy game in 2 days. I enjoy the simple graphics, they look really clean and sleek, especially considering the gameboy restrictions. Good job."},{"author_name":"siObyte","author_uid":"62619","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 12:49am","epoch":1450140240,"text":"Thanks! It was definitely a big challenge, I tried to learn as much as I could the 5 days leading up to LD, and in the end I still had to learn things mid-LD. Like the rabbits, I had no clue how I was going to implement an arbitrary number of rabbits in assembly, but I got it figured out in the end!\r\rThe full source is up on github, though some things I could have done much better (I should really refine the collision code into a few nice sub-routines, that I can use for any collision), and github seem's to have bugged the indenting a bit, I should fix that to.."},{"author_name":"drludos","author_uid":"29773","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 12:57am","epoch":1450140720,"text":"A gameboy game in 48h? in assembly? Impressive! (it's the 2nd GB game I play during this LD, I guess GameBoy is the new cool, beware Unity! ;))\r\rThe game is also quite fun to play. Simple idea but effective, and I like the graphics! Well done!"},{"author_name":"NuvlearGames","author_uid":"36219","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 9:30am","epoch":1450171500,"text":"Very nice, took awhile to figure out the controls, but very good considering the constraints. Well done"},{"author_name":"josefnpat","author_uid":"11249","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:33pm","epoch":1450200480,"text":"Wow, this is one hell of an achievement! Really awesome job! This totally makes me want to make a z80 game now, wow!"},{"author_name":"lurils","author_uid":"16303","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 8:18pm","epoch":1450210380,"text":"simple but nice, congratulations on making it work perfectly."},{"author_name":"Weloxux","author_uid":"49059","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 11:01am","epoch":1450263360,"text":"Really cool stuff! Loving the graphics, and most of all, the effort of doing it in asm. My score seems to disappear after 10 points, sadly."},{"author_name":"siObyte","author_uid":"62619","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 12:05pm","epoch":1450267200,"text":"@Weloxux lol, yeah..I didn't get time to properly implement a numbering system with tiles, if you get a score above like, 255. Then the score tile will start going through the rest of the game tiles :p"},{"author_name":"local306","author_uid":"55445","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 4:39pm","epoch":1450283640,"text":"Wow! That's super cool how this was built!"},{"author_name":"g12345","author_uid":"63136","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 12:22pm","epoch":1450354620,"text":"Quite an achievement for doing a GB game in 2 days, in assembly! Well done!"},{"author_name":"OldPeculier","author_uid":"25979","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 5:17am","epoch":1450415520,"text":"Major ratings for the technical achievement. Yeah... not so great ratings for the gameplay. But Hey!—Z80 assembly! Wow!"},{"author_name":"randomhuman","author_uid":"56477","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 3:33pm","epoch":1450625280,"text":"Not much to the gameplay, but I definitely respect the ambition and graft required to put something together in assembly for retro hardware! And it looks good as well, with cute little animations."},{"author_name":"scorched","author_uid":"48268","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 7:26pm","epoch":1450639260,"text":"You are the champion of making people click to play the game (itch.io + emulator) :-) Looks fine, but I don't get how to press A and B in that emulator (I don't have a working gamepad)..."},{"author_name":"siObyte","author_uid":"62619","time":"Dec 21, 2015 @ 6:23am","epoch":1450678680,"text":"The controls on that web emulator appear to be the standard Z and X for A and B. :)"},{"author_name":"brainstorm","author_uid":"44355","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 6:37pm","epoch":1450809120,"text":"Woah, that's amazing. Porting a game to a Game Boy is really good! Though the gameplay itself it's quite simple and repetitive, what I really vote in this game is that you've a great achievement!\r\r4\/5"},{"author_name":"kmakai","author_uid":"28426","time":"Dec 26, 2015 @ 7:40pm","epoch":1451158500,"text":"Wow, this is awesome! Congrats on completing this and submitting to the compo, that really is an achievement. I'm looking forward to perusing the source, too. I really like the graphics, this would have been a nice look even if it weren't restricted to the Gameboy hardware! \r\rMy only suggestion\/critique is that the counter for "blood" makes it seem like you could collect more than one at a time, which was slightly confusing at first, but overall not a big deal at all.\r\rReally, awesome job. Congratulations on the accomplishment!"}],"images":["ld34\/62619-70739248bb27a55df6cac8952949b18f.jpg","ld34\/62619-f1cf472dbbc312f815804ca299dd475d.jpg","ld34\/62619-f5cc2f64e267293e6b7e9483fe295b25.jpg","ld34\/62619-e495df88b0ce3043d9fb82df6c48c5cb.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/sio.itch.io\/plantboy","text":"Gameboy ROM"},{"url":"http:\/\/nesbox.com\/emulator\/flash\/","text":"Web Emulator"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/siObyte\/PlantBoy","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"6487","g_author":"62619","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"6483","g_title":"PlantBoy","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"278","g_commentcount":"36","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/62619-shot0-1450047106.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/62619-shot1-1450047106.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/62619-shot2-1450047106.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/62619-shot3-1450062015.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"-- PlantBoy --\r\nThe goal of the game is to harvest crops, but for your crops to grow you need water! And planet-rabbit-land, there is no water! So you must kill rabbits, harvest their blood, and use it to water your crops!\r\n\r\nYou will need either a Gameboy emulator, or a flash cart to play this, this is a *REAL* Gameboy DMG game!\r\n\r\n-- Controls --\r\nD-Pad - Move\r\nA - Shoot\r\nB - Water Crops\r\n\r\n-- More details --\r\nPlantBoy was a challenge, the goal was never to win, or even do well! I set out in the hopes of creating a simple, functioning *real* Gameboy game, written fully in z80 assembly in 48 hours.\r\n\r\nHaving about only a weeks experience in z80 assembly, and only little knowledge of assembly in general this was a big challenge. I'm happy with how far I got though, I plan to refine the code a little in the next few days.\r\n\r\nOh, and if anyone actually does play this on a physical Gameboy, and not an emulator, please record a video of it and show me! I've only been able to test this on emulators myself.\r\n\r\n-*NOTICE*-\r\nIf you don't want to download an emulator, you can download the .gb file and play it on this website (It's a Gameboy emulator in flash!)\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/nesbox.com\/emulator\/flash\/","title":"PlantBoy"}