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-title: "Mara: Sh0rk of Justice: Version 1.0.0 Released"
-date: 2020-12-28
-tags:
- - gameboy
- - gbstudio
- - indiedev
----
-
-Over the long weekend I found out about a program called [GB Studio](https://www.gbstudio.dev).
-It's a simple drag-and-drop interface that you can use to make homebrew games for the
-[Nintendo Game Boy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy). I was intrigued and I had
-some time, so I set out to make a little top-down adventure game. After a few days of
-tinkering I came up with an idea and created Mara: Sh0rk of Justice.
-
-[You made a game about me? :D](conversation://Mara/hacker)
-
-> Guide Mara through the spooky dungeon in order to find all of its secrets. Seek out
-> the secrets of the spooks! Defeat the evil mage! Solve the puzzles! Find the items
-> of power! It's up you to save us all, Mara!
-
-You can play it in an `<iframe>` on itch.io!
-
-<iframe frameborder="0" src="https://itch.io/embed/866982?dark=true" width="552" height="167"><a href="https://withinstudios.itch.io/mara-sh0rk-justice">Mara: Sh0rk of Justice by Within</a></iframe>
-
-## Things I Learned
-
-Game development is hard. Even with tools that help you do it, there's a limit to how
-much you can get done at once. Everything links together. You really need to test
-things both in isolation and as a cohesive whole.
-
-I cannot compose music to save my life. I used free-to-use music assets from the
-[GB Studio Community Assets](https://github.com/DeerTears/GB-Studio-Community-Assets)
-pack to make this game. I think I managed to get everything acceptable.
-
-GB Studio is rather inflexible. It feels like it's there to really help you get
-started from a template. Even though you can make the whole game from inside GB
-Studio, I probably should have ejected the engine to source code so I could
-customize some things like the jump button being weird in platforming sections.
-
-Pixel art is an art of its own. I used a lot of free to use assets from itch.io for
-the tileset and a few NPC's. The rest was created myself using
-[Aseprite](https://www.aseprite.org). Getting Mara's walking animation to a point
-that I thought was acceptable was a chore. I found a nice compromise though.
-
----
-
-Overall I'm happy with the result as a whole. Try it out, see how you like it and
-please do let me know what I can improve on for the future.