[recursivedoubts]

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/) who also did the soft-cover art for https://hypermedia.systems

Hope you find it enjoyable if you get a copy and at least find it funny if you don't :)

[chrismaltby]

Oh 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

[scumdude]

Sweet - thanks for your work on GB Studio, Chris. The music, sprite and palette tools were invaluable during development.

[superdisk]

Did 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]

Yes, 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...

[superdisk]

Haha, awesome. And I like all the wacky Mario Land 2 references :)

[mvdwoord]

Ordered... along with some other swag.

Love HTMX, can't wait for my https://brickboy.xyz/ to arrive so I can get to work!

[mitjam]

Amazing, can’t wait to see the first unboxing / let’s play / review videos.

[iamwil]

Is 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]

It'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]

yep, you'd need to transcribe it

[mossTechnician]

My hat's off to you for finding and shouting out an artist to complete the look!

[WD-42]

Wait but where do we get a gameboy?

[recursivedoubts]

modretro has new ones

https://modretro.com/products/chromatic-tetris-bundle

you can find cheaper ones on amazon/temu too

[scumdude]

The 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]

Do they license from Nintendo or something? I thought this kind of stuff was lawyer bait.

[asploder]

This is too funny, how could I not?

[Klonoar]

How much did this cost to make/produce?

[sroerick]

Whatever it cost, he also gave out free copies at BSDC, what an unbelievably cool and nice thing to do

[zogrodea]

"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.

[SahAssar]

The Fil-C one was at https://softwareshould.work/, not https://bettersoftwareconference.com/.

[sroerick]

I'll also say - scum gave a presentation which was actually very touching. "Love what you do, care deeply about your projects, be with your family". Combined with everything you already said - pretty awesome stuff

[scumdude]

Wait - you guys got paid?

[Klonoar]

Reddit is that way ->

[sroerick]

lol you're talking to the guy who coded it

[Klonoar]

Then I retract my knee-jerk reaction and label myself a moron. :)

Thanks for pointing it out, lol