The Year After by Hadrian Lin

An emotional Gameboy experience about an invisible stranger, a family and a brutal winter. Walk through time. Seasons pass. Characters age.
Playable in half an hour. Mostly linear with a few secrets.  Clica AQUI para jogar em PortuguêsJouez en français iciInterested in translating? Email me “hadrian lin games at gmail” (No spaces)
Art, music and code by Hadrian Lin. 
Made with GB Studio and Javascript hacks for sound and color overlays. (Thanks to Ben Grabau for technical help accessing Gameboy memory)
This is an authentic Gameboy game that runs in the browser, with an emulator or on original hardware. 
CONTROLS

• Arrow Keys / WASD to move
• Z / J / ALT to interact
• x / k / CTRL to toggle walk speed

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THE YEAR AFTER – CARTRIDGE VERSION (GB / GBC with Sound)
Pre-order a physical collector’s edition, published by Incube8 games ! 
It is upgraded from the beta ROM and has:

• Chiptunes
• Color
• Diagonal movement 
• High-quality mp3 sound by connecting Gameboy audio out to mic line-in of a computer or smartphone. (Experimental feature)

Get the cart here.Get the full ROM here.

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If you feel like dropping a donation to help me make more stuff please click the donate button under the game or down below. 
Donate more than $9 and I will make a pixel portrait of you (16x16px 4-color) and post it here.   Sorry, not doing portraits at this moment! Please check back in the future. I may do some more intermittently.

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ADDITIONAL SOUND CREDITS

• Additional sound effects and music from Freesound.org:

  • InspectorJ ( www.jshaw.co.uk):

  • Ambience, Wind Chimes, A.wav

  • Ambience, Peaceful Synth.wav

  • Bell, Candle Damper, A (H1).wav 

  • Johnny Holiday: Dark ambience.wav

  • Erokia/Jordan Powell:  Ambient Wave 3 (Harmonics)

  • eric5335: meadow ambience.wav

  • be-steele: Malamute Dinner Music > Igor3B.wav

  • GoodListener: Stable Noises- Birds and Horses Neighing.wav

• Additional sound effects from  https://www.zapsplat.com

Download BETA ROM here