Comments on: Couple of questions about LD

By: Dakota

Dakota — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:17:05 +0000

Ok that’s not a problem either. It compiles to a .gba so all you would need to do is drop and drag it into the emulator. Also to compile the source may be a little harder but is still fairly basic.

By: digital_sorceress

digital_sorceress — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:30:08 +0000

As a guideline: make it as easy as possible for people to play your game.

That’s not just a courtesy… If people struggle to play your game (eg, because of your choice of platform/required frameworks/missing libraries/etc), that could put them in a bad mood, and that would likely be reflected subconsciously in the scores they give you

By: Dakota

Dakota — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:28:57 +0000

VBA-M is under GUN licensing so i’m sure I can just put a copy in with the final build also VBA is inactive atm and i would presume under the same license.

As for the source thats no problem its using devkitpro and not the offical GBA librarys so no legal issues and my code isn’t the best in the world so I dout anyone would have any use for it.

By: Vilborg

Vilborg — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:11:47 +0000

Do whatever lets you make the game you want, AND lets other people play it.

By: gkikola

gkikola — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:03:38 +0000

It might work out if you could package the game with an emulator, and make it easy to install and remove the whole package. But you would need to ensure that you had permission to distribute the emulator with your game. I’m not really familiar with the licenses of popular GBA emulators, but you could do some research.

By: MrPhil

MrPhil — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:31:03 +0000

It is going to be really hard on Judges if you can only play your game on Game Boy Advance.

Another concerns is you’ll need to share you code in advance of the compo, not sure if you want to do that.

XNA is probably the way to go.