Top 15 Game Boy Homebrew Competition Games! [GB COMPO 23]

Check out the 15 finalist entries in the Game Boy Indie Homebrew Game Jam, GB Compo 23!

Check out all the homebrew game jam entries here:
https://itch.io/jam/gbcompo23/entries

Watch the judging process here –

Games list:
1 Hermano – https://patmorita.itch.io/hermano-game-boy
2 Feed IT Souls – https://gumpyfunction.itch.io/feed-it-souls
3 Enceladus – https://mrpapshmir.itch.io/enceladus
4 The Host – https://allalonegamez.itch.io/the-host
5 NUNYA – https://bard-0.itch.io/nunya
6 Ghost of the Arcade – https://playinstinct.itch.io/ghost-of-the-arcade
7 Kaiju Kai Kai – https://sunnychowtheguy.itch.io/kaijukaikai
8 Chantey (Prologue) – https://gortyncode.itch.io/chantey-prologue
9 Slime Trials – https://canight.itch.io/slime-trials
10 Hidden Gems – https://rebusmind.itch.io/hidden-gems
11 Abducted – https://itch.io/jam/gbcompo23/rate/2148312
12 Slayer the Hawk – https://mindbleach.itch.io/slayer-the-hawk
13 EXTERMINATOR – https://glitchytsp.itch.io/exterminator
14 Imperium Strike Force – https://orlando64.itch.io/imperium-strike-force
15 Lightseeker – https://zanipixels.itch.io/lightseeker

Video contents:
00:00 intro
01:11 Lightseeker
02:18 Imperium Strike Force
03:25 Exterminator
04:15 Slayer The Hawk
05:31 Hidden Gems
06:04 Slime Trials
07:00 Chantey (Prologue)
08:31 Ghost of the Arcade
09:14 Nunya
09:41 The Host
10:20 Enceladus
11:14 Feed It Souls
11:53 Hermano

Last year we hosted GB COMPO 32, the second Game Boy Homebrew game jam competition where developers were given three months, and the task of creating a game that could play on game boy or game boy color hardware, with the theme of “You Are The Monster”

With 80 entries across a variety of genres and game engines, I, along with a team of other judges had the tough challenge of playing all of them to narrow it down to the top 15 games!

We ranked each game based on the following 5 categories and a score of 1-5 for each, then we combined the results to work out the winners.

The categories were:

Gameplay
How entertaining are the gameplay mechanics? How fun is the game?

Technical
How innovative is it from a technical perspective? Does it push the hardware to the limit?

Originality
How refreshing is it from a non-technical perspective? Does it have a unique design / mechanics?

Graphics
How impressive are the art, animation and visual effects?

Audio
How good are the music and sound effects?

Theme
How was the theme implemented in the gameplay, the mechanics and/or the story?

I won’t be sharing my specific scores, but I do have the aggregated scores from all the judges. Where the final score was equal, we based the ranking on whoever had the higher score for the theme.

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