AIRPLANZ
AIRPLANZ is a 2 players - 1 Gameboy ROM written in Assembly.
How to play
For those familiar with Battleship, it's basically the same game, but with airplanes and slightly modified rules.
Each player has a 10x10 board on which they place 3 airplanes each like in this picture:
Then, the planes disappear (on _pen'n'paper_ version, use a new empty board) and you have to guess where the opponent's planes may be. That means you choose a cell (on _pen'n'paper_ version, they are labeled A1-J10, on Gameboy I didn't find this thing necessary) and the software (the opponent) tells you whether you missed, hit a plane part or its cockpit (in this situation, the whole plane is destroyed). Everything is illustrated below:
Note:
- "X" = missed
- "O" = hit
- destroyed plane appears dotted
It's a 2 players - 1 console game, so you have to pass the Gameboy to your opponent each turn.
- Title screen appears. The first player presses `A` and the board will be loaded. Planes need to be moved (`D-pad`) or rotated (`Select`) such that no two planes overlap in the end. Press `A`,`B` to commute between airplanes.
- When ready, press `Start`. Be careful, once you pressed it, you can no longer edit your board configuration, unless you hard reset the game.
- A message will appear telling you to pass the Gameboy to the next player. Player 2 presses start and sets his/her board, then presses `Start` and passes Gameboy to Player 1.
- Player 1 presses `Start` and opponent's board will be shown. Player 1 chooses a cell to attack, then presses `A`. Player 1 passes the Gameboy to Player 2, who does the same thing.
- Both player repeat the process until one player destroys all the 3 planes of the opponent.
(screenshot from Android emulator)
Playing in browser
- D-Pad : Arrows
- A : Z
- B : X
- Start : Enter / M
- Select : Shift / N
Credits
- GBDev community for their kindness and willingness to help uninitiated people like me in terms of GBz80 (or whatever want to call it)
- alexhulk2002 for his idea of one-Gameboy gameplay. If it wasn't for him, I'd still be looking for ways to make two Gameboys communicate through a link cable, as I originally planned this project would do.
- the anonymous hero who invented this game in its paper format
- Special thanks to Antonio Vivace for publishing the ROM on Homebrew Hub. As a matter of fact, AIRPLANZ is the lucky occupant of the 500th entry of the database 🎉
Linked
- visit HomebrewOwl.GB to check out my other Gameboy projects
Status | Released |
Platforms | HTML5 |
Release date | Jun 18, 2021 |
Author | NotImplementedLife |
Genre | Strategy |
Tags | airplanes, battleship, Game Boy, Game Boy ROM |
Code license | GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL) |
Average session | A few minutes |
Languages | English |
Links | Source code |
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