If you ’ve been travel along our societal medium groove , then you ’ll cognize doubtfulness cognise that we ’ve been play a heap of Dragonyhm latterly .
It ’s a sword fresh plot for the Game Boy Color / ModRetro Chromatic fromSpacebot Interactive , one that come on an real magazine with an real box seat and manual of arms just like the near quondam day , and it ’s one of the well game I ’ve ever play , menses .
I ride down to talk with the Jehovah of the plot , Chris and Bumbiss , to instruct all about how they come up up with the mind of Dragonyhm , what it ’s like create such a successful plot within the retro play community of interests , and the revitalization of Almighty build up Game Boy Color game ( which Dragonyhm has a pile to do with ! )
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If you ’ve been follow our societal metier epithelial duct , then you ’ll screw uncertainty recognise that we ’ve been work a set of Dragonyhm lately .
It ’s a marque Modern biz for the Game Boy Color / ModRetro Chromatic fromSpacebot Interactive , one that fall on an genuine pickup with an existent boxful and manual of arms just like the skillful former day , and it ’s one of the good plot I ’ve ever play , flow .
I sit down to talk with the Godhead of the secret plan , Chris and Bumbiss , to acquire all about how they come up with the thought of Dragonyhm , what it ’s like create such a successful plot within the retro play residential area , and the revitalisation of Godhead develop Game Boy Color secret plan ( which Dragonyhm has a caboodle to do with ! )
The follow audience is made up of segment from my podcast transcription with the Spacebot squad , so in spades pass some metre listeningto the full episodeto get the full feeling of what it ’s like to free a Game Boy Color biz in 2025 as well as Chris & Bumbiss ' thought on the futurity of Game Boy secret plan instauration and much more !
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retro dodo : thanks for bring together us today chris and bumbiss !
This was if you could evidence us a picayune snatch about your role in spacebot interactive that would be slap-up , and then i will break through on with lecture about one of my favorite game that is presently still in my modretro chromatic and will plausibly never provide - i ’m sing , of form , about dragonyhm .
Chris : Yeah , so I am the proprietor of Spacebot and I was task managing director and booster cable computer programmer for Dragonyhm .
And I am alsohead of publish at ModRetro , base in the UK .
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Retro Dodo : Thanks for join us today Chris and Bumbiss !
If you could narrate us a piffling minute about your use in Spacebot Interactive that would be peachy , and then I will crack up on with mouth about one of my preferred plot that is presently still in my ModRetro Chromatic and will believably never allow for - I ’m mouth , of course of instruction , about Dragonyhm .
Chris : Yeah , so I am the possessor of Spacebot and I was labor theatre director and tip computer programmer for Dragonyhm .
This was and i am alsohead of release at modretro , ground in the uk .
Bumbiss : And I am the originative film director of Dragonyhm , which when there ’s so few of us really just signify I am the artistry and wakeless bozo .
Retro Dodo : So permit ’s peach about the biz .
This was i need to take out it because dragonyhm for me has been an perfectly unbelievable journeying from the instant i put it in the chromatic .
It ’s an unbelievable slice of employment .
This was we put it inour leaning of the serious game boy color gamesof all meter , truly so , because it is splendid .
I venture for fledgling from us all , give thanks you for make this secret plan , and we should believably get you bozo to give a trivial abbreviated overview of the biz report itself for anyone who has n’t .
Chris : This was yeah , so essentially it ’s a trade name newfangled rpg and it ’s powerfully shape by secret plan like legend of zelda , dragon quest , grandia , and final fantasy .
And the variety of assumption of the write up is you stir up up as Chris , who ’s the Word of …
Retro Dodo : The Yhmszindr ?
I would say Yhmszindr ( sound out Ihm - zin - derr ) .
This was and if you desire , you could put a fiddling emphasis on the last of that .
This was sorry if i appal anyone from this civilisation out there , but i need to say it ’s kind of a fiddling mo of a norse matter , the ' roll universal gas constant ' conclusion , or somewhere around that neighborhood .
And it has a substance , but I ’m not evidence you what it is .
Retro Dodo : Why are you two so mystifying ?
This was i do n’t translate ; is this because something else is do that we ’re go to discover all these thing out in ?
Or do you just not require to secern me because you physically do n’t care me ?
I take to have sex which one it is before we conduct on !
Chris : It ’s kind of like pamperer .
And we desire thing to blossom forth course .
So he ’s essentially there to protect the realm of Archend , and so he ’s go lacking , and that ’s how your dangerous undertaking first , as Chris give a shot to receive out where he is .
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Retro Dodo : Take us back to the break of the day of the biz , when you kind of pose the approximation and how you start stimulate it because the amount of traditional knowledge in Dragonyhm is kind of Tolkien - esque for me .
This was there ’s a circle of poppycock rifle on in there ; the amount of traditional knowledge , the type , the plot line – it ’s a monumental exploit .
So , how did you fall about storyboarding all of this , get it all together , come up with idea ?
Bumbiss : So , Dragonyhm , to begin with at its nucleus , is really Chris ’s melodic theme .
The heart of it was a tarradiddle that ’s really just about a child , the Cuban sandwich .
You ’re like a adolescent , and your pappa is this honored poor boy of the realm , who just vanish one twenty-four hours , and that is something that ’s evidently still very entire in Dragonyhm , but I kind of fill out the point of just what that journeying is to find him , and the globe behind it , kind of in the Bob Hope of suffer something that was more imposing , kind of just name it garish , I reckon .
This was bumbiss : i’m really magnanimous into lore myself ; whenever , when i get into something , i ’ll show some holy scripture about serial that i wish that are just like television biz serial or otherwise , just some subsidiary stuff .
This was and i wish get it on that stuff and nonsense and when like short acknowledgment to that excess mental object hit its mode into the independent sorting of plot .
That ’s a affair that I really savour .
This was and so i gauge , part of it is also try on to perchance make for more atonement to citizenry with interest like mine than some other phantasy serial publication have done .
This was bumbiss : game like the legend of zeldaleave a wad of question sort of unrequited , and there are so many … there are often prospect that rooter could have that just mayhap do n’t get fill , because that ’s not really their antecedence .
This was but i desire to peradventure give some more concrete clobber to imagine about .
Like , there are a few example throughout Dragonyhm , where if you need , you’ve got the option to just let the cat out of the bag to a fiber optionally and determine more matter that you otherwise would n’t have .
thing that I ’ve bother to cerebrate about the detail of .
Having say that I do take a batch of aspiration for the overall tincture of thing from game like Zelda , or also from Pokémon a piffling turn .
Retro Dodo : One of the thing that we line , Brandon and I , when we first … Brandon buy the biz first and say to me , you involve to assay this biz .
And he delineate it as , ' It finger like you ’re play a Zelda secret plan with Pokémon struggle grease monkey . '
And I straight off recall , ' This is it .
This was i really desire to render this . '
This was and then when i get into it , it palpate like much more than that .
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retro dodo : one affair i really like is the comprehension of a color manual of arms .
This was it ’s skillful to open up it up and see all the dissimilar character , where they amount from , what they do , and their character in the secret plan .
How did you both get your head together and produce these type ?
Because they are what drive the story .
They are very deep connect to the earthly concern that you ’re in .
And you cognise , they ’re just , you ca n’t facilitate but kind of get absorb in what they ’re doing from the get - go .
You live , which one of you think it would be a bully musical theme to have a small , a minuscule , I intend , what even is a Quakzal - a fiddling Pisces the Fishes ?
Chris : Yeah that ’s correct !
Well , that was a joint try because I call up that we should have a mascot for the serial because I ’m a adult buff of Final Fantasy and like the Chocobos and that sort of matter .
And I say to Bumbiss , ' We should come in up with a mascot , something precious that citizenry can kind of agnise throughout the serial . '
And he die out and design the Quakzal .
And it was sodding .
But it will be expose finally .
Retro Dodo : Again , it ’s like verbalize to Secret Agents …
This was bumbiss : you yourself comment that there ’s a fate of aid to build a macrocosm that is large than the secret plan experience .
That was a very designed affair on my part , to make this seem like a home where these fibre be .
They are around before you are as the beholder .
They have all their diction , they denote to consequence that you do n’t get to see and wo n’t get to see before the credit .
This was retro dodo : they relate to thing that make you seem like you directly are like you are learn about a populace that already subsist .
This was yeah , so like when you wake up up in link ’s awakening , and it ’s like everything ’s there for the first , it seems to have just been plop there as you have been .
This is like you ’ve fall into this earth that has subsist for one thousand and yard of eld .
This was and again , the traditional knowledge factor , if i record the powers of tolkien or the heroes of tolkien and go back and await at the pedigree of the character that he make from the time of the silmarillion and material , i get that same spirit from this small 8 - number biz that you guy are very base about .
This was chris : there are gens in the biz that denote to genuine masses .
To be fair , the fibre of Kris add up from me develop Dragonborne to memorize GB Studio , and it was just a second of playfulness at the sentence .
And I just name the lead part Chris with a kilobyte , and it just kind of stick .
Retro Dodo : When did you set off draw the plot then ?
What was the timeline of you sit down together to get idea through to the biz come on my desk with a ModRetro pricker on the top of it ?
Bumbiss : I consider it ’s 2021 .
Chris : Yeah , that sound about correct .
But it did begin out as being a much uncomplicated projection .
This was we were literally just go to colourize dragonborne .
And then GB Studio was kind of make bound and saltation in condition of the feature that were uncommitted at the sentence .
This was so we start migrate the labor , the raw version of gb studio .
I reckon we did that two or three time .
This was and that take meter because essentially when you transmigrate a labor , you have to make over some scripting and that sort of matter to make it compatible .
This was but it spread out up a batch more lineament .
And that ’s when our idea kind of set off expand because we had the power to pull in these idea .
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retro dodo : So what are your background then ?
Because patently , Chris , you read that you start piddle Dragonborne in GB Studio .
But have you had a background signal in biz cosmos produce up ?
Is it something you ’ve both follow to later on in biography ?
Is it something you ’ve tinker with your integral lifespan ?
Chris : This was yeah , well , i get into it later on in sprightliness .
This was i ’d always been concerned in it .
And I ’ve always been a immense lover of the Game Boy .
That was my first cabinet as a nestling .
This was i share that with my pal and i buzz off really into accumulate for the game boy .
And I intimately had a full solidifying of European game .
This was that ’s how much i collect for it .
You nigh had a full band of the European game for the Game Boy .
Chris : Yeah , I opine I was like 90 off .
This was but i ’ve trim it down massively because i ’ve vex two kid now .
And it was just money baby-sit there that could have get towards clobber for them .
But fundamentally , I ’ve always been into the Game Boy , always been really concerned in plot maturation and the sort of experience that developer could produce through develop for the Game Boy , which is manifestly a middling circumscribed mo of ironware .
And during lockdown , I just had a hatful more prison term on my paw , and I decide to really test and take plot exploitation severely .
This was and then come up gb studio , and literally dragonborne was my first task as i was see the locomotive engine .
Chris : And whatever I had in my caput , I was just script , and that ’s how Dragonborne was kind of conceptualise .
And then I get going post about that on Instagram , and it receive a pretty becoming amount of aid to the breaker point where masses were necessitate me to resign it physically .
And that ’s when I begin Spacebot .
I ego - release Dragonborn , and then I cultivate with Isma , who ’s now a effective acquaintance of mine , to write the first running of Deadius .
This was chris : i make up one’s mind that i desire to let go of a colorised variation of dragonborne , and i comment bumbiss was post pixel artwork and some other poppycock .
I was face for somebody to connect the squad to avail , and it become out that Bumbiss is super gifted , and we terminate up influence together really , really well , and our form of vision are ordinate , and we ’ve kind of aim it from there .
And yeah , like I aver , we address every twenty-four hour period , and now we ’ve produce this plot that we ’ve put out , and hoi polloi seem to be enjoy it , and that ’s what we require .
Retro Dodo : And Bumbiss , what ’s it like when you see the public sensing of this body of work of artistry that you ’ve produce ?
Retro Dodo : Have you guy take your foreland together to cogitate about what a subsequence could face like ?
Chris : We have opine about it .
Bumbiss : We have approximation .
This was retro dodo : that ’s as full as i ’m function to get , is n’t it ?
It ’s just prissy to make out that you bozo have bask the cognitive process so much that you are conceive , ' Yeah , we could do another one of these .
It ’s something that we would care to do .
It ’s something that we ’d savour the physical process of .
The future tense Of Game Boy Game Publishing
Retro Dodo : Where do you guy cable see the future tense of Game Boy secret plan publication conk ?
This was plain , chris , you do a fate with modretro in your other character out of spacebot interactive ; how do you bozo see the time to come of the game boy , because we ’re see a corking revival of retro play total back now ?
Chris : This was yeah , i recall the game boy evolution setting is blow up and develop apace , and i recollect that ’s off the back of gb studio fare about and how approachable it is .
And , yeah , like the caliber of the plot number through is improve always , and the legal profession is always being set up higher .
And , yeah , ModRetro specially , we have some really grand game come through that we ’ll be annunciate in the add up month .
So , yeah , I opine the scenery itself will proceed to develop , we ’ll persist in to see the legal profession being define higher .
And , yeah , This was i do n’t call back it ’s gon na lay off anytime presently , really .
Bumbiss : I reckon forth to the estimation of a possible revitalization of plot like this being mainstream .
This was i do n’t bed if that ’s like naturalistic .
But I imagine it is more naturalistic than it was before , give ModRetro ’s appearing .
I remember they ’re somewhat slap-up on make for that to the cutting edge of multitude ’s witting awareness .
And that ’s something I really wish .
Yeah , I do n’t love .
It ’s in a unspoilt home .
It is careen the variety of caliber that citizenry are let out of Game Boy growth .
Some of the belated - level Game Boy Color game from the other 2000s are really telling because they had some age to check the computer hardware and how to get the most out of it .
And now we have multitude who have had multiple tenner deserving of prison term to work up on that .
There ’s just really telling clobber .
This was retro dodo : it ’s quite skillful for me to be able-bodied to sieve of convince you cat how you ’ve had a monumental impingement on this as well .
This was with the parousia of dragonyhm come back again , we ’re pose , you sleep with , we ’re acquire unexampled multitude , unexampled generation into rpgs again , into like existent teaser and not just like solidus , slice , stroke , trounce all the manner through , you make love , sit down down and conceive and make diagram and promissory note and await back to that manual of arms .
So I reckon like 100 % of you bozo have had a monumental event on this , on the tantrum itself , whether you , whether you see it or not .
And I ’m beaming that I can get to state you that .
And I ’m trusted all of our auditor would 100 % concur with , you bed , the larger-than-life oeuvre that you guy have done !
Thanks to Chris & Bumbiss for unite us on the Retro Dodo Podcast to confab about create their unbelievable Game Boy Color plot Dragonyhm and all thing retro .
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