The study of Independent Development based in Barcelona, Greenboy Games , is specialized in the development of Game Boy games and since 2018, they have not stopped launching interesting proposals that have triumphed in Kickstarter. Dana Punch already got a great success with where is my body?, With about 12,000 euros on a baseline of 4,000 euros.
Its original mechanics requires two Game Boy cartridges The triumph of its proposals in part lies on the platform for which they are developed, Game Boy, who have managed to continue alive and receiving new releases , As is the case of The Shapeshifter, an ambitious adventure that brings us to a world of fantasy in a real universe . Our protagonist was Elliot , a young man who during a break in the mountains knows an elf that requires the help of him to save the world. This gives it great power and the ability to become any animal that touches , a power that vanishes at dawn.
The platform adventure, puzzles and exploration has now announced a sequel, even more ambitious, so much, that requires two Game Boy cartridges , although the reason does not have to do with space, but with An interesting and novery mechanics game . The Shapeshifter 2 is the second of a trilogy that started with the first The Shapeshifter, which was the only game of Game Boy to have a codes wheel.
We will have elections that will serve to develop different stories The Shapeshifter 2, will be the only game Boy on having two cartridges to develop their history and, everything has to do with an original mechanics of Choose your own adventure . Throughout the game, we will find situations in which we will have to make a decision, after it, we could be requested to change cartridge and enter a simple code to continue, developing a completely different adventure . From Green Boy they have insisted that it is not simply several different finals, but of completely different stories from beginning to end. The game is still in the early stages of its development but it is already a success in Kickstarter, where it has collected today more than 30,000 euros of the 6,000 euros that the project required.
Passion for retro games and consoles for decades have stopped growing, with items like a new laptop compatible with Game Boy and HDMI output that caused a feeling among the players of the Nintendo laptop. That studies like Green Boy continue to keep consoles as Game Boy is a perfect way to remind us of the importance of the preservation of the legacy and the history of video games.
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