Doomslinger Dungeon
A spooky
first-person
dungeon-crawling
rougue-lite
shooter
for the Game Boy
My entry for GBJAM 12
This game was originally built within 10 days during the game jam. This includes the creation of all assets. It placed 8th of around 400 submissions.
There were next to no first-person shooters on the original Game Boy. So, I wanted to change that :)
Play as the Doomslinger, a mysterious gunslinger. Venture into a creepy dungeon and defeat all kinds of spooky monsters like ghosts, zombies and pumpkin monsters.
How to Play
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Play the Latest Version
After the game jam I have updated the game. I'm going to keep the submitted version online, if you are curious what the game looked like when it was submitted. In any other case you should probably play the most recent version.
If you are interested in what changed since the game jam and what are my future ideas and plans for this game, please read my devlogs. I'm looking forward to your feedback.
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Development log
Comments
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I love this! I have absolutely no idea why there weren't more (or any that I can find) games like this released during the gameboys' lifespan! I reckon you could have started a franchise back in the day.
Glad you like it 😊
To my knowledge there were not really any comparable games during the Game Boy's Lifespan. While there were some FPS like Faceball or Ray-Thunder, they were rather trying to emulate PVP experiences and had pretty clunky controls. Also, they did not have any level or upgrade system as far as I know. But they were still very impressive from a technical perspective.
Gold!
Thanks so much 😊
Made a video
Thanks a lot for checking out and sharing my game 🧡
You played an old version that still contained a couple of bugs. If you ever want to revisit the game, please download the most recent ROM. I'll be releasing more updates in the future, adding much more content.
Wonderful sprite work, love the paired down elements of a first person shooter. Plays great. Congratulations!
Thank you so much 😊
Just beat the game and absolutely loved it. I hope you can do more with this in the future! some sort of endless mode would be fantastic. Well done!
Thanks a lot 🙏
I have many more ideas for the game. One of them indeed is an endless mode 😊
But after the 10 days of the game jam I first have to catch up with some real-life stuff 😅
this feels like a game where, if the controls were better, it'd be too easy but it has an Interesting concept and i like the artwork. Plus, the roguelike elements could prove valuable on a second playthru.
Thanks for your feedback. In which way do you think the controls could be better? I want to improve the game after the voting period is over :)
It's hard to articulate but using a cursor as a crosshair is always difficult. However, here it's the speed of the enemies.
Like I said, I don't know how to balance it as if you make them too slow, it'd be too easy.
Hm... I could not think of any other way to make a movable crosshair on Game Boy.
Hello, excellent work! A suggestion for aiming would be like the one in the SNES game Wild Guns. One button to shoot. Another button to hold to aim. You could even add two taps to the side to dodge.
I haven't played Wild Guns yet. But I'm going to look into that. Thanks a lot for the suggestion :)