| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #17 | 3.909 | 3.909 |
| Level Design | #40 | 3.182 | 3.182 |
| Color Usage | #44 | 3.545 | 3.545 |
| Art | #79 | 2.273 | 2.273 |
| Audio | #91 | 1.091 | 1.091 |
Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Hmm, what emulator are you using? That looks like what happens if the random number generator doesn't work: All the random numbers are 1! That can happen if the emulator doesn't accurately emulate the Game Boy's initial state, which I use as a seed for randomization. I recommend the emulator BGB, which gets this right, but there might be others too! And thanks :D
After I understood the logic the game was pretty fun to play! Just missed any sound at all.
If you wish, try the games I did music to. They are:
Dys Alexia - https://haharo.itch.io/dys-alexia
Wizard Bubble - https://probhe.itch.io/wizard-bubble
That's very nice! I'll make sure to let you know. Although I assume you haven't made much music for an actual Game Boy game before? Or have you?? I'll keep you in mind for more general stuff though! Sound has always been the crucial missing part of my games.
The Bubble Wizard theme is great! Sounds exactly like an alchemy puzzle tune should sound like.
All of the above! I admit I didn't do much research on the matter; I'm basically just using a routine I found on devrs.com. It looks a lot like yours and is probably an LFSR. I'm using uninitialized memory as a seed for PRNG, mixing it with DIV and also calling it every time there's player input: https://github.com/tobiasvl/pocket-patrick/blob/master/src/patrick.asm#L1252 (the stuff afterwards is just mapping the random byte from $00-$FF to 0-28). Don't judge my newbie code too much, haha.
I wanted to make the game playable in the browser, but I actually couldn't find a JS emulator that emulated random uninitialized memory! I didn't have time to look very closely, but it looked to me as all of them just initialized with $00. It looks like you're using GameboyOnline? Does it actually have random memory? If so I screwed up, hehe.
> Does it actually have random memory?
Probably not. As you may have noticed, I couldn't even get sound working. I just figured that anything at all was better than nothing.
Also I'm not actually using RNG for very much, just bat movement, which looks "random enough" even if the seed ends up consistent. I'm also advancing the RNG each frame so it's also somewhat dependent on player input.
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