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A jam submission

Clonk's Quest Gaiden: Kalamari Dominancy EX Advance (Remastered Edition)View game page

gamble with fish on the Game Boy Advance

Submitted by LCOLONQ (@LCOLONQ) — 9 minutes, 5 seconds before the deadline

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Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Creativity - how original is the idea?	#6	3.693	4.091
Overall	#12	2.899	3.212
Presentation - how does it look/feel?	#14	2.708	3.000
Entertainment - how enjoyable is it?	#19	2.298	2.545

Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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oofoeSubmitted85 days ago

I like the "blackjack as combat" idea. Now that I've got mGBA set up, I hope you'll have a chance to develop it more!

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Class 6 Goes to... HELL!

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technomancyJam HostSubmitted89 days ago(+2)

A+++ title tho

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cohong

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the_dot_matrixSubmitted89 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

worked great on mGBA, i really liked the enemy art and the font used

really curious what your development pipeline looks like, what language did you write in and how on earth did that compile to a GBA game? really cool stuff!

for the life of me i could not win a single battle, always game-over-ed, but it was fun to explore and see all the monsters ^^

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AfflixrElixr

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LCOLONQDeveloper88 days ago(+2)

it's written in Emacs Lisp. I wrote an assembler for ARM and Thumb, the ISAs used on the GBA, inside of elisp. This lets me translate sexprs like "(mov r0 r1)" into the corresponding bytes of machine code. I then built a lot of stuff on top of the assembler to make it nicer to use, like symbol tables, helpers for doing conditionals and loops and functions, etc. It was a ton of fun!

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the_dot_matrixSubmitted88 days ago

Yet another project where I wish there was a technical rating likert scale to give you 6 out of 5 stars. Thanks for explaining! Incredibly impressive!

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nebunezSubmitted89 days ago

Interesting project, great job. I don’t know enough to fully comprehend how you are making Game Boy code from Emacs Lisp, but I know enough to appreciate it :)

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Slugger

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LCOLONQDeveloper88 days ago

thanks for the kind words!

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BaleineSubmitted90 days ago(+1)

Really cool! My favorite clonkemon is Orca (BIG)! Well, I can’t figure out how to beat any clonkemons though… I always lose!

Worked great with beetle GBA in retroarch.

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Slugger

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