Emmy's Lab Escape
It is the year 2X8X. Many things have changed in the world, but one thing hasn't: the predilection of people to gather once a year based on a shared interest.
That's what led Emmy, self-proclaimed Queen of Science and regular violator of the laws of physics, to attend the XXth Annual Mad Scientists' Convention. It all seems to be going well...until she ends up trapped in a demonstration lab!
And to make it worse—or better?—she's not alone.
It wouldn't be a convention of mad scientists without more than a bit of chaos, would it?
Emmy's Lab Escape is a short and silly top-down adventure game for the Game Boy created for AestheticJam: Labcore and Josei Jam 2024.
Features:
- Zero actual scientific research
- One (1) sokoban puzzle
- A throuple whose idea of fun is making everyone else's lives worse
- Some backgrounds I spent way too much time on for what the final products look like
Controls:
| Game Boy | Keyboard | |
| Move | D-Pad | WASD or arrow keys |
| Interact/Confirm | A | Z or J or Alt |
| Cancel/Back | B | X or K or Ctrl |
| Save Game | Start | Enter |
| Reset Block Puzzle | Select | Shift |
Assets used (click to view)
- Top Down Followers by Shin
- GBS Sans by Joel J Games
- Our_Distant_Future_8x8 by MxAshlynn
- Text frame by 2bitcrook
- GB Studio: SciFi Tiles by The Pixel Nook
- GB Studio Buildings by The Pixel Nook
- GB Studio Open Tilesets by Elvies
- GB Studio 7-11 Tileset by Reakain
- World tilesets remastered by MonkeyImage
- 2BitCharactersGenerator by 0x72
- Sweet Sounds! by Coffee 'Valen' Bat
- alarm SFX by krümel from GB Studio Community Assets
- GB Studio Tracks Vol. 1 by Mr. V
- 8-Bit Gameboy Songs Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 by TipTopTomCat
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Development log
- 1.1 Update - Bugfix37 days ago
Comments
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Cuuuute! I appreciate the attention to detail in the writing—like how there are special lines depending on whether you already have the screwdriver or not. Makes the world that much more alive.
Funny, I restarted the game after finishing to see if I'd missed anything in the lobby. Everyone was invisible. I saved and quit and when I reloaded, the robot and the Attendee were following me around everywhere!
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the game! I had a lot of fun writing the script, so it's nice to know it comes through!
I'll see if I can get that bug fixed, definitely nobody is supposed to be invisible or following you around in the lobby... 😅
Hey, it took me a little bit, but I've fixed the save-related bugs! No more unexpected followers :)
That was fun! Can I ask how did you get the actor to follow during the box push level?
I used the Top Down Followers plugin! The page says it's for GBS 3.2 but I was able to upgrade to 4.0 without issue :)
Glad you liked the game!