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Manual Manny! by ghost-in-the-toast

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made by ghost-in-the-toast for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

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Description

All the best skaters in town can bust out a manual, why can't you? Your name is Manny, a dorky kid who just wants to be a RAD SKATER. Master your manual skills and become the BEST skater in the city!

"Manual Manny!" is the latest in Nintendo GAMEBOY skateboarding technology, keep Manny steady for as long as possible before you inevitably WIPE OUT! You can also move Manny around to collect all the letters of SKATE to get a RADICAL point bonus!

Controls:

Gameboy: Left D-pad or B button for left movement, and Right D-pad or A button for right movement.

Emulator: Map controls to your preference!

IMPORTANT This game is a real deal Gameboy ROM! So using an emulator or Gameboy flash cart will be required for play! We recommend the BGB emulator, we used it for all our debugging and testing.

Quick Update The game runs on BGB and VisualBoyAdvance!

Credits:

Programming: @ghost-in-the-toast @buggyspaghetti

Music: @Conduit

Artwork: @Skawly

.GB Rom file https://ghostinthetoast.itch.io/manual-manny
Soundtrack https://soundcloud.com/officialconduit/sets/manual-manny-ludum-dare
View at your own risk... https://github.com/daltonchutes/something_stupid
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/manual-manny

Ratings

Overall 352th 3.789⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 325th 3.711⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 177th 3.842⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 142th 4.184⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 277th 4.158⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 127th 4.026⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 396th 3.469⭐ 18🧑‍⚖️
Mood 230th 3.947⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 20🗳️ 13🗨️

Feedback

cppchriscpp
06. Apr 2022 · 02:51 UTC
This is really fun! The music was a highlight, though you have to get kinda good at the game to hear it in all of it's glory. I managed to get all of SKATE (admittedly with a few savestates) and a score of 8963. I had a lot of fun with this, thanks for a great entry!
n00b
09. Apr 2022 · 01:23 UTC
This is basically just the manual mechanic from Tony Hawk. It just does not work as a stand alone game in my opinion. It is fun for about a minute though.
ExeVirus
09. Apr 2022 · 01:25 UTC
Very Very cool, No savestates here, but got to SKA, so I'm proud. The best part is that this is a ROM, you are the second team/group/person to do a ROM based game, and I think I need to go make one myself sometime, haha. Thanks for a fun game!
Giardi
09. Apr 2022 · 02:24 UTC
Really nice. I didn't expect a gameboy game here. You deserve an innovation perfect score. Nice work!
sacredbacon
09. Apr 2022 · 16:01 UTC
I liked the balancing mechanic and the art style, high marks in innovation for making a GB rom. I was always terrible at the manuals in skating games, but it was cool to use that as its own game (very nostalgic). Only managed to get to SKA. Great concept and execution.
angiemon
10. Apr 2022 · 01:15 UTC
This is so awesome!!

I have no idea how I would get this running in a gameboy, will have to get an emulator 🤔🤔
Alex Stewart
10. Apr 2022 · 01:30 UTC
A Gameboy game! That's super cool! Gameplay is fun (even if it's the part I sucked at in the Pro Skater games :confounded:). Overall really enjoyed this game!
Cedric86
10. Apr 2022 · 13:32 UTC
Haha this is nice. I didn't expect to see a game boy rom here. And a skating game to boot. Gameplay is well done too. Great entry. You have my like. :-)
Meta-link
10. Apr 2022 · 13:36 UTC
Wow really impressive ! The game is fun, and the fact that it is a real GB game is so cool.

Good job :slight_smile:
eboatwright
12. Apr 2022 · 02:45 UTC
I LOVE IT! It's so awesome and cute, I loved the music, and the idea is super unique, and massive props to using C and the game boy dev kit, because I bet that was a nightmare :sweat_smile: I personally used Rust. (My favorite programming language) and my best score was 2465
Jeremy Selwyn
12. Apr 2022 · 02:53 UTC
Really like the collect the letters mechanic. The level art was fantastic, loved the 3d pixel art style. Got into serious focus trying to collect the second letter. Had a fun time playing.
Jchab
12. Apr 2022 · 22:04 UTC
i cant get over that you made a GB rom in 3 days. very polished looking stuff!
Conduit
13. Apr 2022 · 17:46 UTC
@eboatwright sound guy checking in, watching the homies get down coding this was stressful to watch :joy: Things on my end were also a bit funky having to use a tracker lol was a wild ride from start to finish! On behalf of the Ghost in the Toast team, thank you all for the feedback! <3
eboatwright
13. Apr 2022 · 18:27 UTC
@conduit Well, you did a great job with the music! :smile: Yeah, I feel bad for them having to code in C XD I did my code in Rust :crab:
Birdwards
16. Apr 2022 · 00:18 UTC
This game is a good case study in the virtues of making something very simple and polishing it to a sheen. It's almost too simple, but the SKATE letters are a great way of keeping it replayable. It took me a while to realize that keeping a direction held down doesn't do anything more than just tapping it once, and that the proper way of leaning harder in a given direction is to tap that direction multiple times. I had to fight my instincts to internalize that.
LDJam user 250825
16. Apr 2022 · 10:53 UTC
That's one polished Gameboy game! The moving while leaning mechanic was nice though I was only able to get up to SKA, a bit disappointed that going out of the door didn't have a secret ending but understandable given the situation (like shipping a whole damn GB ROM in three days :D). Love the music and art as well, great work everyone!
hmightypirate
17. Apr 2022 · 19:27 UTC
I always love playing new homebrews for the classic gameboy!

This game is simple but has the charm of the gb graphics and plays nicely.

My best score was 1032 that I will try to beat it someday.
LDJam user 267116
18. Apr 2022 · 04:08 UTC
This is a really neat game! Way cool to make a gameboy rom. Simple but well done mechanic, I love how the little dude looks.