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Graphic design by DaaWeeD.

Resources

Here is a brief list of tools and documentation to get you started.

• General links
  • The Game Boy, a hardware autopsy (Video)
  • The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (Video)
  • Pan Docs, Game Boy technical documentation
  • Awesome Game Boy Development list of resources
    • Especially relevant is the "Software Development" section
  • How to choose between C and ASM for GB?
• RGBDS (ASM language)
  • GB ASM Tutorial
• GBDK (C language)
  • API docs: Getting Started
  • Examples / Open Source GBDK games
  • Docs, links and tools
  • ZGB: a game engine using GBDK / CrossZGB (an updated fork of ZGB)
  • Dedicated Discord
  • "How-to make a Gameboy Game" tutorial series
• GBStudio (no coding required)
  • Resources to get started
  • Dedicated Discord
  • Let's Build a Platformer Game!
• Music
  • lsdpack and lsdlack-kit for making LSDJ playback ROMs
    (other audio drivers in ROM form are ok too)

Past edition

You can check out gbcompo21 and gbcompo23, the past editions of the event, to get inspired and see the winning entries. Some of them were also released as Open Source!