#159 - Da_Bob - Sat Jan 04, 2003 1:43 am
Right, I know this board is early so I think everyone needs to be introduced to everyone else. So here goes nothing....
Hi, I'm Bob of Slough (London), UK. My past-times include drinking, travelling, reading, ripping apart computers and of course programming. I see the GBA as a final way into the game dev industry, as it's the only current console in which a person can hack together a good game without having millions of pounds and a team ;) No expensive grafix here, which is great coz I don't do 3D grafix...
Feel free to introduce yourself in this thread. I hope this place becomes the start of a beautiful community :D or summin like that anyway ^_~
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#180 - J-Rod - Sat Jan 04, 2003 4:39 pm
[quote="Da_Bob"] I see the GBA as a final way into the game dev industry, as it's the only current console in which a person can hack together a good game without having millions of pounds and a team.[/quote]
Don't forget about cellular platforms. IMHO, the GBA is actually a pretty tough market to crack commercially. It almost seems like the publishers don't want to touch a 3rd party title unless it has a license attached to it, such as a movie or cartoon and whatnot. Just my .02
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#183 - Daikath - Sat Jan 04, 2003 8:47 pm
Im Win Schutten (known in Counter Strike as Win Laden ;)). Im 18 years old and my hobbies are (learning to) programming, movies, games, Buffy & Angel and of course designing games. I plan to really learn how to program on the GBA before I maybe move onto cellular phones and stuff like that if I dont make it on the GBA itself (got some ideas for what I think are killer games though).
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#190 - imikeyi - Sun Jan 05, 2003 12:26 am
I'm 19 year old Michael from Sydney. I program the GBA because I discovered the NES dev scene _way_ to late ;-) . I'm not a good games programmer at all (I don't have the creativeness) so I spend my time programming system based stuff (a small gba kernel for example).
#192 - sod - Sun Jan 05, 2003 1:26 am
My name is Mikael, 22 years old, from Sweden.
I'm studying "Software Development" concentrating on OOP languages in a school that's somewhat equal to a university. Kinda ironic since I loathe Cpp. But they say that oop is the languages of the future.. or something like that.. In my sparetime I fiddle with ASM coding for c64 and GBA. Otherwise I play the guitar and sing in a gothmetal band.
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#197 - Sean - Sun Jan 05, 2003 2:32 am
I'm Sean. 15, from the USA, and love programming on platforms like GBC/GBA. I'm currently programming an open-source game-engine (http://osrpg.sourceforge.net/) and a map editor (http://osrpg.sourceforge.net/images/mapstudio.jpg)
#206 - Burre - Sun Jan 05, 2003 4:08 am
Hi everyone!
My name is Johan Burell and I'm 19 yrs old. I live in Sweden (in a suburb to Stockholm) and study programming and computerscience at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) http://www.kth.se. On my sparetime I usually hang out with friends, code, compose music, study and writes gamereviews for http://www.hype.se. Begun programming at the age of 12 using QBasic (well, who hasn't?) and continued with C/C++, Java, PHP, SQL, VB (only briefly) as the years went by. Have had Nintendo machines in my home ever since the NES saw the light of day and have spent countless hours with them in front of the telly. So therefore I got especially exited when I got hold of a FLA and a GBA. Gfx coding have never been so fun :). So now I'm involved in two gamedev projects, one on the GBA (as programmer) and one on the PC (as soundengineer/musician).
I'm a frequent reader of this excellent site, so therefore I'm exited to what benefit this "waterhole" for gameprogrammers could bring to the scene.
Last but not least, greets to all my fellow coders out there! ;)
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#207 - Dragonsimoto - Sun Jan 05, 2003 4:24 am
umm.....
im 17 from Quad Cities, IL. I am a senior in High School. Wrestling is my favorite sport, only started it last year since the coach is an ex-SEAL. I enlisted in the US Navy this summer. I ship out Jun 11th 2003, will go through boot camp then goto A school as a I.T. After that i will ship to San Diego, CA for BUD/S. SEAL Training 6 months of Hell :) Today I just about upset a ranked kid in wrestling in our state...but got pinned moments later...record thus far is 4-13...last year was 8-24... I wrestle at 112lbs....and 5'9"....ive yet to meet someone as tall as me at my weight.
I love learning....dont do much with what i learn but once i can get organized (a few years from now....settled into a home, etc) i will be game deving for many years.
Hope to attend DigiPen IT after my navy time.
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#231 - SamX - Sun Jan 05, 2003 11:40 am
Slough is not London, Slough is Royal Berkshire! Remember where you're from ;) Oh, I'm from Maidenhead but only Da_Bob will know where that is I expect. But it's in Berkshire which is very near London for anyone but Da_Bob.
I'm 16 in about a month, so we'll call it that. I just started reading The Pern Project tutorials about three days ago and it's a lot of fun. My past-times include games & everything to do with them, reading, watching DVDs, and putting off working on my GCSEs, for which I am behind in most courseworks :S.
I plan to create lots of stupid games on the GBA before hopefully creating a beat-em-up game. (or something, I will change my mind on beat-em-up everyday until I actually start a proper game...)
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#297 - DSims - Mon Jan 06, 2003 2:15 am
Hi,
My name is Dave Sims, I'm 18 from Limerick, Ireland. I've been programming since I was about 10. I'll hopefully be starting college this September, to try and get myself a degree in Software Engineering or some other field of computing. Love the GBA, but I haven't had sufficient time to produce anything. I work part-time in the IT dept of a German owned comany. That's me.
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#326 - Indecisive - Mon Jan 06, 2003 12:25 pm
Hello.
I'm James Prestwood, 21. Currently studying Robotics and Automated Manufacture at Sussex University. Final year.
I've been programming as a hobby for some time. Started on a BBC Master. Now I've got my MBV2 cable on its way (currently in the Phillipines I think).
I started with the Pern Project tutorials too. Working on a tactical shooter at the moment. Which I may or may not finish. I hope I do.
#328 - Da_Bob - Mon Jan 06, 2003 2:32 pm
Hehe, if you live in America then Slough is just about london :P If you live in maidenhead, then you'll know he difference between old windsor and runnymede ;) The point is, people don't know slough, and rightly so. If you were telling people about england, I don't think you'd mention slough ^_~
hat school do you go to then mate?
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#335 - SamX - Mon Jan 06, 2003 5:14 pm
Cox Green, you know it?
Slough's the place where Mars bars are made, everyone should know Slough! :) But I see your point. I read some survey on the BBC site or something and most Americans thought the UK was an arab country...
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#347 - Lord Graga - Mon Jan 06, 2003 6:48 pm
Hey All.
::CURRENTLY::
My name is Jacob, i'm 14 years old, and i'm from eastern Denmark. My hobbies are programming (GBA) and playing wargames with my friends. I like "fantasy metal", like Blind Guardian and Sonata Artica. Right now i am in a shitty school with dumb kids (not me) and dumb teachers, which slows the learning process down a lot! I am currently trying to move to a private school.
::PROGRAMMING HISTORY::
It all started when i burrowed a old book in the library, probably from 1990 (i was 11 or 12). It had a small code snippet for a PONG game, written in BASIC for C64 machines (it think). My brother had just burrowed a 8 mhz computer from my dads work, just for fun. I discovered that it had BASIC installed and i tried the code. But BASIC wasn't very well done and it had a horrible interface, so i closed it down... Then i found QBasic with some sample programs like gorilla, etc. I quickly learned small things like CLS, PRINT, INPUT, IF, GOTO and how to use string and number variables. Then i burrowed another book from the library about C++, that didn't learn me a shit, so i smacked it away and burrowed a QBasic book, which learned me a lot.
I spent a lot of time with QBasic and other small things, actualy too long time. Then in 2002 Q2 i bought a GBA and tried to learn how to program C. It was hella easy to learn, and i think it is funnier to play around with it on GBA than on PC's. And after half a year i finaly figured out how to use a sprite :P
Then i wanted to learn mapping, and it took a long time too...
But now i think i have all the basics, so i can quickly follow everything up and make some good games...
That is it :P
#349 - snug - Mon Jan 06, 2003 7:31 pm
My name is Adam. I'm 22 and I'm located in Montreal, QC, Canada. I work in Information Technology as a programmer/analyst and web developer. I'm hoping to get out of IT and into the video game industry so I've started developing a GBA game which I am going to attempt to get published when it's complete.
In my spare time I DJ, write electronic music (mostly drum & bass), and of course work on the GBA project. If there's anyone out there who wants to help with the project (I could really use a level designer), feel free to drop me a line.
#354 - fessor - Mon Jan 06, 2003 8:17 pm
Hi all!
My name i Kenneth, 22 years old, currently living in Denmark.
The last 5 years i've been working professionally with webdevelopment, PDF development and all other such odd stuff you come across when working at an advertising agency :)
My hobbies include coding,windsurfing and finally the joy an pride of my life, a 17 year old french car ( Peugeot 205 ) which i've rebuilt/tuned from skratch.. ( and yes, it's actually road legal :))
I used to do alot of demo coding on the amiga back in the days, so im kinda hoping the demoscene will kick off on the GBA
Been coding on the GBA since 24/12-02 when my girlfriend gave it to me along with a flash linker kit ( Thanks honey! :))
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#361 - snug - Mon Jan 06, 2003 8:51 pm
| fessor wrote: |
Been coding on the GBA since 24/12-02 when my girlfriend gave it to me along with a flash linker kit ( Thanks honey! :))
|
You lucky bastard :)
#363 - fessor - Mon Jan 06, 2003 9:04 pm
Yeah I know :)
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#375 - Badut - Tue Jan 07, 2003 1:50 am
Hi All, My name is Vin, from Melbourne Australia.
Just became interested in writing software for the GBA. Probably try my hand at writing and testing on emulators for now. I'll get a flash cart later ;)
BTW: what's the best place to get a Flash Advance if you live in Melbourne. Anyone know? I'm considering buying a TV tuner too... I havent seen any retail stores that stock either of them.
#405 - Sweex - Tue Jan 07, 2003 2:08 pm
Oh well, can't stay behind can I?;)
I'm Mike (Michiel to be precise, but since nobody can pronounce it, call me Mike!:), 23 years old and currently living in England. (Born in the Netherlands btw.) I'm a game programmer, and just got a gamecube devkit to "play" with...
At home I'm coding some stuff for the GBA... By "some stuff" I mean games, but I never have (read: make!) time to do alot, so I've got nothing more than a nice wrapper around all graphic functionality... But hey, maybe in 2010 I'll actually finish something!;-)
Cheers!
#458 - JasperW - Tue Jan 07, 2003 9:18 pm
Hello everybody,
My name's Jasper, I'm 21 years old and I'm from the Netherlands. I'm currently halfway through getting a BS & MS in Mechanical Engineering and in my spare time I like to program.
I've been working on a source level debugger for the GBA that plugs into MS Visual C++ 6.0 but I've kind of lost interest in that... So now I'm trying out some game ideas but nothing definite yet...
Jasper
#490 - grumpycat - Wed Jan 08, 2003 3:14 am
Hi, I'm Grumpy Cat.
I just released my first GBA effort, "Thrust" a couple of days ago. I hope you like it.
It all started in the 80s with the ZX 81 and Sinclair BASIC. Then came the ZX Spectrum and Z80 assembler, then the Atari 800 and 6502 assembler. After that came the Atari ST and 68000 assembler. I spent my teens writing skeleton games (proofs of concept) for all these platforms before going to University and getting a real job.
My favorite arcade games are "Defender", "Dig Dug", "Mr Do!" and "Asteroids".
My favorite ZX Spectrum game is "Manic Miner".
My favorite Atari 800 games are "Rescue on Fractalus", "Bounty Bob Strikes Back" and "Dropzone".
My favorite Atari ST games are "Thrust", "Xenon", "Carrier Command" and "Elite".
My favorite PC games are "Half-Life", "Counter-Strike" and "MS Flight Simulator 2002".
I like the Gameboy Advance because, as an 80s-style platform, it's once again possible for a solo developer to build something that doesn't look too out of place with professional titles.
Grumpy.
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#491 - notron - Wed Jan 08, 2003 3:38 am
Hi guys,
My name is Henry and I live in Houston, Texas. I am new to GBA development but not to Hardware and Software. If you must know the truth, I am retired after a 32 year coporate career and now spend my time developing SW. I program in most current languages C/C++/ASM/VB. I starting programming in ASM over 30 years ago while completing my Engr degree. ( Okay, you can all now stop laughing at my age!)
Well, enough of that. I am an avid gamer ( turn based strategy/RPG mostly). I introduced my son to computers when he was 6, and he just graduated from college and is now seeking a Game Designer job. We build our own computers as a hobby ( just finished an AMD 2600 machine that is a screamer!)
I am currently learning GBA in order to port games from other platforms to it. I sense that there will be a big change in the handheld market in the next couple of years due to Cellphones and PDA's becoming bigger items.
You'll be seeing a lot of me on here during my learning curve phase.
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#500 - nbsp - Wed Jan 08, 2003 5:10 am
May as well join in the party... :)
I'm Josh. I'm 26 from the USA (so I guess I'm in the old person group). I've been fiddling with the GBA for quite awhile now, but never anything hardcore. I keep trying to find time to code a game I've designed for the PC (using SDL), but my time is somewhat tapped out and it's a pretty big project.
I'm bad for lurking though, so I guess none of this matters...
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#550 - Da_Bob - Wed Jan 08, 2003 6:31 pm
Ahahaha! An arab country? Forkin hell. Americans O_o and my nan lives in cox green! Hehe, and yes, I wake up to chocolatey smells in the morning :D And the guy next door works there. Freebies ;)
Now if you tell me you go to Cox Green school or Altwood, I will be very scared ;)
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#661 - Lanza - Thu Jan 09, 2003 2:58 pm
I'm french, 26 years old, and currently web developper.
I never released anything yet, but I've playing with GBA registers for more than one year now. I just can't free enough time to finish anything.
Before the GBC/GBA I was an amiga addict and I found in the N's handhelds the same kind of possibilities.
I am currently working on a GBA game...
Hope my english is not too bad. :)
#665 - Lord Graga - Thu Jan 09, 2003 3:30 pm
I want to have the name henry too! it is SO cool!
#717 - ampz - Thu Jan 09, 2003 11:15 pm
I'am 23, I study Computer Systems Engineering at HH in sweden.
I do GBA hardware (different flash cart designs, the keyboard hack, ...), but I've done a few software demos/games as well.
I don't have that much time to do GBA stuff nowdays since I'am working on other projects too. (TI DSP image processing hardware, 50MHz ARM7 dev platform, RG LED display, ....)
I also work part time at HH.
And I need some time for my studies as well... :)
#800 - Da_Bob - Fri Jan 10, 2003 7:21 pm
Hehe, well, looks like a nice little troup for the community here. Is there an IRC channel for this place yet?
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#809 - Lord Graga - Fri Jan 10, 2003 7:49 pm
Da_Bob: #gbadev on EFnet
#810 - Burre - Fri Jan 10, 2003 7:51 pm
Is it just me or are there a lot of Swedish people (and other scandinavian habitants) on this board? Coincidence?
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#812 - Lord Graga - Fri Jan 10, 2003 8:07 pm
Yeah, there is.
We should have a expo in Sweden some day :)
#814 - luna_s - Fri Jan 10, 2003 8:34 pm
cos they dont sleep ;p !!!!!
#934 - Splam - Sun Jan 12, 2003 4:11 pm
Ok, here goes.
Pete aka Splam aka JCB (for c64 stuff)
I'm 34 (well, 10 days after this post so I may as well get used to it now) and live in the UK (currently west Wales).
Started coding basic and asm on the bbc micro, so long ago I can't remember what year it was. Went on from there to do spectrum and (mostly) c64 stuff. Started a c64 demo group (The Meanteam) and did about 40 demos for Compunet (UK bbs type thing, hard to explain if you never used it or don't know about the c64 "scene") won best demo writer 2 years in a row :)
Got hired as a games coder by a local company and have been doing it ever since, ~15 years now as a coder + a producer. I've worked for companies like Philips (I was an R&D coder on their CD-i system, basically writing optimised code to make the most of it) and EA (producer there) and various indipendent companies coding on everything form speccy/c64, amiga, st, snes, megadrive, Mac, PC, CD-i, PSX, 3D0 etc etc.
I'm currently writing a couple of emulators and games for GBA and various tools for PC as well as 1 emulator for PC (which is currently on hold), also sorting out some new members for the Meanteam to do some new demos (after doing nothing on that machine for 15+ years, but the scene is still alive and it's still my favourite ).
#941 - subbie - Sun Jan 12, 2003 5:27 pm
I guess I just fallow everybodys lead.
Hi I am brian from montreal, canada (im american though).
I am 19, I work for a local video game company on a few comercial projects for gba & psx. I have been a part of the gba hobbyist scene since the gba was first shown off at spaceworld (we only talked back then). I have a few freeware gba games & demos to my name (under the nick subice) & 1 commercial gba game to my name. I have not released anything for quite some time so hopefully I will be getting a new freeware gba game out this month. Hope you all enjoy it.
#1046 - Arek the Absolute - Tue Jan 14, 2003 1:37 am
I'm a strictly self-taught programmer who found his way onto the GBA after realizing how futile it was for one programmer and one artist to create a DirectX game.
I frequent the Console and PDA forum on Gamedev.net, and in all honesty you're probably more likely to find me there. The GBA independant development community is small, however, so I figured I'd at least keep my eye on this forum as well. I'll try to help out wherever I can, and hopefully you all will do the same!
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#1128 - Shawn - Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:11 pm
Hello everyone. My name is Shawn and I live in the US in Florida. I just started looking into some GBA programming. I have fiddled with it before but am looking to really get into it.
I am a CS major at university and am hoping to get into the game development field when I graduate.
#1270 - AndyM - Thu Jan 16, 2003 2:11 am
Hi all,
I'm Andy from Sheffield in the U.K. I'm 22 and work for a well known ISP's support department. My aim is to leave my job to be a professional games developer, I've got one small project being published on the PC written in Blitzbasic and am now learning GBA coding in HAM.
I'm a big gamer and am currently playing Time splitters 2 on PS2, GTA Vice City, again on PS2, and TFC on PC.
#1345 - gz - Thu Jan 16, 2003 9:54 pm
Hi people!
I'm not to much of a coder. never touched asm or basic (ok i played gorilla once ;). I've done a little php, javascript, have pascal in school and wrote a 3d tetris while trying to learn c++/ogl. I'm from Poland (that's a country in E and almost in the EU).
so! of to the coding forum to use your knoledge and share my ingorance ;)
(excuse my eng)
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#1357 - PeterP - Fri Jan 17, 2003 12:01 am
Hello,
I'm Peter and I'm 26 years old.
After failing miserably to become a rockstar and realizing that I have to make some money to somehow to pay the rent, I started to program games for a company here in Gothenburg, Sweden. The first game I did there was actually made in a program called Klik&Play (similar to Director). =) A kind of bizzare experience compared to C++.
Then after a few years I moved to Australia to work for a game company there. Much nicer weather but lots of dangerous animals. After spending three years trying to teach the Aussies how to pronounce my sirname (Pettersson) I gave up and moved back home to Sweden.
Nowadays I'm spending my days working on a massive online RPG for PC, but it's always a bit frustrating to work on a big project with millions of lines of code and 30 programmers (not really, but close =) )... so I relax by coding a very simple game on the GBA at home... Back to basics, almost like my old Vic20. :)
Cheers!
#1449 - JonH - Sun Jan 19, 2003 12:19 am
ah right, just seen this so i thought i might as well introduce myself! ;) I'm JonH, 21, originally from Norfolk, UK (home of Alan Partridge) but currently studying for a Multimedia Technology degree in Huddersfield (oop north like! its dirty up here!).
anyway, i got interested in games with the first Game & Watch LCD games, then to the c64 where i started to create my own stuff with basic and stuff like GAC and SEUCK :) then the amiga came and lit up my world with all those flashy colours and slick blitters! found the demoscene and PD scene, started to code a bit of AMOS and blitzbasic before starting up a little PD library within the school with a bunch of mates. then everything moved to Windows, although i still kept all me old computer gear, pc just wasn't the same. Joined a demo group (CoolPHat team in case anyones interested!), coded some pc musicdisks and intros before discovering the joys of the GBA.
got the gba when it was first launched, but waited a bit before getting the Flash Linker. Now i'm working on an Artificial Intelligence based GBA project for my final year degree thesis, and making everyone on the course go WOW when i bring my GBA in every friday to show my progress ;)
Currently trying desperately hard to get into the handheld gaming industry, which is no easy task these days. I even offered to work for free but no one was willing to give me a shot! Currently in talks with a small PocketPC game developer to work on some music for an up and coming game title. Got any jobs going, then let me know! ;)
check out the site if you wanna know more... http://zap.to/gbaproject
laters!
#1820 - peebrain - Thu Jan 23, 2003 6:04 pm
I'm Sean, a 19 year old University of Georgia junior. I like programming for GBA (mainly C/C++, but a little ARM), and Windows via MSVC++6.0 and MFC. In my spare time I work on my site, www.psipog.net. Actually, I work on my site full time, and in my spare time I program for GBA etc... :-P.
~Sean
#1860 - liveunderwater - Fri Jan 24, 2003 5:25 pm
Hello, Im 21 and from Chicago. I am a film/animation major specializing in stop motion animation. I build sets, characters, armatures, and everything else. I also do still photography, fine art, black and white, and even some color. Ive been programing for around 8 years and have always loved trying to program the things I can carry around with me.(stupid TI graphing calculators, etc) I script for video capture frame bursts and for using filters for relay shots(thats what I call them, but it is a video camera connected to a video input on a computer, and then I script out what I want it to do)
#1912 - SmileyDude - Sat Jan 25, 2003 5:44 pm
hello -- I'm a 26 (soon to be 27) year old living in the Boston area with my wife and 3 kids. I'm currently between work, but I normally work as a C/C++/Java programmer during the day.
At night, I like to hack around on my OS X box and GBA. Currently, I am working on drivers for the XG and Visoly USB linkers for OS X. What started as a simple little project has now taken me into writing code for the 8051 processor that's embeded in both of these things :) Eventually, I hope to get back to actually programming for the GBA, but for now, I'm happy to work on this :)
I've also done some stuff for the GBA in my spare time -- you can see the little bit that I've released at http://munsie.dhs.org/gba_code.
Anyway, you can usually find me hanging around at the emuholic.com boards, or on IRC (#emuholic, #gcdev, sometimes #gbadev -- efnet) as smilydude.
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#1921 - Robin - Sat Jan 25, 2003 9:03 pm
Hi, my name's Robin (makes it easy to get unique forum names :) ), I'm doing a BSc in Computer Science at Exeter Uni in the UK. I'm in my final year and I've convinced them to let me do some GBA programming for my major project, so here I am.
My project is making a GBA RPG maker. To explain more, it's a PC RPG maker (written in Java) that outputs the data entered by the user into a base RPG engine written in C++ which is compiled into a GBA binary. I start coding this week and have until the end of April to finish it, but I've done all the design already (I hope!) so it should be fun.
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