The Squire (Gameboy)

You are a young squire, who wants to become a knight. Shoot your way through woods, mountains and dungeons to fulfill your destiny.

FEATURES

- 5 levels

- 3 different weapons

- 4 different enemy types

CONTROLS

- D-PAD for 8-way movement

- A / B for shooting

CREDITS

Art: DragonDePalatino

Music: GB Community Pack

Engine: Zalo (Creator of ZGB)

DEV NOTES

This game was made for the Gameboy Competition 2021.  

Sorry, for the lack of sounds (which are essential for shooters, whoopsie). Making appropriate sounds for the Gameboy is a chore and I already reached my personal deadline.

Play it on Gameboy Color for better performance.

Originally this game was planned as a RPG-Shooter, which is in my opinion an underdeveloped genre, but this project took waaaaay more time than it should. The Gameboy has it quirks and I made many, many mistakes along the way, but I learned a LOT during development. 

Prior to making this game I didn´t have any knowledge about C. I want to encourage everyone to try the ZGB Engine. Zalo, the creator of ZGB, wrote a great tutorial how to use the engine. I used any piece of code I could find to get familiar with the engine. So copy as much as you can in the beginning. It will take a while (especially understanding pointers and structs), but your results will be awesome. Don´t be afraid of coding. The code for this game was written in Notepad++. ZGB is a great engine and Zalo updated it recently. Give it a chance! I hope you had fun playing my game.