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 :)

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chrismaltby 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sweet - thanks for your work on GB Studio, Chris. The music, sprite and palette tools were invaluable during development.

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superdisk 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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scumdude 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Haha, awesome. And I like all the wacky Mario Land 2 references :)

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mitjam 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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mvdwoord 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ordered... along with some other swag.

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

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WD-42 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wait but where do we get a gameboy?

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recursivedoubts 2 hours ago | parent [-]

modretro has new ones

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

you can find cheaper ones on amazon/temu too

	▲	scumdude 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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iamwil 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		yep, you'd need to transcribe it

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asploder 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is too funny, how could I not?

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Klonoar 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How much did this cost to make/produce?

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sroerick 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

	▲	zogrodea 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"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.

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scumdude 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wait - you guys got paid?

	▲	Klonoar an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Reddit is that way ->