This blend of capability and limitations, in addition to being highly portable and widely emulated, makes GBA dev a very rewarding experience! Yet its 32-bit CPU is powerful enough that you can program for it in high level languages such as C, C++, Rust, Zig and Nim. It upholds the graphical techniques of the 8/16-bit era, such as hardware-accelerated tilemaps, sprites and palettes.
The Game Boy Advance is a wonderfully unique, fun and accessible machine to develop for. You have 3 months to make something cool that runs on the GBA, using whatever tools you like.Ĭome join us on Discord for help getting started, and head over to for useful links & resources! This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Game Boy Advance! To celebrate, we're running a homebrew compo.
