Trail Escape (Tiny Horse Game Jam)

Web Version 1.0 is  available!

This is the project page  for my Tiny Horse Game Jam submission.

The game is now finished! I ran into a lot of technical issues so this is a rather minimal game (only one trail available), but maybe I  will update it with more content in the future. I'm just glad  I made it in time!

 You can play this in your browser or download the ROM and use it with a GameboyColor/Gameboy Advance emulator or even put it onto an actual cartridge and play it on your real Gameboy.

Controls for the web version:

Z, Y = A

X = B

ARROW KEYS, WASD = DPAD

ENTER = START

SHIFT = SELECT

Known Issues/Bugs:

• text display can become glitched if you move the cursor too fast
• textboxes stick around in the background
• some screen flashing
• minor color palette glitches
• colors are rather dark on the ROM

Features:

• runs in browser and on GameboyColor hardware
• intro cutscene
• quick time event gameplay
• one trail ride (for now) with randomized number of dangers to encounter (0 to 3)
• scoreboard that saves summaries of your rides

Cartridge Requirements for the ROM:

If you want to use the ROM with a flash cartridge, you will need a MBC5 or MBC3 type cartridge that can either use battery saves (SRAM) or flash saves (FRAM). 

I use a BennVenn   MBC3 2MiB cartridge with 32KiB FRAM and the GBxCart RW v1.4b flasher to write it.