Title Ali Baba and the 40 thieves
Category Games
Language C
Libraries GBDK
State Finished
Platform Game Boy
Started August 1 2014
SourceGithub
ROMDownload
Web Play with BinjGB Js emulator

Made for the 3rd GBJAM.

I wrote this with the version of GBDK that was current back then. It had an ancient version of the SDCC compiler, full of egregious bugs, including failing to multiply by a power of 2.

It seems I've had a compiler bug which makes the win-condition unpredictably fail, and another to corrupt the status bar, but I can't confirm.

I (writing this in 2023) recall being partly inspired by AVGN's Little Red Hood episode in that the objective of the game is also to collect N items in an obtuse manner.

9 years after making the game I finally bought a flash cart and was able to test it on my childhood Game Boy Color: