Bestel is a dark fantasy platformer with souls-like elements created in GB Studio for the Game Boy Color. The name Bestel comes from the Late Cornish word for ‘bile’, hinting at the game’s black humour.
This is a short playtest demonstrating the aesthetic and game mechanics.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Bestel was very much intended as a learning project; a way for me to get familiar with GB Studio while building a game, and I therefore wanted to use pre-existing stock assets wherever I could in order to save time. I have done my best to list all of the asset artists below:
BACKGROUND ELEMENTS
aamatniekss
Corwin ZX
Cyangmou
Szadi art.
FONTS
Edo999
MxAshlynn
MENU ITEMS
Kicked-in-Teeth
MAGGOT AND CROW SPRITES
Deep-Dive-Studios
Corwin ZX
SFX
Coffee ‘Valen’ Bat
Tronimal
This game was developed on the traditional lands of the Narungga people.
Game, music and sprites (apart from those listed above) by Orlando Mee.