Cobalt Beta Delayed; Now for Gameboy
April 1st, 2014, CobaltWe have some good news and some bad news.
The bad news is, the beta has been slightly delayed. We have decided to move our focus to more realistic goals for the project, and skip platforms are not good for jump-and-run games, such as Windows and Mac. Instead, we proudly announce the good news: Cobalt is now developed for Gameboy! Hit the jump for more info and screenshots!
Here’s a first preview of the new Cobalt title screen:
It took some effort to port our C++ and Lua-based engine “DaisyMoon” to run on the Gameboy’s 4.19 MHz processor, but now all major issues have been sorted out. The game has been adapted to fit into the 8 kbit RAM (although we’ll need to extend it using the cartridge options), and all artwork has been updated for the 2bit color palette (four colors).
The Gameboy has sold over 118 million copies, so the target audience is huge! Gameboy players are also used to twitch games, so Cobalt will fit right in. The game sounds and looks great on the device, just take a look of this cool screenshot!
Obviously we’ll support the Game Link cable, so you will be able to play Cobalt both cooperatively and head-to-head in action-filled deathmatch games.
Since we basically have to redo the game from scratch, we’re hoping to have a final release date some time early 2015.
Please let us know what you think in the comments!
// The Cobalt Team
UPDATE: Yes, this was an April Fool’s joke. Sadly.
April 1st, 2014 at 3:12 am
Happy April Fools i’m guessing?
April 1st, 2014 at 4:48 am
April fools to you too <3
April 1st, 2014 at 1:52 pm
<3 i love it
April 1st, 2014 at 2:56 pm
Aw man, awesome! Will there be a Gameboy Advance version?
April 1st, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Damn, I don’t have a GameBoy. Anyone know where I can get one?
April 1st, 2014 at 3:24 pm
Will you be porting it to SNES?
April 1st, 2014 at 5:23 pm
Will it work on gba emulators?!
April 1st, 2014 at 5:30 pm
Lol!
April 2nd, 2014 at 12:53 am
Hah, clever fooling, Oxeye.
Someone should actually try this, though. You know, for laughs.
April 3rd, 2014 at 1:16 am
Don’t port it to Gameboy, port it to GBA. Or DS. Orrrr 3DS.
April 3rd, 2014 at 11:05 pm
Hey the person that made the Coblat should totally port it to game boy. You could probably just change a few sprites on an old platform shooter to a some sort of viable” Cobalt experience.
But no, seriously: Please don’t do this. I like Cobalt.
April 10th, 2014 at 11:28 pm
Darn, I read this today and hoped it was real as I bought an original Gameboy like the one in the picture a few days ago.
October 31st, 2014 at 10:26 pm
Well I have a WII U and Nintendo will probably upload this kind of Cobalt at the Nintendo E-shop.So I can also play it on my Nintendo devices!
But…if only the BETA wouldn’t delayed.:(
October 31st, 2014 at 10:28 pm
Oh I also have a 3DS.
November 1st, 2015 at 4:38 pm
Beta delayed apperantly wasn’t a joke afterall…
November 7th, 2015 at 3:13 pm
Beta delayed?