Capybara Village
A cozy little capybara-themed game
This game was Created for the Game Boy Color and runs on original hardware. However you can also play the game with the web player above. Find more information about the controls below.
Made in 3 days for the Cozy Spring Jam.
| Keyboard Controls | Game Boy Controls | |
|---|---|---|
| Move | Arrow Keys | D-Pad |
| Confirm | Z / J | A |
| Back | X / K | B |
| Menu | Enter | Start |
| ... | Shift | Select |
(If the web player does not register your inputs, try clicking into the web once more)
- Enjoy the serene Capybara Village
- Go on explorations to find items
- Sell items to local shops
- Buy / find new costumes for your capybara
- Buy / find new furniture for your home
I did not even come close to implementing all of my ideas within the 3 days of the game jam. Here are a couple of things I might change / add in the future:
- Completely different story: Your grandmother told you about the beautiful village she lived in as a child. After she passed away you want to visit the village, but find it deserted and in ruins. So you decide to rebuild the village. Rebuilding the village requires the items you find on explorations.
- Allowing to meet new capybaras on your explorations and to invite them to your village. With new villagers new features are unlocked.
- Making explorations more challenging
- Building a proper shop system that lets you select which items to sell
- Changing up the stock of the shops in the village from time to time
- Adding a cute little card game you can play with your villagers
- Creating a larger variety of areas to explore with new items to find
- Farming
- Adding a day/night cycle
- Potentially adding seasons (?)
- Maybe adding different weather (???)
- More outfits, even full-body costumes
- More furniture, even some with functionality (play music on a jukebox, play games on an arcade machine, ...)
- An original soundtrack
- More soundeffects
- Obviously fixing all bugs and glitches
- All artwork and programming was done by me within the 3-day period of the game jam.
- Music, sound and fonts were recycled from some of my own previous games.
- Built with GB Studio
- Plugins used: Advanced Dialogue 2 by Brian Rollins, Advanced Dialogue by Pautomas, Adventure+ by Hauntology, Swap Tiles by Frederik
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Hi! We played your game on stream and really enjoyed it!
Thanks so much for playing and showing off my game 🙏
I'm glad you enjoyed your time. The voting for the game jam has ended last sunday and this game actually made it to second place of 112 submissions 🥳 I'll release a couple of bug fixes within the next 1-2 weeks and add much more content over the next months 😊
This is really gorgeous! Great work!
Thanks so much 🥰
Amazing art, you must have reused some assets to make all this in such a short amount of time but I didn't notice anything! Very cute, there seems to be some weird things going on with the shop (you can infinitely sell to the shopkeepers and get infinite money). Really reminds me of the beginning of old Pokémon games. Impressive that you made such an intricate menu system, "exploring" system, text system, and world so quickly!
Thanks a lot! Actually all art assets were created during the game jam period. I have become pretty quick at creating pixel art. Also, I didn't do anything else than eat, sleep, and work on the game during the 3 days. However, I did not have any time left to create a new font and an original soundtrack for this game. So, the font and music are reused from my previous games.
I know, the shops are a complete mess. I only had one hour left before the deadline to create both of them and no time for testing. Originally, I had a completely different shop system in mind. But that would have taken way too long to implement. This will be the first thing I'm going to work on after the voting period has ended 😊
i loved the game but am having a little trouble accesing my inventory
Happy to hear you enjoy the game , Can you describe the problems you have with the menu? You can access the inventory from the menu (Start button / Enter on PC).
ok thank you it works now!
I'll never understand how game developers can be SO DANG GOOD. It is incredible being able to make all the pixel art you used for the game but to turn it into a game too is just incredible. Great job, definitely got a thing or two to learn before I can reach this level.
You are being way too kind 😅 I only started developing games a year ago. So, there is still a lot I need to learn. But I really love working on games. I really hope that I'll eventually be able to change professions and work as a full-time game dev 🙂
This game is wonderful. I absolutely love the atmosphere - and the fact that it's a genuine GBC game is incredible. Dialogue, cutscenes, customization, gameplay - this little game packs so much. Even the music brings me back to the GBA and Pokemon Emerald (since I never had a GBC), and I love it.
One glitch I did find is that I can sell items infinitely, if I keep talking to either shopkeeper after the first expedition. But other than that, this was a really amazing experience. It feels like a real, professional game haha.
I'm really glad you enjoyed the game 😊
I love developing for the GBC and I loved Pokémon Emerald 💚
I recently had someone from Fiverr put me as a player character into Emerald. It's like a dream come true.
Thanks for letting me know about the glitch. Should be an easy fix once the upload ban has been lifted :)