{"id":92,"date":"2021-11-28T12:13:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T12:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=92"},"modified":"2021-11-29T18:57:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T18:57:24","slug":"golden-sacra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2021\/11\/28\/golden-sacra\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Sacra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\"><strong>Technologies used:<\/strong>&nbsp;Z80 language, RGBDS, GBTD, GBMB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-incrustado wp-block-embed-incrustado\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"github-embed github-embed-repository github-logo-mark\">    <p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Egenad\/GoldenSacra\" target=\"_blank\">\t\t\t<strong>\t\t\t\tRPG game made in Z80 Assembly for the original GameBoy\t\t\t<\/strong>\t\t<\/a>\t\t<br>        <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Egenad\/GoldenSacra\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/github.com\/Egenad\/GoldenSacra<\/a><br>        <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Egenad\/GoldenSacra\/network\" target=\"_blank\">0<\/a> forks.<br>        <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Egenad\/GoldenSacra\/stargazers\" target=\"_blank\">0<\/a> stars.<br>        <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Egenad\/GoldenSacra\/issues\" target=\"_blank\">0<\/a> open issues.<br>        <details open>            <summary>Recent commits:<\/summary>            <ul class=\"github_commits\">                                    <li class=\"github_commit\">                        <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Egenad\/GoldenSacra\/commit\/a39903c9d004ee68f14b46499eeb75d3152de1fb\" target=\"_blank\">mastermaster commit<\/a>, Angel Terol                    <\/li>                            <\/ul>        <\/details>    <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Golden Sacra is an adventure, RPG or nethack game, for the original Game Boy, which<br>is influenced by titles such as <strong>Pok\u00e9mon Mystery Dungeon<\/strong> or <strong>Shiren the Wanderer<\/strong>.<br>The game works by turns: there will be a turn for player action and another for each enemy.<br>Each time we attack, move or use an object, our turn will be consumed. The gameplay is<br>mainly developed inside a dungeon, composed of different floors that we can access thanks<br>to some stairs that can be found in each one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is done <strong>entirely in assembly language or Z80<\/strong>, from scratch. As a final defree project, this took around 11 months to be developed. Not only because of the difficulty of the language, but also the fact of programming in a totally <strong>unknown environment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the beggining, I started with small goals, like just showing one sprite, animate it and making it move. No physics or collisions check for the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some improvements I made with the scroll ^^ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UAGames?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UAGames<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GBDev?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GBDev<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UAGameDev?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UAGameDev<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wyFOSfqOrG\">pic.twitter.com\/wyFOSfqOrG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u00c1ngel Jes\u00fas Terol (@angeljterol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/angeljterol\/status\/1143599097569599488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As months passed I was able to implement the basic logic of the game, as well as some enemies, transitions, some random audio and menu popups. There was a huge problem though: the game was way <strong>too slow<\/strong>. For that reason I spent some months reprogramming the entire project, from an <strong>Object Oriented<\/strong> to an <strong>Entity-Component-System<\/strong> archquitecture. In the following twits you can appreciate the difference in performance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hello! Long time since last update ^^U Here&#39;s the actual state of the project:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UAGameDev?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UAGameDev<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UAGames?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UAGames<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GBDev?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GBDev<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/8bit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#8bit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ETDatQeC7K\">pic.twitter.com\/ETDatQeC7K<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u00c1ngel Jes\u00fas Terol (@angeljterol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/angeljterol\/status\/1243972500423393282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost all that was left to do was to improve the graphics and add some real sounds. Even though I couldn&#8217;t finish all the goals I had in mind since the start, I think I got a great small game overall. In the future I&#8217;ll probably continue to develop it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Golden Sacra - Game Boy Homebrew - Demo Gameplay\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N1iqpnwuTiQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technologies used:&nbsp;Z80 language, RGBDS, GBTD, GBMB Golden Sacra is an adventure, RPG or nethack game, for the original Game Boy, whichis influenced by titles such as Pok\u00e9mon Mystery Dungeon or Shiren the Wanderer.The game works by turns: there will be a turn for player action and another for each enemy.Each time we attack, move or&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2021\/11\/28\/golden-sacra\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Leer m\u00e1s &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Golden Sacra<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}