go-gopher-gba

This repo contains a simple game (yes, very very very simple game) for Game Boy Advance (GBA) in Go, with a basic code organization.

We use:

• TinyGo
• TinyFont
• TinyDraw
• Gopher font (thanks @rakyll <3)

Please read the Learning Go by examples: part 5 - Create a Game Boy Advance (GBA) game in Go article in order to know more about this Git repository.

General

This simple app/game run on Game Boy Advance portable console and:

• display a screen with "Gopher" text and "Press START button"
• display two gophers
• When you press START button: your Gopher player just appear
• With multi directionnal arrows you can move your Gopher at left, right, top or bottom
• When you press A button: your Gopher jump :-D
• When you press SELECT button, you go back to "Start" screen

Pre-requisites

Install Go in 1.16 version minimum.

Install TinyGo.

Install mGBA emulator.

or:

Run the app (during development)

$ tinygo run -target=gameboy-advance gopher.go
tinygo:ld.lld: warning: lld uses blx instruction, no object with architecture supporting feature detected

Build the app

$ tinygo build -size short -o bin/gopher.elf -target=gameboy-advance gopher.go; mv bin/gopher.elf bin/gopher.gba

or

$ task build

Test the app/game

Let's run our app on mGBA emulator:

$ mgba bin/gopher.gba

mGBA Controls

Controls are configurable in the settings menu of mGBA. Many game controllers should be automatically mapped by default. The default keyboard controls are as follows:

A: X
B: Z
L: A
R: S
Start: Enter
Select: Backspace