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Technically a year ago, are you waiting for your copy to ship? Or just hesitant to place a new order?

What exactly does the host of this event lose by de-listing the game? What goodwill are they burning with developers by taking such a harsh stance? I'm seeing a lot of fellow developers upset by this decision and reconsidering participating in the future compos.

Ok, so you've listed some ethical precedents. Yes, it's true that there are a lot of creators who are willing to license their products as shareware, but that doesn't mean that everyone has to. From an archivist perspective, I would much rather there be accurate records kept that acknowledge all entries, even if those entries aren't available to play anymore. I'm literally writing a book about homebrew games made during the early days of the internet, so I know how frustrating it can be for games to disappear to history.

But at the end of the day, it's about a creator wanting to protect their copyright in order to sell it. If the compo truly acknowledges that creators could want to turn their entries into commercial products, then they shouldn't stand in the way when creators want to.

Speaking of social contracts, I just think that non-developers shouldn't have such a demand on the free labor of creators. If they want access to a game, they should pay for it.

Yeah, I was looking into self publishing the game myself (I had a limited run with the first game), but things didn’t work out for various reasons. But it turns out the game is sold on AliExpress by bootleggers, so that’s probably where those copies came from. How they ended up at a thrift store I don’t know.

It’s a rip from a Koei game, so no, you’d have to do heavy modifications to use in commercial game. And I don’t know the original artist sorry

I thought the publisher would offer the ROM as a digital download, but i guess not. You can find the final game on Gamebrew (don't tell anyone I told you): https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Brookwood:_Pocket_Tactics_GB

I don't have a Discord for this game, or any of my games really. But I'd love to discuss this game either here, or you can PM me on Discord if you'd like (my handle is basically the same).

Somehow I think I know which convention you're taking about because they rejected my games too. But congrats on this achievement, my pirated games only sell for <$10 on Aliexpress!

Haha, good catch. Updated the files to be optimized

Thanks for letting me know! I'll have to check that out to fix the bug

They put it on hold indefinitely, sorry. Maybe sometime in the future I'll find a new publisher.

Yes, I'm pretty sure once the pre-orders are done they'll start selling the ROM as well.

Oh wow! Thank you so much! I don't speak German but there were English subtitles. Great video though

Not yet, but that's a great idea! I'll try and whip one up sometime soon

Well thank you! I just updated the file, thanks for catching that

Yeah absolutely!

Yeah, Incube8 decided to move forward with other projects. I am looking into selling physical copies in my Etsy store, hopefully soon. I'm trying to find the carts, but probably in a couple months.

Love the use of my Animal Villager sprites!

It's all events, a crazy series, but it works.

The game is 4MB in size, but only has 2-4 hours of play time, so they don't think it's profitable to sell a whole package (box, manual, etc.). They're thinking of eventually doing a "Incube8 Lite" series, where that sell games like this one as only carts.

It's about 99% done, just got a couple typos to fix. It was originally going to be released in December, but then my publisher (Incube8) decided to shelf it for now. They still want to release it, but don't have a timeline anymore :/

Sounds great! I'd love to see what you make!

Thanks so much! I love your pixel art tutorials!

Wowzas, this game is really good. I love the depth, the details, and the humor (the allusions to Faust and Paradise Lost are pretty cool). Not much to say, except I was looking for something like a Pokemon Center to heal my D-Mons for free (because buying Choco-bars and Bandaids gets expensive, especially when you can't battle to earn cash).

Ok, I feel really dumb, but I couldn't finish this game. I found 3 people I think, but the hide-and-go-seek game didn't end. Not sure what I was doing wrong, and I tried scouring the map to find the "end" but maybe I'm just stupid, I dunno.

Ok, so I know that this is just a part of the game you're developing (probably a level), but even then, it felt a little bare. As a platformer, there isn't much to do (no enemies to fight, no tricky jumps to make), so it feels more like a walking simulator. The atmosphere is really the strength of this game, with the visuals and the music.

Yeah, I had a fantasy about doing link cable vs mode. We'll see if they ever implement that

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This is a really cool concept! Holy cow, my mind is just reeling from the potential of a SRPG on the Gameboy Color. Great work!

Aw, thanks! I really wanted to capture a Retro-cute style for the game

Well thanks!

Yeah no problem!

Well thanks! I'm so glad you enjoyed it

Great game, a little tricky, but addicting!

Great game, a little tricky, but addicting!

Great game, fun concept, and just the right difficulty level! The music really pumps it up too

Great job making a puzzle game, it's really addicting. And much longer than I expected, good job!

Good job putting together something in the GB style. The controls are a little tricky to use in the game, and I think the second level glitched out on me. 

Wow, great job putting together a rhythm game! It's tricky at first to learn the controls, but once you get the hang of it it's pretty fun

I know that VBA has an option for emulating the original Gameboy, if that's what you're asking. There's a checkbox in one of the menus. 

Sure, all Holidays welcome!