@The_T @wallhackio Not sure, ask @onfy , she is doing JavaScript stuff on the GameBoy...

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio

hey @onfy what the fuck

@The_T @vaporeon_ @wallhackio this was a misunderstanding i had, gb studio uses typescript to compile code for a gb vm (that's mostly c)

@onfy @The_T @wallhackio So the compiler is written in TypeScript?

@vaporeon_ @The_T @wallhackio i think this is the compiler https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio/tree/develop/src/lib/compiler
this is what runs on the game boy https://github.com/untoxa/gbvm

@The_T @vaporeon_ @wallhackio the interface itself is also eletron, but it runs a lot better than discord

@onfy @vaporeon_ @wallhackio GB Studio seems cool except that I've only ever seen one type of game get made with it so I don't know if that's a limitation of GB Studio or the people using it

@The_T @vaporeon_ @wallhackio what type is that

@onfy @vaporeon_ @wallhackio those vaguely RPG like games where it's an overhead perspective but not all of them are RPGs like idk like Survival Kids

but it all just seems way more tile-based than the kind of stuff Nintendo was putting out

@The_T @vaporeon_ @wallhackio the template game it ships has a sidescrolling platformer (that feels bad to play), a 1st person point n click, and seemingly a scrolling schmup i didn't get to try

you do have to take care of your tiles in it, but that seems to be a hardware limit? you import graphics as pngs...

@The_T @vaporeon_ @wallhackio i would like to make something that pushes what seems possible, but i have such limited skills myself...

@The_T @vaporeon_ @wallhackio i wanna make something good, argh, how the hell do i do that?

@onfy @vaporeon_ @wallhackio 🤷

@The_T @vaporeon_ @wallhackio i mean like, it's twofold
i have a greedy motive of wanting to make something i can sell, so i can get money from something
but i also want to make something that feels really special and accomplished! which probably helps with the previous point

@The_T @vaporeon_ @wallhackio here's something i learned
gb studio has a mode that moves you by tile (i assume that's what you meant by tile-based) but now also one that moves you by pixel

@onfy ok so the thing is, you're not going to sell a game boy game

@The_T itch.io is a website

@onfy and most GB games on it are free or have a handful of sales that are actually tied to bundles

@The_T it could be a really good game...

hell... i'm not even sure of my ability to make good graphics in 160x144 and 4 shades of grey, let alone a zillion pixels and colours, polygones...

@The_T i guess i could just give up my dream of amounting to anything and just try to do sex work