About

Excelsior is a gameboy color game made in GBStudio, where the player is a puzzle adventurer exploring converted towers in a richly built scenic backdrop.

With puzzles adapted from celebrated writer Arthur DiBianca's puzzle IF game Excelsior.

Status

Excelsior now has a public demo. Unfortunately the Kickstarter did not reach its funding goal, and so we will be looking at other avenues for our game development direction and Excelsior will be put on hiatus for the foreseeable future. Please enjoy the demo in its final form, and we thank you for your interest.

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Controls

GameboyKeyboard
Interact/Use Current ItemAZ
Cycle Current ItemBX
Pause MenuStartEnter
Interact ModeSelectShift
MovementD-padArrows/WASD
More information
StatusIn development
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
AuthorsPolyducks, Lance Campbell, Zenadu
GenrePuzzle, Adventure, Role Playing
Made withAseprite, Paint.net, GB Studio
Tagsanalogue-pocket, Game Boy, Game Boy ROM, gbc, gbstudio, Pixel Art, pocket

Download

Download
Excelsior-demo_v3.1_001(ks demo).gbc 512 kB
Download
Excelsior-demo_v3.1_001(ks demo).pocket 512 kB

Install instructions

.GBC file with an emulator: follow the instructions of a popular Game Boy Color emulator, such as VisualBoyAdvance.

.GBC file with hardware: Compatible only with hardware which supports colour. Use a flash cartridge such as the EverDrive to run the game on real physical hardware. Follow the instructions for your device of choice.

.pocket file: Use this file for the Analogue Pocket, following its instructions for saving ROMs.

Development log