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Hi! Thanks for supporting our project. Unfortunately no, as our game just respects the limitations of the Game Boy as an aesthetic, but the technology used is actually Unity. Someone contacted us to port the game to actual Game Boy hardware, so that can be something in the future, but we won't make promises as this is an independent developer (as we are haha) working on it in their free time.

That said, we are working on the Android version of the game which would make it playable in a wide range of devices that have the Game Boy / Nintendo DS form factor.

It is in our plans. We have to work on some small fixes before dedicating time to that, but we will soon publish and Android version. Thanks for the support!

Many people mistake our game for a real GBC game because we followed pretty much all the restrictions the console imposes haha There is an independent developer working on a port for actual game boy hardware, but we have no idea how long it will take him to get it ported.

We lowered the priority for this feature because it is so hard to make good menus with the Game Boy limitations :/
We thought of having an overlay, but that would be significant work for us (we work on this project in our free time). We will figure something out, and will let you know!

In the meanwhile, I can't recommend this tool enough:
https://github.com/antimicroX/antimicroX?tab=readme-ov-file

In my humble opinion, key binding is such a core feature that instead of every application having to implement it, we should be able to define bindings per application at the Operating System level. Wayland on Linux has this feature, but it is a bit advanced and involves editing config files. As for the other OSs, maybe in a thousand years haha

Thanks a lot for the support!

Nope! It should work just fine :)

Even though we kept it faithful to Game Boy limitations, this is not a ROM. It is a game developed in Unity.
We didn't publish an ARM build as well, so it probably doesn't run in many portable devices, but we will figure this out in the near future!

We actually have this feature semi-implemented. We didn't ship it in this first release because I didn't have enough time to test it, but it will certainly pop up in the coming updates. Thanks for playing our game!

Yep, sorry for that. This is a spare time project for us and everyone in the dev team had a pretty hard time in 2024, but now we're back on track. Development is indeed almost done, but the final details take so much time... 😰

Thanks for the support, and positive feedback. Not saying that criticisms are bad or anything, but it really gives us that final motivation required to iron out the final issues.

Controls cannot be remapped unfortunately. It is one of the few things we haven't implemented yet because it is such a pain to do it in-game. We might consider using some other option or having the user rely on external software to remap the keys for the game.

There is an English option, yes! We have it in Portuguese and English and that can be changed in the Options menu.

Thank you for the feedback!

If you want access to our beta build, we would love to hear more feedback. Please join our discord server:
https://discord.gg/9h8ZaCZx

Roughly 15%. But exploration is a bit more challenging in the later parts of the game, so they might take more time than the beginning to complete.

Sorry for the delay, we're facing too many difficulties in our personal lives, but we organized ourselves to resume development this week after six or so months of break.

Thanks for the patience. For anyone interested in more details about the development, and to get access to our beta build (has all the features minus some adjustments and bug fixes), please join our discord server:

https://discord.gg/9h8ZaCZx

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Hi! Thanks for the support. We're struggling to complete the game, but we're still on track. There were newer builds, which are pretty much complete except for some minor bugs and adjustments, but we decided to release it only to a small group of beta testers.

If you would like to join our discord server: https://discord.gg/9h8ZaCZx . It would be a pleasure to share with you our latest build and gather feedback.

It is also in our plans to update the free demo both here and on Steam with all the updates we've made since we last published the current one. The content would be the same, but there are some level design and gameplay improvements.

Unfortunately, we're only mimicking the Game Boy aesthetic, but the game is actually developed with the Unity game engine. I'm not sure if the Analogue Pocket has standard x64/ARM support, but if it does, it would most likely run as our game is pretty light on resources.

However, if it only runs Game Boy ROMs, then it won't happen. We don't have the technical expertise to do that.

We just wrapped up the beta and we're now polishing the gameplay. We are actually introducing some new things even though we should be wrapping up the game hahaha

Our aim at the moment is Q3, more precisely July/August. Thanks a lot for following our work :) 

Sure! After the beta we'll take a closer look at the input, and I'll take the remaps into consideration. Thanks for letting us know!

Hi! Sorry for the delayed response.

Currently we only have our demo available. It can be downloaded for free but we accept any contributions to strengthen the further development of the game :)

Not sure why you can't see the download section, though. For me, it looks like this:

Wow, thanks a lot for recording a play-through! 

Hahahaha, did you figure out what they say?

Thanks a lot for playing our demo :)

Hello! Thanks a lot for playing our demo. 

We're aiming to release this early next year but since we develop this in our free time, we might have to review this schedule. However, we're getting quite close to having all the features implemented! 

We ran a closed alpha earlier this year and I hope we can run a closed beta soon. We'll keep you posted with another blog post :)

Thank you very much for playing our game! You were one of the few to find that secret treasure in which you have to break a brick in the wall while standing on a retractable platform :D

Sorry that the contents of the demo weren't clear, we will update our page to reflect that and also give a hint at what collectables you can find in it xD

We just watched your stream and we were wondering if you were able to play the game with a controller at some point. The intended behavior is that all connected devices should work and I noticed that the UI was using the Xbox controller buttons to explain the game's input. I guess the controller was recognized but the inputs were blocked for some reason. If that is not too much trouble, could you please describe your setup so we can try to reproduce the problem on our side?

Thanks! Yeah, it was accidental, we were preparing new screenshots due to our main character redesign. 
Thanks for the heads up!

Hello again!

We were able to debug the issue and apparently it was a bug related with the way we were building the game in Unity. The problem was posted to Unity's issue tracker and it will probably be fixed before we launch the final version of the game.

For now, we built the game using Mono and everything seems to be working! The game was being tested inside the Unity Editor before and this is why the gamepads seemed to be working. This time, the final build was fully tested and hopefully it will work for you too :)

It was tested in Mojave but I used an X360 wired controller, maybe there is something specific related to the XONE controller then. Are you by any chance using this driver?

Thank you very much for helping us with testing!

Hi Leo! We finally managed to implement our game inputs using the new Input System being developed by Unity. This system is still in beta stage so things might be buggy but, as far as we could test, controllers seem to be working just fine in all platforms (we tested with the wired 360 xbox controller and the wireless DualShock 4).

Please let us know if your gamepad is now working :)

Hey, thanks Camh! :)

Some of the screenshots are from later parts of the game, not featured in the demo. In the final version you will be able to find tools that allow swimming, breaking the super blocks and other actions.

Although you can't do all these things yet, you get a special message if you find all available items in the demo, so you'll know when you have found 100% of them. Some of them are pretty hard to find, though!

Oi, muito obrigado pelo comentário! :)

Vamos trabalhar no bug de abrir o mapa ao morrer e pretendemos publicar uma versão corrigida da demo em breve.

Sobre a tradução para português, como brasileiros, certamente queremos isso no jogo. Estamos trabalhando para traduzir os textos da demo e pretendemos publicar essa versão traduzida mais pro final do mês.

Abraço!

Hi, thank you very much for the feedback! I am sorry your controller didn't work :(

Maybe it was a little bit misleading to say that we supported the X360 controller. Actually, our game supports it just in the Windows platform.

For some weird reason, button mappings change according to the controller (even though PS4, X360 and XONE controllers have similar designs, 'Joycon Button 0' maps to different buttons in all of these controllers), the operating system and even according to the way it is connected to the computer (bluetooth or USB, for instance). 

This problem might be solved depending on the tools you're using or if you implemented all these possible mappings yourself. As we're using Unity, our possible solutions right now are: use the new Input System (beta), buy a plugin in the Unity Asset Store that solves the problem or figure out all the possible mappings and hardcode them in our game. We have the goal of using the new Input System but we couldn't make it work in time for the demo :(

That said, we'll work hard on fixing this issue as soon as possible and update the demo :) Hopefully, with the new Unity Input System, we will support all sorts of controllers in different platforms!

Inno Setup seemed great but, as far as we could understand, it was designed to create installers and we wanted our .exe file to simply run the game without any installation process.

Hi, thank you for playing our game! Glad you liked it :)

As for the '.exe', we basically created a self extracting executable. We tried to use 7z ,as it is free (as in freedom) software, but it was a bit hard to get it working so we ended up using winrar, as suggested by this guide. For Linux we used http://makeself.io/.

Finally, we couldn't find a way to do this for macOS so we just went with the zip file. Probably it didn't make sense to make an installable '.dmg' just for a demo.

Hello there!
We loved your gameplay video, it's very enlightening and will certainly help improving the level design!

Thank you so much for the feedback. Cheers!