Toolchain trends bar chart showing values: Tools 2021 2023 2025 GBBasic 1% GBDK 18% 12% 16% GBStudio 68% 77% 71% libgb++ 1% Matlab GB 1% Unknown 11% 8% 9% ZGB 3% 3% 1%

Music driver trends bar chart showing values: Music Driver 2021 2023 2025 DevSound 1.00% GBSoundSystem 2.00% GBT Player 87.00% 25.00% 12.00% hUGETracker 10.00% 75.00% 87.00% GBMod 1.00%

Lastly, here are the trends for toolchains in #gbcompo over time. As mentioned, mostly steady showing continued participation from all parts of the #Gameboy development community.

There's much more of a shift visible in music drivers.

#gbcompo21 #gbcompo23 #gbcompo25

Table with results as follows: MBC TYPE Count - MBC TYPE MBC1 2 MBC1+RAM+BATTERY 6 MBC3+TIMER+RAM+BATTERY 1 MBC5 5 MBC5+RAM+BATTERY 60 ROM ONLY 6 Total Result 80

Sharing this bit of info since I just compiled it for some #gbcompo25 related discussion (using modified catskull header tool):

MBC type usage for #GBCompo23 Entries

#gameboy #gameboycolor #gbstudio #gbcompo

Hermano won #gbcompo23!!! Very happy day!
Thanks to the judges for loving our baby 😍

Check it out! NUNYA got 5th place in the Overall category at the #gbcompo23 ! (and 2nd in graphics!) Congrats everyone, you all did an amazing work! Thanks everyone for all the support 🥳🎉
gbdev.io/gbcompo23.ht...

And here's the winner for the demoscene category of gbcompo23: Did Somebody Say Demo? by VL2M Studio

The #GBDev account didn't post yet #gbcompo23

8bit Sunset (GameBoy Music) by Kabcorp

Game Boy jam #gbcompo23 winners start to be announced

Kabcorp wins first place in music category with "8bit Sunset"

kabcorp.itch.io/8bit-sunset
#gbcompo #gameboy #chiptune #nintendo

PowerBall: Monster's Quest by Rubenretro, beatscribe, ainaSGE PowerBall it's a brick breaker game with RPG elements. Play in your browser

Free early version rom from #gbcompo23 at
rubenretro.itch.io/powerball

Nikku4211 released the #music he did for #GBCompo23, which includes the tunes he did for my demo. Check it out or something.
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#gbcompo23jam #chiptune #gameboy

Really bad quick drawing of the battle screen layout (made during #gbcompo23) and how it turned out in the game. Found a bunch of those sketches lying around, thought they would make for an interesting share. Luckily, my pixel art skills are better than my skills with a pencil!

More info at https://gbdev.io/gbcompo23 gbdev.io GB Compo 2023 Join us for an epic game development event celebrating the classics! Show off your creativity and skills by crafting original games for the iconic Game Boy! gbdev@fedi.gbdev.io gbdev @gbdev@fedi.gbdev.io The shortlist is composed of the following entries (order is random): Ghost of the Arcade, Enceladus, Feed IT Souls, Hidden Gems, Slayer the Hawk, EXTERMINATOR, Imperium Strike Force, Abducted, Chantey (Prologue), Lightseeker, The Host, Slime Trials, Kaiju Kai Kai, NUNYA, Hermano Congratulations to the authors!

Short list #gbcompo23 entries release by gbdev
fedi.gbdev.io/@gbdev/11150...

compo info
gbdev.io/gbcompo23

itch page
itch.io/jam/gbcompo23

#gameboy #homebrew #gbcompo #gbdev

Vu que je suis quelqu'un de vraiment littéral, je joue à "Ghost of the Arcade" au sein de la salle d'arcade d'Arcade Legends à la foire gastronomique de Dijon 😆

Super jeu de la #gbcompo23 en passant, n'hésitez pas à aller le découvrir 😉

#gameboy #gbc #homebrew #arcade

Chantey is a 🏴‍☠️pirate 🤘metal, top-down rhythm adventure I am developing for the original Game Boy - my entry to #gbcompo23

Demo is available here: gortyncode.itch.io/chantey-prol...

#gbdev #gameboy #pixelart #indiedev