Day 46 of making a Game Boy music tool for my game's audio.
The re-creation of the Link's Awakening overworld theme is finished. It should sound identical to original hardware.
I now consider the tool "good enough" to use for making original music. 🙌
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Day 26 of making a Game Boy music tool for my game's audio.
You can now add and edit "Instruments." Each one is a configuration for one of the Game Boy's audio channels.
The goal is to allow swapping Instruments mid-song to change how each channel sounds.
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I can relate. 🙂 #gamedev #gameaudio #MayGame
Day 22 of Making a Game Boy music tool for my game's audio.
Huge milestone today. I recreated the indoor music from the The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening! This should sound almost identical to what you hear ingame. I love the bell sounds. 🥰
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Day 21 of Making a Game Boy music tool for my game's audio.
Patterns can be created, stamped, edited, and deleted.
Channels can be toggled on and off.
Loop point can be set.
I feel like this enables all the basics of making a song from scratch. ^^
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Day 18 of Making a Game Boy music tool for my game's audio.
Real-time playback now matches original hardware.
...when it plays at 22050 samples/sec (instead of 44100)
...and when buffer is filled at 120 fps.
Which....you know...This works. I'll take it. 🥰
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An image of a work-in-progress music-creation software. There are three main parts: the left side shows parameters for different instruments. The middle shows a vertical view of all notes in the song, split into four columns, with one column per music channel. The right side shows a grid displaying the locations of all the notes based on their pitch.
Day 16 of Making a Game Boy music tool for my game's audio.
The refactor is complete. 🥲 Adding new things will be much easier now. Such as...
Can now toggle between playing one pattern (right) or entire song (middle). Saving/loading song state works too.
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An image of a work-in-progress music-creation software. There are three main parts: the left side shows parameters for different instruments. The middle shows a vertical view of all notes in the song, split into four columns, with one column per music channel. The right side shows a grid displaying the locations of all the notes based on their pitch.
Day 14 of Making a Game Boy music tool for my game's audio.
Added a vertical panel which will show the entire song, with one column per channel. The green box is the same sequence of notes that is visualized on the right side.
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A picture of a large gray window, with a graphical piano keyboard at the right side, with a music-tracker-like grid to the right of it for playing notes.
Day 13 of Making a Game Boy music tool for my game's audio.
Added software envelope for WAV Channel.
Added speed, beats/measure, steps/beat inputs.
Overhauled input event handling including more flexible scrollbars. Can now set a starting position (blue bar)
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Day 12 of Making a Game Boy music tool for my game's audio.
You can now set the length and scale of the pattern. Grid colors and note names will update to match.
A marker tracks the current place in the song.
And you can place and remove notes as well!
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Day 11 of Making a Game Boy music tool for my game's audio.
Reworked all timers to scale off a 2^22 Hz timer (the GB CPU speed) instead of 44.1k Hz output.
This fixes some issues with resampling and also eliminates all these ugly floating-point timers. 😝
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Day 10 of Making a Game Boy music tool for my game's audio.
It's starting to look like an actual music tracker.
Made the visual piano vertical, made its notes clickable. Added a grid for music notes. Tool can now visualize and play back a simple melody. 🎶
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Day 9 of Making a Game Boy music tool for my game's audio.
With the Noise Channel (#4) now implemented, all the basic audio capabilities are done! Did a major code refactor as well.
Think I'll take a day off before deciding that to implement next.
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Day 8 of Making a Game Boy music tool for my game's audio.
The WAV Channel (#3) is now implemented!
It allows for custom waveforms (yay!)
But it can cause audible crunching and pops if you're not careful with it (the Triangle and Sin Wav show this).
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Day 7 of Making a Game Boy music tool for my game's audio.
Added the Period Sweep feature (slowly increase or decrease the frequency of a note). Perhaps you recognize these sound effects?
With this, all features of the Pulse Channel are now implemented! #gameaudio #gameboy #gamedev #MayGame
Day 6 of Making a Game Boy music tool for my game's audio.
Left/right panning and volume envelopes (ie fadeouts) are now in place, following GB limitations.
Long envelopes result in a bell-like sound 🥰 and short ones cause a stubby blip-like sound.😑
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Day 5 of Making a Game Boy music tool for my game's audio.
The tool now streams and manipulates audio in real-time, rather than generating individual note samples.
Pulse channel can now be edited via the interface - all based on original hardware capabilities. #gameaudio #gameboy #gamedev #MayGame
A screenshot of the program Audacity, showing three different waveform tracks stacked vertically. All three of them are extremely similar. the top one is labeled "Game Boy Emulator #1". The middle one is labeled "My own audio tool". The third one is labeled "Game Boy Emulator #2. Its sound waves are flipped. no idea why. sounds the same though."
Day 3 of Making a Game Boy music tool for my game's audio:
Noise channel is now functional. The basics, anyway.
I checked its output against two popular Game Boy emulators (for the same hardware parameters) and its speed and amplitudes line up pretty well!
#gameaudio #gameboy #gamedev #MayGame
I've tried several programs for recreating Game Boy-like music, but they just haven't been clicking for me.
So I decided to try making my own. 🫠 So far I've got a Godot program that plays a square wave sample of the correct pitch of the piano key being played.
#gamedev #musicdev #MayGame
I'm still learning #Godot, and I keep finding new interesting things.
Like how it has Text To Speech stuff built-in and just a function call away.
Like, wow! I mean, I wouldn't use it for voice acting but for accessibility it honestly doesn't seem that difficult to support. #gamedev #MayGame
In my game, quests are represented as "Mental Notes."
You can see these notes on the map screen. 🗺️🔖
You can also see them on the items screen, on top of items that are part of a quest. 🌻🔖
Quests with no item yet will show an item wireframe. 🌐🔖
#MayGame #indiegame #cozygame #gamedev #gaming
A screenshot from a Steam page for a game. It reads: "Full Controller Support: Xbox Controllers, Playstation Controllers"
Did more controller testing the last 2 days (including Bluetooth). Made some minor fixes and optimizations too. I now feel confident enough to update the Steam page with this:
🎮 Full Controller Support! 🎮
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I've overhauled the System Menu for #MayGame. The options are now laid out in a grid and have character animations when active. The Map and Items menus are accessible as tabs, too.
Animations need fine-tuning but otherwise pretty happy with this.
#WishlistWednesday #gaming #indiegame #cozygame
Happy New Year everyone! 🎉
The first Developer Diary for "May and the Amazing Bouquet" is live on Steam! I talk about development in 2025, what's coming in 2026, and how many wishlists we have so far!
store.steampowered.com/news/app/373...
#gaming #indiegame #cozygame #gamedev #MayGame
I've seen some indie games with a built-in achievement-tracking screen and decided to make one too.
Not every gaming platform has an achievements system, so this would make sure everyone could experience it.
#gaming #indiegame #cozygame #MayGame #gamedev
A flowchart showing a dozen-ish menus for an indie game in development and how they are connected to each other.
Aaaaaallllllright holiday shenanigans are over. *stretches*
Time to get back to work on the game('s menus).
(I think this is the full diagram of what's needed and how they're connected. Just need to finish implementing.)
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Input customization options are now fully functional in my indie game! Let me show you!
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300 indie games will be featured on this showcase premier today, including "May and the Amazing Bouquet"! Take a look - you're bound to see something you'll like!
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The save file screen for #MayGame is now fully functional.
Composed a small song for it and also several sfx using Furnace.
May's sprite will change depending on where you are in the game.
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The pause/options menus have gotten a visual overhaul! Added icons and reused the parchment style of the map screen.
Still not 100% satisfied but this feels much better than the plain black and white windows from before.
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