NotImplementedLife / A-4D-Christmas

My first GBA game and also a GBA Winter Jam entry!

A 4D Christmas

All I want for Christmas is a playable GBA ROM...

Get the lastest version here.

The idea

GBA Winter Jam '21 is coming, so I made this little crappy GBA ROM. This will most probably be my last game released in 2021, and it's a very good chance to celebrate both the Christmas and almost 1 year of me being in the homebrew scene.

Being my very first GBA attempt, I opted for a rough bitmap-mode game with untidy source code. The player's mission is to drive Santa's sleigh in the 4^th dimension while shooting the dangerous plasma energy spheres. I admit my focus wasn't a very impressive gameplay (also the original idea was completely different than the final result, but that's another story :)) ).

I also want to do a (presumably serious) text-mode GBA game in the near future.

How to build

You must have devkitPro with libgba installed and present in your %PATH%.

git clone https://github.com/NotImplementedLife/A-4D-Christmas
cd A-4D-Christmas
make

Emulation

mGBA

• Enter Tools->Settings->Enhancements and set Video renderer to OpenGL to avoid any chances of emulation freezing.

Credits

• GValiente for hardware testing the ROM

Assets

• Sleigh sprite
• Explosion animation effect
• Title screen Christmas decoration
• Laser SFX
• Explosion SFX