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Solo dev making new Game Boy games. Open world RPG 'Fall from Space' coming soon, try the demo! – https://joelj.itch.io/fall-from-space Order a boxed Tales of Monsterland DX! http://www.talesofmonsterland.com UK, Manchester http://www.joeljgames.co.uk

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Thrilling posts from the archive...Variables! With only 768 total (and locals count too!) you gotta' remember... Reuse! Recycle! Repurpose! Resplendent!
#gameboy #gbstudio #gamedev
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09.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 27    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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Rolling out a few updates to the Fall from Space #Gameboy Demo, minor bug fixes as well as improvements, download over on Itch – joelj.itch.io/fall-from-sp...

03.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Monster land, DX and original

Monster land, DX and original

Still got it! It’s a great update, love the new colour graphics!

25.09.2025 13:41 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

❤️

Thanks! and it got a plastic shell too!

25.09.2025 13:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for the photo Nick! ToM DX should be a bit of an improvement on the DMG original I think you might have knocking about!

25.09.2025 13:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Congratulations!

06.09.2025 12:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fall from Space Demo v0.59 + dev update What? A new demo and a bit of a dev update? I know, I know. RARE. I’ve held off on a demo update because I’ve been so deep into the full game. It's been surreal writing the ending(s) I've had in m...

The Fall from Space demo has been updated to... a more recent version!

Download the #GameBoy ROM and explore a planet in the star system now.

& if you're especially bored, read a typically rambling dev blog with updates on the games development – joelj.itch.io/fall-from-sp...

23.08.2025 18:15 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Fall from Space Demo v0.59 + dev update What? A new demo and a bit of a dev update? I know, I know. RARE. I’ve held off on a demo update because I’ve been so deep into the full game. It's been surreal writing the ending(s) I've had in m...

The Fall from Space demo has been updated to... a more recent version!

Download the #GameBoy ROM and explore a planet in the star system now.

& if you're especially bored, read a typically rambling dev blog with updates on the games development – joelj.itch.io/fall-from-sp...

23.08.2025 18:15 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

...and a fantastic Sega Mega Drive port!

19.08.2025 11:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You never really know who you’re going to bump into in the shady back alleys of Terra Mächina.

...I’m sure I recognise this robot from somewhere?

#FallFromSpace #GameBoy

17.07.2025 17:00 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

Plasma Sword, Dreamcast. picked it up from Game Station for cheap and it was oddly sealed, but was too busy playing Third Strike and other Capcom fighters to open it (also heard it was very average) and just never got round to playing it.

07.08.2025 15:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yep one of my favourite pick up and play games for the GBC! It does get so hard later on when your walls are decimated and they refuse to give you suitable pieces to fit the gap! Yeah I didn't think about it, but that sampled music, especially the drumming does add a lot of atmosphere.

07.08.2025 11:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rampart's Game Boy Color port has some pretty fun speech samples in it

07.08.2025 10:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

All the best for a speedy recovery!

30.07.2025 20:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Self Simulated is so full of glitches,... some walls just doesn't work at all!

Weird what you can find there. Like this robot, which seems to be a bit lost 🤖

Featuring @joelj.bsky.social "Fall From Space", a non-linear, sci-fi ARPG for the Gameboy.

#gameboycolor

17.07.2025 17:05 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Self Simulated - A New Game Boy Color Game by 2nd Law Games Self Simulated is a fast-paced action platformer for the original Game Boy Color

Along with @2ndlawgames.bsky.social we thought it’d be fun to put little cameos in our games—with us both having amnesiac robotic protagonists.

Anyway, check out Self Simulated, a lot of love & hard work has gone into this game, there’s a great demo and it's now fully released! selfsimulated.com

17.07.2025 17:00 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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You never really know who you’re going to bump into in the shady back alleys of Terra Mächina.

...I’m sure I recognise this robot from somewhere?

#FallFromSpace #GameBoy

17.07.2025 17:00 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1
Wonderboy, the original game for the Sega Master System showing game box with a boy in a grass skirt jumping over a giant snail

Wonderboy, the original game for the Sega Master System showing game box with a boy in a grass skirt jumping over a giant snail

My soft spot forever lies with this guy

11.07.2025 10:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can't wait to play this. Also, love the box art!

10.07.2025 16:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A game logo that says FCP which stands for First Contact protocol. There are six screenshots of a gameboy game behind the logo. They all portray various sci-fi scenarios between crew members on a spaceship. One is a map of the ship.

A game logo that says FCP which stands for First Contact protocol. There are six screenshots of a gameboy game behind the logo. They all portray various sci-fi scenarios between crew members on a spaceship. One is a map of the ship.

I've been secretly working on a new game that just dropped and you can order it today!

It's a story focused puzzle exploration game that takes place on an interstellar spaceship.
modretro.com/products/fir...
@modretro.bsky.social
#gamedev #gameboy #chromatic

10.07.2025 16:28 — 👍 53    🔁 23    💬 10    📌 0
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Physical copies of Self Simulated are available now — and I’m beyond excited!

Discover what happened… and why your mind is trapped inside a robot body, in this precision platformer for all GBC handhelds.

Get yours: modretro.com/products/sel...

#gameboy #gbstudio

10.07.2025 14:48 — 👍 44    🔁 19    💬 7    📌 1

Excellent, although I can't see that staying like that for long! *hits RT*

28.06.2025 16:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Very cool, thanks for doing this! Here's a screenshot from the upcoming #GameBoy RPG Fall from Space! Hoping to have it finished later this year. joelj.itch.io/fall-from-sp...

28.06.2025 16:23 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

☝️

19.06.2025 08:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This would be incredibly useful!

06.06.2025 19:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Moonwalking from the bedroom, vaulting the bannister and firing finger pistols at the C64 🔥

26.05.2025 11:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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With the majority of the Fall from Space RPG, story and various endings in place now I'm currently working on action levels. Here's a preview of the new 'look ahead' camera which should help with some of the trickier jumps.

#GameBoy #gbstudio #indiegame #retrogaming #indiedev

05.05.2025 09:25 — 👍 38    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0
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a couple of people are dancing in a park with trees in the background . ALT: a couple of people are dancing in a park with trees in the background .

Connoisseurs

22.05.2025 11:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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👀

22.05.2025 10:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Love the big sprites, looks great

21.05.2025 19:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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