Brews of Anubis [+GameBoy ROM]

Step into the shoes of James, a barista in 1930s London, whose cozy life is turned upside down when rumors swirl about an escaped mummy wreaking havoc in the city. As strange events unfold, follow James and his companions through shadowy streets, a mysterious museum, and cryptic discoveries that hint at ancient curses. This retro-styled RPG will challenge your wits and keep you guessing, as each choice brings you closer to the truth. Will you uncover the secrets before it’s too late?

I wrote this as a three act play, and did my best to close up all the story loops. One character should change sprites at one point, but they don't and that's ok there's only so much time to work on this. I also intended to add music (as seen in the credits) I might release a v1.1 with music at some point. Overall I am really happy with the story it has most of the elements you'd expect including a side storyline and a couple of distinct side characters. I've never written anything like this so it's my first attempt.

I've played through it several times it should be playable by anyone. I'm leaning very heavily on GB Studio, and in particular they offer "color only mode" which leverages the ability to have up to 392(? i forget exactly) tiles for the background. I wrote a script to downsample the background, break it into gameboy tiles, delete the duplicates, then build a photomosaic from the tiles. But it's buggy so that's why there are a bunch of weirdly out of place tiles in the background. The backgrounds are actually sampled to correct max colors for GBC but GB Studio downsamples them further to 4 color mode because reasons. Maybe if they fix this I can reupload it in full GBC mode

Also in the museum that dinosaur skeleton is supposed to be transparent background. It is in GB Studio, but not in the final rendered. Oh well.

Huge thanks to GB Studio for making this so easy to orchestrate.

Every character has unique dialog! If you read it all the story should fit together pretty nicely. Generally start from bottom left to top right. Speed running the game should take 20 min, maybe as long as 45 min if you're a slow/distracted reader.