The Game Boy Camera is a surprisingly cool piece of kit – did you know that you can use it as a webcam or that it can be used to photograph the moon? – but we didn't ever think we'd see a fully-functioning, fan-made game playable on the Camera's software itself.
Amazingly, though, that's exactly what we have here thanks to freelance artist and game developer, Karolina Twardosz. Making fantastic use of the GB Camera's Hot-Spot feature, Twardosz has managed to transform a library of images into a short point-and-click adventure, and you can see the whole thing play out in the video up above.
For anyone unfamiliar with the GB Camera's software, the Hot-Spot feature allows you to place invisible buttons on your images which take you to another photo, essentially letting you create mini presentations. You can also make use of sound effects or fade-in effects, which have been expertly used in Twardosz's 'Attack of the Fluff Monster' creation.
You can do some seriously amazing things if you have enough imagination, that's for sure. Great work, Karolina!
Thanks to Lucas for the tip!
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This reminds me of some very similar game on mac computers ages ago. Forgot name tho
It's a pretty solid use of the Hotspot feature, that adventure probably used up all 30 photo spaces that the Game Boy Camera can hold though!
So even the frames that show text count as separate photos.
My brother and I used to do this all the time, basically my intro into game dev lol
That's awesome, I had no idea game boy camera was capable of stuff like this.
I spent most of my time playing Ball with my dad's face on the character 😅. That and printing out pictures
I made something like this on my original GB camera I had way back. It was inspired by Myst. Cool to see someone getting recognition for this!
I have since bought a new GB Camera and absolutely love it and didn’t realize how much I missed it. Want to start that project to build an arduino interface to export the photos from it.
I wish I had my old photos from my OG GB camera.
Very cool what some people can do with a little bit of creativity and effort.
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