Stone Constructor

Overview

Try your hand at a game of Go with a friend on an actual Game Boy, or your favorite emulator.

Created during GBJAM 8!

• A full size Go board on a Game Boy!
• No rules are enforced; that's up to you and your opponent
• This is a playable prototype
• Placed and captured stones are used to guess the winner.

Tools

This game was written in C with the GBDK library.  The GrafX2, GBTD & GBMB graphics tools were also used.

Limitations

This is about as simple as a Go implementation can get:

• 2 human players required (no AI)
• No score estimation - stones on the board added up, plus the captured stones, and adjusted with the komi** value of 7.5 to guess the winner.

Tested on:

• Real hardware
• BGB emulator

Releases

October 2020

• 1.1.1 Audio & stone placement cursor improvements
• 1.1.0 Full board use enabled plus stone rendering corrections

September 2020

• 1.0.1 Usability improvements
• 1.0.0 GBJAM 8 submission & initial public release

** 'komi' is added to the white stone score as compensation for black placing the first stone