Background Scrolling - How GameBoy Graphics Work Part 3

Published: 06 July 2023
on channel: System of Levers

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Part 3 of a series explaining the basics of GameBoy graphics. This video covers scrolling.

Part 1:    • How GameBoy Graphics Work Part 1: Tiles, P...
Part 2:    • Tile Maps - How GameBoy Graphics Work Part 2
Part 4:    • The Window Layer - How GameBoy Graphics Wo...

If you want to know how I implemented a very large 4-direction scrolling "game" you can check out https://www.systemoflevers.com/blog/2....

For technical details about scrolling on the GameBoy, a good place to start is https://gbdev.io/pandocs/Scrolling.html.

If you want to see some example GameBoy assembly code for scrolling I have three demos implemented:
https://github.com/systemoflevers/scr...
https://github.com/systemoflevers/scr...
https://github.com/systemoflevers/scr...

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Video Chapters
0:00 Power on
0:14 Introduction
1:19 What is scrolling
2:29 Looping
3:40 Side scrolling games
5:31 Two direction side scrollers
6:51 Four direction scrolling
7:51 Room based scrolling
8:46 Conclusion

The GameBoy style video of me was processed using ffmpeg and Python.
The intro music and sound effects were made with https://github.com/shamblesides/apu-l..., but it's played as an mp3.
Other music was made with GB Studio https://www.gbstudio.dev/
Pixel art was drawn using Pixel Studio   / pixelstudioteam
The video was produced with OBS for screen capture, kdenlive for video editing, and audacity for audio editing.

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