i would love to make a small rougelike for Game Boy, something similar to Dragon Crystal. but i wouldn't know where to begin or if GB Studio could handle a project like that. i'm willing to learn C to program it but... i'd rather not lol
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C is fun! Don't let them scare you! I donno anything about coding for the GB, but I love to mentor folks.
unnnfortunately C is generally considered to be too complicated for the game boy. there is one (1) compiler that "works", but as i understand it it adds a fuckton of overhead to function calls and eats a lot of cycles and you don't have a lot of cycles to begin with. maybe that would be fine for a small project though i don't know. but most things made for the game boy have been written in straight assembly.
on the other hand you can compile c or rust or whatever you want to the gba, that's just arm
would pico-8 be a reasonable thing to recommend for somebody who wants that real 8 Bit Experience
it's kind of like the 8-bit experience but without the programming being totally fucking awful, yeah
how hard would it be for a complete beginner at coding to learn assembly
ooog probably pretty rough.
like on the one hand it's dead simple since there are only a handful of things you can even do: add, subtract, copy values around, stuff like that. on the other hand it's incredibly complicated because you have to make an entire video game out of add, subtract, copy values around, and there are a great many places where it is not obvious how to do that. you want to multiply? that's a whole thing
The GB Studio dev describes it as a "Gameboy RPG maker", so it sounds like a fair thing to try.