Dune Drifter - DEMO

Dune Drifter is a puzzle game for the Game Boy Advance. Not a game that looks like one — an actual GBA ROM that runs on real hardware.

You wake up in a desert and you're told to find the gods. There's no combat. You explore ruins, solve puzzles, collect star shards, and climb toward a distant spire.

And you can do one thing nobody else can. The desert lies to everyone — it shows them walls and paths that aren't really there. Hold B and you see the truth underneath.

This is the first area, start to finish. It ends where it ends.

CONTROLS

Game Boy Advance	Keyboard
D-Pad	Arrow keys
A — talk	Z
B — hold to see the truth	X
L — tether	Q
R — tether	E
START — Backpack	Enter
SELECT — put the crates back	V

Walk up into a ruin doorway to enter it. Walk onto a house door to go inside. Inside a ruin: START restarts the puzzle, SELECT leaves.

There is no save. It's about half an hour.

HOW TO RUN IT

Download the zip and open the .gba file in a Game Boy Advance emulator — mGBA (mgba.io) is free and good. Or put it on a flash cart and play it on a real GBA.

Every sprite, tile and animation frame is hand-drawn by me. None of the art is AI. I'm not a programmer — the C++ is written by an AI assistant from designs I describe to it. I designed the game and I drew the game. I'm learning to code so one day I won't need the help.

Made with Butano. Drawn in Piskel, built in Tiled.