Building only a simple game for PC or any of the latest Mobile-platforms (iOS, Android) can take month when you also have some sense for art and style. With a quiet old and restricted platform like the Gameboy, this is a nice thing to do in with limited time and good results. As one of the most popular tool-chains ( Rednex Gameboy Development System 358 295) is open-source and a comparably small project, this is hopefully not a month-long endeavor.Īnd I like doing game-development for fun anyway. Dev-Tools: Understanding how compiler and linker for this platform work and tinkering with it.Except for the CHIP-8 language, there are not many other processor that are this popular and have an as small instruction set. Compared to others, the instruction of the Z80 is “quiet” small. Emulators: Write a simple emulator for the Gameboy’s Z80 processor.As it happens, I still have my old Gameboy lying around… somewhere… Electrical Engineering: Building own game cartridges/ROMs, ROM-readers/writers and play around with other interfacing possibilities.Well, I found the old Gameboy to match that category: micro-processors/electrical-engineering, emulators, dev-tools. 357 294As I have gone more and more low-level over the past month, I was searching for a platform that is well understood/documented, not too fancy and thus allows me to use it for learning on different topics at once in a fun way.
