A JavaScript Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator for iOS, based on the GameBoy-Online emulator core.
If you just want to play Game Play, you can find it online at https://gameplaycolor.com.
Check out the project, update the submodules, install the brew-based dependencies, and install the additional Python dependencies:
git clone [email protected]:gameplaycolor/gameplaycolor.git
cd gameplaycolor
git submodule update --init --recursive
scripts/install-dependencies.sh
It may be necessary to install pipenv as follows:
pip3 install pipenv
Game Play is built using a custom Python build script which inlines and minifies HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and binds in the settings for a given deployment.
For example, building the release version of Game Play as hosted on gameplaycolor.com can be done by running the following command from the root of the repository:
scripts/gameplay build settings/release.json
The build will be created in the build
directory, and a corresponding *.tar.gz will be created in archives
, tagged with the git sha and settings name (e.g., build-168bd9d0d8d309a1efb1983bd61ec34ff22951b5-release.tar.gz
).
The gameplay
build script includes a lightweight server for local development:
scripts/gameplay serve
This does not automatically build the project, so it's necessary to build the project using the instructions above whenever you make a change.
The main
branch is automatically deployed using continuous integration at https://app.gameplaycolor.com. You can find an auto-gemerated changelog at https://gameplaycolor.com/changelog/.
Many thanks to:
- Grant Galitz for the GameBoy-Online emulator and core.
- Pedro Ladaria for writing the JSGB core which served as inspiration for the first version of Game Play.
- David McLeod for graphical inspiration on Dribbble and for letting me know about MicrogrammaD-MediExte.
- Paul Ledger for suggesting the name 'Game Play'.
- Pavlos Vinieratos for help and suggestions testing early builds.
- Game Boy and Game Boy Color are trademarks of Nintendo Co., Ltd.. All rights reserved.
- Downloading copied ROMs is illegal: only use images you have created from ROMs you own yourself.
- InSeven Limited is an independent software company and is in no way affiliated with Nintendo Co., Ltd..
Game Play and its dependencies are licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more details.
Game Play includes the following third party sources:
- jQuery - Copyright (C) 2013 jQuery Foundation and other contributors
- GameBoy-Online - Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Grant Galitz