KEYBOARD CONTROLS

Start (begin game): Enter

A (confirm/progress text): Alt / Z / J

B (speed up text without progressing): Ctrl / K / X

Up: Up Arrow / W

Down: Down Arrow / S

Left: Left Arrow / A

Right: Right Arrow / D


Halcyon Winter is coming, and you need to take a photo of a kingfisher.

You've taken an internship at a nature magazine, and your boss is an angry man with an unusual fixation on orange and blue birds.

The only the problem? The local kingfisher is... a bit of a handful. Can you help her overcome her existential crisis and take the perfect photo to please your editor?

This short visual novel takes around fifteen minutes to complete, is build to run on original Game Boy Color hardware, and features two possible endings.

PS: There's nothing wrong with your speaker, this game currently has no sound. It's probably for the best, given the kingfisher's singing.

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorVideoGameStoryTime
GenreVisual Novel
Tags8-Bit, Animals, Cartoon, Game Boy, gb-studio, Multiple Endings, Pixel Art, Retro, Short

Download

Download
Halcyon Winter.zip 204 kB
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Halcyon Winter.gbc 512 kB
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Halcyon Winter.pocket 512 kB

Install instructions

This game is provided as a ROM file for Game Boy. You will require a emulator (such as Virtual Boy or Retroarch) to run this file.

Comments

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This was a lot of fun and I loved the pixel visuals!

Thank you very much! Those pixels took a lot of work, I'm glad they were worth it! 😂

Personally attacked.

Good stuff. Love the art style. Definitely needs instructions for the web version though.

(+1)

Thank you! Your Stevens games were actually a partial inspiration for this, so it means a lot to me that you took the time to play it!

<3

Really funny, and a great use of GBStudio for Visual Novels. I've become a huge fan of kingfishers :)

Thanks! And yeah, kingfishers are amazing! But they probably don't eat burgers in real life!