so much fun

Thanks MSX!

Great work. The game has improved a lot in the last update!

How do you upload a game to the Workshop?

this looks so gameboy and i love it

I recommend Aeprite.

The sprites look nice. What did you make them with?

One day a grander version than this may go Greenlight. I have the engine going in full color and wide screen rather than GameBoy resolution.

go greenlight?)

There are more misspellings :-) Play the game to the end.

game looks like its straight outta a gameboy good job. btw you spelled attacked incorrectly.

I've just uploaded the new version. Your two problems shouldn't be a problem and I was unable to replicate either problem with the old version. Please give it a try and thanks for reporting both issues.

Alright. I'll look into it. I've actually ported the entire game into a newer engine, I'm just not ready to show it off yet without new levels complete. I should be able to go into the old game which is the Workshop version and fix that issue.

And another one. This one happened when I pressed the back button in the options menu
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FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Draw Event
for object obj_MENU:

Unable to find any instance for object index '135' name 'obj_HUD'
at gml_Object_obj_MENU_Draw_73
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I didn't pick up anything. it just happened when I was walking around.

Well that's a new one. Thanks for reporting it. What were you collecting? Health or a weapon?

got an error:

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FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Event0
for object obj_COLLECTABLE:

Variable obj_player.<unknown variable>(100023, -2147483648) not set before reading it.
at gml_Script_scr_collected
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stack frame is
gml_Script_scr_collected (line 0)
gml_Object_obj_COLLECTABLE_Step_0

I really enjoyed this one, good job

Right now in the game the shotgun is the spread weapon and I think there are 3 shotguns in the game. The stun time in the game in the non uploaded version is 1 second and you have 1.5 seconds of invulnerability. The grenade launcher can now fire at 3 angles.

Here is a look at the next version of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2SceiizxcA

Different weapons for different shooting directions sounds like a good idea. I like how the grenade launcher shoots downwards. (I still think stun time is too long, and i feel stun direction should be away from the enemy, and not just backwards.)

They stun when they damage you. If it didn't stun you then you'd be able to run through the enemies. Seems like everyone wants shooting in every direction, but that would flat out break the game. Anyway the game has been remade where you can collect and use any weapon you have unless the ammunition runs out. I just haven't upload it.

In general I feel enemies should either stun your or damage you, but when's both it feels too punishing. Also more shooting directions, as some ppl refered. Otherwise, nice game :)

:) good

Very ver good game

Thanks Quen! We're making a sequel of sorts in color.

What a cool game!!very nice work!

Thanks Captain. That seems to be the consensus to add more directions to shoot. The next shooting game will probably have that ability.

maybe add a way to aim diagonally too, that would be fun since you can then add more moving targets that would be possible to hit

Lag and flicker too. I'm not sure how to simulate the GameBoy's processor with GameMaker. If I ever do I'll come back :-)

This was really cool, at points there would be some screen lag like in old scool games, too much on the screen slowing it down, but other than that really solid gameplay and tons of fun!!

Thanks for the support Zerios. The next game will be bigger... and in color. I'm thinking 4 selectable levels with final levels after that.

Dude i love this game very well made game and like we all will say keep it up and one day youl be known for it

Thank you both for reporting it. The issue is fixed now. When the new version is downloaded, please give it a try. I appreciate the error reports.

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Thanks. Its the same problem Forge had. I assume the game isn't saving the map file to your hard drive for whatever reason. I'll see what I can do to fix that.

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ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Event0
for object ob_castlemania:

Trying to draw non-existing sprite.
at gml_Object_ob_castlemania_Step_0
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Thanks for telling me Jalecko. Where does it crash for you and what is the crash report? I'm happy you totaly found spelling mistakes :-)

it crashes totaly and i saw a spelling mistake with ataced

wow this looks nice

Then the map isn't being generated, which is an interesting issue considering that skin and skinback are generated. All 4 of those .pngs are generated at the same time one after another. I'll get to the bottom of it, but otherwise the easiest fix would be stop it from making the .png files for maps.

Thank you again for sticking with it and trying it. I'll have a new update sometime today.

Thanks for testing. You never see the map correct? I think its crashing when it imports the actual game map. If you could go into your c:\users<\username>\appdata\local\alienvania\ folder for me and check to see if there is a map.png and a mapw.png These are the map files the game reads. If you don't have them, then the game isn't making the maps for you and we can go from there.

amazing!

Thanks for reporting the issue Forge. What were you doing to get that error?

Yeah color would be better, but that would defeat the purpose of a GameBoy game jam. How could the controls be better?

There are WSAD, arrow keys, quite a lot of buttons for shooting and jumping. Full controller support, D-pad and analog stick. Even controls to look up, down look further left and right. Its described in the pause menu.

That's a good game, nice work!
If the world be a colorful will be better, and the control feel may need a fine adjust to let it be better :)