Posted by rcy 10 hours ago
it is a real, honest-to-goodness mario-bros inspired GameBoy game with four levels over three biomes ending in a slop factory where you battle final boss warren buffering (an online character I beef with, we are friends)
if you beat him it unlocks the source code for htmx 4.0
game was written by Stephen Mitchell (aka scum) by hand, using GBStudio w/heavy customizations, hoping to get an essay by him up soon talking about the creation of the game
carts were produced w/the expertise of Jarason Banes who also did the cover design. Cover art is by Ash (https://www.fiverr.com/ae1996/) who also did the soft-cover art for https://hypermedia.systems
Hope you find it enjoyable if you get a copy and at least find it funny if you don't :)
Got really good at using it by the end of the project. You can listen to the trailer music here. Let me know what you think.
https://www.youtube.com/live/9ubSJGyB21Q?si=sz-8pxPs6zxVYMfY...
Love HTMX, can't wait for my https://brickboy.xyz/ to arrive so I can get to work!
There's a source code reader at the end of the game, tbd if there are transfer abilities, I haven't beat it yet
https://modretro.com/products/chromatic-tetris-bundle
you can find cheaper ones on amazon/temu too
Someone commented in the past few days that the most impressive demo they saw in a conference was LibreOffice running on Fil-C, and I agreed.
However, this took the #1 spot from it (leaving that previous demo in #2) in my opinion. Very impressive, and nostalgic too.
I used HTMX in a few projects, and the library worked well enough for what I needed, but I found it to be a bit too limiting compared to accomplishing the same task in Vanilla JS (my go-to).
well done to the htmx team.
...I may have done this.