Knight Owls
The sea devours the unwary. Summoning is an imprecise magic, but it is powerful enough to keep you safe. Go forth, and seek glory. Seek a new home!
Overview
Knight Owls is a new roguelike strategy game for the Game Boy Advance. Gather owls and upgrades while managing your health and money. Voyage through three enemy-filled zones, and defeat the final boss to win. But beware: Summoning magic is risky, and if you lose all your HP, you will have to start the game over from the beginning...
Feel free to leave harsh feedback; I'm interested in hearing people's honest opinions. Thanks for stopping by!
Current game version: Alpha 1.3
Install Instructions
The game is fully playable in-browser with a keyboard (no mouse required). But you can also download it and play it on a desktop emulator, or run it on an actual Game Boy Advance using a flash cartridge. The downloadable version is identical to the in-browser version, except it prompts the player to press A and B instead of X and Z.
There is currently no in-game way to mute the sound, so click the speaker icon in your browser tab if you wish turn off the game's sound.
Status | In development |
Platforms | HTML5 |
Author | blaise-rascal |
Genre | Strategy, Card Game |
Tags | Game Boy Advance, Roguelike |
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Development log
- Alpha 1.3 ReleaseJul 29, 2021
- Launch of In-Browser Version, and Alpha 1.2 ReleaseJul 28, 2021
- Alpha 1.1 ReleaseJul 26, 2021
- Alpha 1.0 Release / Jam PostmortemJul 17, 2021
- Source code & licenseJul 12, 2021
- RoadmapJul 09, 2021
Comments
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How is this made??
I used the butano game engine
https://github.com/GValiente/butano
My source code is here (though be warned, it's VERY messy)
https://github.com/blaise-rascal/KnightOwls
If you want to try out gbadev, the following discord server is a great place to talk shop:
Discord
Overall, it was a lot of fun for me to make this GBA game, but I don't think I'll ever do another GBA project, simply because the GBA sound card is terrible. I really don't want to go to the effort to figure out how to use it to make good-sounding music.
Finally beat it! Fun game, but it ended kinda early-- Herman the Merman makes a strange final boss XD
I'm glad you enjoyed the game! I drew the sprite for Herman early in the game's development, and then just never bothered making a different final boss, haha.
Please add a way to play this with no emulator, I don't know how to get mgba and I don't really want to get it either.
hi there! mgba is free & easy to download: https://mgba.io/downloads.html
as far as making the game playable without an emulator, that is certainly something I will look into. but it's tough; i'm just one person, and there are other things i'd like to work on with this game... only so many hours...
I understand, thanks!
It works in the browser now! Best of luck on this (difficult) game
Yay! I'll play it soon.