notenogram

(Read as "note-nogram") Made with Butano for GBA Jam 2022, partially inspired by Battle Picross by Sean Reid.

Features:

• 12 original 12x12 picross puzzles to solve
• cringy Japanese anime girl voice clips provided by me
• story mode with three different endings decided by your picross solving skills
• creator mode that allows making puzzles and sharing them via GBA save files[1]
• original character cameos of some sort?

Controls:

• A button - color the square the pen cursor is pointing at/confirm option
• B button - cross out the square/exit menu
• D-pad - move the cursor (hint: pressing and holding a directional key while holding A or B on the picross grid will mark otherwise empty squares as either colored or crossed out in the selected direction)
• Select - exit puzzle screen
• Start (in creator mode) - save current puzzle[2]
• L or R button (in creator mode) - toggle custom puzzle slots in save memory to write to (currently only three slots available, writing to occupied slots will overwrite them without notifying)

Source code and assets along with full credits can be found here.

[1] - ANY save files

[2] - may not work on some emulators (VisualBoyAdvance-M for Linux at least) when booting up the game for the first time, which is why a sample save file with preloaded puzzles is included here separately