https://github.com/eevee/anise-cheezball-rising
an exciting new adventure for the Game Boy Color
https://github.com/eevee/anise-cheezball-rising
8bit cats game game-2d gameboy-color indie indiedev indiegame retro retrogaming zelda-like
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an exciting new adventure for the Game Boy Color
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/eevee/anise-cheezball-rising
- Owner: eevee
- License: other
- Created: 2018-06-17T03:34:14.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-12-30T22:37:53.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-28T17:09:01.269Z (about 1 year ago)
- Topics: 8bit, cats, game, game-2d, gameboy-color, indie, indiedev, indiegame, retro, retrogaming, zelda-like
- Language: Python
- Size: 113 KB
- Stars: 78
- Watchers: 10
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 4
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.md
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README
# Star Anise Chronicles: Cheezball Rising
Hello! This is a brand new adventure game for the Game Boy Color. It's about my cat Anise, having adventures.
I'm also [writing about the entire development process in gratuitous detail](https://eev.ee/everything/tags/cheezball-rising/) on my blog, if you'd like to follow along!
## Playing
The canonical source for builds is [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/eevee/posts?tag=cheezball%20rising), where you can get access a _whole week early_ for only $4 a month! I may also upload builds [here](https://github.com/eevee/anise-cheezball-rising/releases), um, when I remember.
A Game Boy Color emulator is helpful! My favorite is [mGBA](https://mgba.io/) (I'm using [recent builds](https://mgba.io/downloads.html#development-downloads) of 0.7) — try loading the `gba-colors` shader for a more pastel aesthetic. Allegedly, [BGB](http://bgb.bircd.org/) is also good for Windows and [SameBoy](https://sameboy.github.io/) is good for Mac.
Of course, you could always play the game on actual hardware, too.
## Building
You will need:
- [rgbds](https://github.com/rednex/rgbds), the recenter the better
- Python 3 with Pillow installed
- `make`
Do the following:
```
make
```
Wow! You did it. 🎆 Enjoy!
(Actually, you probably didn't — currently I have some intermediate build assets that require manual intervention to actually get working. Sorry! I'll fix it soon. Or maybe I already did, but forgot I put this paragraph in the README.)
## Development
I'll gladly accept advice on idioms and errors and whatnot, but would prefer no non-trivial pull requests — I'd like to be able to account, personally, for every last byte in the finished game.
That said, [feel free](LICENSE.md) to use this as a base for something of your own! The following may be helpful:
- [awesome-gbdev](https://github.com/avivace/awesome-gbdev), a massive list of Game Boy dev resources
- the _official_ Nintendo [Game Boy Programming Manual](https://archive.org/download/GameBoyProgManVer1.1/GameBoyProgManVer1.1.pdf)
- the very helpful [Game Boy development wiki](http://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Main_Page), which often clarifies or corrects or expands upon the manual
- a compact table of [gbz80 opcodes](http://www.pastraiser.com/cpu/gameboy/gameboy_opcodes.html)
- rgbds's own [documentation](https://rednex.github.io/rgbds/)