I've done a few GB covers of songs myself and you knocked it out of the park on this one. Music is excellent, the runner graphics are great but the cut scenes are where you really pushed it. Endless runner is not a style of game I think of when I think of gameboy and it's cool to see a genre that I associate with the smart phone era run on original hardware. I'm excited to see how the ROM plays and sounds on my Miyoo Mini.
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I got really good at making music from my Game Boy Hero games, and I still have probably 30 songs I want to add to Game Boy Hero II. And I think the endless runner concept worked amazingly well given it is a Game Boy game. Sadly its a bit too much for the DMG to handle so I had to make it a GBC game, but it was all designed to be played on the DMG. But the animations is where I spent the bulk of my development time, it became a lot of fun to experiment with how far I could push the Game Boy, and where its limits truly are. I can tell you that the rom plays flawlessly on my Analogue Pocket.
The cool thing is, I think taking what I learned about large scale animation from this game, and creating a simplified Game Boy version of an endless runner, I think I can probably make a very legitimate Temple Run port for the GBC, and I plan on doing so in the not too distant future.
I put the ROM on my Miyoo Mini along with a bunch of the other Jam entries and it played and sounded great.
My game Mega Mall features a cover of Shortnin' Bread and the first GB Game I ever finished was Hall of Hoops was really just a reason to cover Roundball Rock by John Tesh.
I gotta check out your Game Boy Hero stuff too!
So the first Game Boy Hero I had originally named Conquest and it was going to be a Zelda-like game about the White Stripes. In fact, that’s sort of the origins of the music festival, but I didn’t really know what I was doing and had trouble finding free sheet music for anything other than Seven Nation Army. But maybe I’ll buy a White Stripes piano book and make the game someday.