GB Studio Game Dev: UFO! Menu, Inventory Items, Enemies, and World Progress

Devlog

• MANY UPDATES! NEW ENEMY + SYSTEM CHANGES.
  March 17, 2025 by PixelFight#2D, #Pixel-Art, #Top-Down, #GBstudio, #GBC, #GB, #Gameboy, #SNES, #Retro, #Console, #Cartridge, #Classic, #Pixel, #Vintage

  A lot of small updates in this round. I'll write more about them soon. I'm tired! New level up system MP is consumed in new way (Now refered to as Moon Power, for my game) MP is restored every night a... Continue reading

  
• SMALL UPDATE, HUGE MAP
  March 11, 2025 by PixelFight

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  #pixel-art, #2d, #top-down, #game-dev, #blog

  I took on the large task of rewriting most of my game's code in order to minimize the variable count. Followed a few GB studio tutorials to switch over a lot of my variables to flags. Overall this has... Continue reading

  
• BIG UPDATE! SHIELD, TIME-CONTROL, YO-YO, SURFBOARD, WAY MORE
  January 07, 2025 by PixelFight

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  #GB Studio, #Gameboy, #2d, #GBC, #Open World, #retro, #pixel art, #top-down, #rpg, #zelda, #adventure

  PRETTY BIG UPDATE: Lots of these elements are still work in progress or unrefined Changed Sword to Baseball Bat Changed sling-shot to Yo-Yo Added Stop Watch (Ability to Freeze Time) Added Sun/Moon Wan... Continue reading

  
• Live Map Position, Warping , Map Marking, Hitbox Improvements
  October 22, 2024 by PixelFight

  Improved Melee combat through hitbox optimizing added the players live location to overworld map added the ability to pin the map added the begining of a "Warp" spell or item (the star rod. only works... Continue reading

  
• TIME BASED EVENTS + IMPROVED OVERWORLD
  October 20, 2024 by PixelFight

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  #Zelda, #top-down, #2D, #retro, #GBC, #GB Studio

  Making use of the day/night cycle to implement time based events. For example there is a cave that only opens on Monday night between 11pm and 12pm. Lots of overworld improvements here as I'm slowly b... Continue reading

  
• MOON CYCLES, NIGHT/DAY CYCLE, ENEMY RESPAWN.
  October 15, 2024 by PixelFight

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  #2d, #top-down, #pixel-art

  OKAY LOTS OF UPDATES Most of the changes made in this update are built off of the 12 hour in game clock that I built a few weeks ago. NIGHT PALETTE The overworld now updates in real time to reflect a... Continue reading

  
• Clock Optimizing, Map Design, Bug Fixes
  October 07, 2024 by PixelFight

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  #GB Studio, #Retro, #RPG, #Gameboy, #Pixel-art, #GBC, #Top-Down, #OpenWorld

  I tried my best to fix any ongoing lag from the clock that is always running. I think I found the sweet spot. Clock is now attached to the "Map" screen when you press Select/Shift. I haven't started t... Continue reading

  
• IN-GAME CLOCK WITH DAYS OF THE WEEK!
  October 06, 2024 by PixelFight

  Real-time 12-hour clock now works in the game and during play. Time-based events are now possible that are precise to the day, hour, and minute. I built this using the real-time clock plugin found her... Continue reading

  
• CLIMBING GLOVES + WALL MECHANIC!
  September 28, 2024 by PixelFight

  Testing out a new approach of having the player fall from height if the climbing gloves item aren't equipped. Top Down 2D falling and climbing. Also if the player removes the climbing glove while clim... Continue reading

  
• Glitch Fixes, UFO Sidekick, Cat Morph, Multiple Enemies, Larger Map
  September 26, 2024 by PixelFight

  I've been working on trying to get multiple enemies to seek the player without lag. So far this has been successful as I can now run 4 unique enemies with complicated scripts as well as a UFO sidekick... Continue reading