Depths of Europa - Demo
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Depths of Europa
Depths of Europa is a new Gameboy Color game in active development.
This demo is a complete, tiny adventure all its own, and takes place before the full game. Don't worry about spoiling the main game - this content is standalone!
Background
The Gameboy Color never really got a solid exploration game in the style of Metroid, and I want to change that. Depths of Europa will be a full "metroidvania" adventure with modern features like an auto-map that fills in as you explore, a speed-running mode that disables dialog popups and other gameplay interruptions, and equipment and inventory screens for managing your loadout or reviewing clues you've picked up.
Instructions
This is a Gameboy Color game - the D-pad should be bound to arrow keys or WASD on your keyboard, with the B and A buttons bound to Z and X and Start/Select on Enter/Shift.
If you have a gamepad it should work automatically.
You will move your character with the D-pad, with the A button jumping and B using your selected ability (which is shooting at the start of the game).
Press Start to access your Map subscreen. From there you can press Select to cycle to Equipment and Inventory screens.
In gameplay, pressing Select will switch between active abilities - however you'll only have one to start the game, your gun.
You may drop down through "thin" platforms by pressing Down + A (jump).
GBC rom file download
To try this demo out in your favorite emulator or on a hardware flashcart just download the .GBC file below.
If you have an Analogue Pocket, download the .pocket file below and place it on your SD card in the GB Studio directory. You should then be able to access it from Tools -> GB Studio in the main menu to play.
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Development log
- Demo updated - and Kickstarter is live!6 days ago
- Minor updates to Depths of Europa demo11 days ago
- Demo released for Depths of Europa12 days ago
Comments
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After opening up the promenade door (close to the armory) I lost the ability to shoot. Jump still worked. It persisted even after a save and reload. I experienced this in the web build. It was fun up until then. Looks great :)
Thanks for trying the demo and thanks for the bug report.
It may be that the caps lock key on your keyboard got hit - the emulator the web embed uses apparently differentiates between capital and lower case letters.
One other user also reported not being able to shoot after a certain point on the web build, and the caps lock key was all I could see that might cause that.
I’ll add a note to the instructions when I push the next update.
Caps lock was not on, and I still had the ability to jump. Testing in another browser, I noticed that caps lock being on stopped both shooting and jumping.
Reloading the save, I could still not shoot. Without changing anything, when I died, I returned to title and started a new game, and could shoot/jump. Reloading the previous save, that save still did not allow shooting.
So unfortunately not an input issue as this apparently corrupted my save.
Hopefully that might help a little :)
Interesting. It does help, thank you.
I’ll have to think about what might cause that.
Omg, this is soo good so far! Loving the Doctor Who references! Can't wait to buy the full version! Please tell me you're doing cartridges...
This game looks great :)
Beautiful game and well executed!
Wow! Very interesting metroidvania game.