what is this even

last year, I made an Emacs Lisp program that generated a Game Boy ROM. it wasn't much of a game though.

this year, I stepped it up and made an Emacs Lisp program that generates a Game Boy Advance game! it's actually a game this time, you can move around a little maze and play blackjack against sea creatures. I made a lot of it live on Twitch at twitch.tv/LCOLONQ!

where can i find the source

it's available on GitHub, and also in the attached tarball. it's living alongside the "engine" code (my assembler and other tools) - the code for this jam is all in the src/kalamari/ directory.

how do i play

you can use your favorite Game Boy Advance emulator! I tested using mGBA, but others likely work also. it probably also runs on real hardware but I haven't tested that yet either.

this isn't fun at all what the heck

it probably isn't! I cut it pretty close on time this time! there's no audio! yeah! there are a lot more things I want to do with it, but I feel very happy that there's anything at all :)