Embark on a new adventure on every playthrough. Find equipment, meet all sorts of NPCs and of course battle your way through a short 10 chapter randomised story!

Select a random character from a huge roster of characters all with unique starting stats, get a random set of equipment, ability and items and head out with your random friend. Who will you meet along the way and how will you best the various fights?

Build all sorts of character builds by stacking equipment to complement unique playstyles. There are many NPC events that can occur and many of the NPCs will revisit you with either vengeance or support. Learn the various characters weaknesses to magic to do better on each run. Or if you're having trouble, throw on some cheats!

A full run of this game can span between 4-10 minutes depending on how your luck rolls, with as much variation per run as I could handle to throw into it during the dev time. Its built for casual play in mind, but should offer a surprise each time. The more you learn the easier it gets too.

Web Controls:

Directions - directional arrows

GBA A button - X keyboard button

GBA B button - Z keyboard button

Note: this a Gameboy Advance rom, so to play just download and throw it into your favourite GBA emulator(e.g mGBA).  This is an entry into the GBAJam24 event. If you're curious how to make a game like this, check out Butano engine which I used to make life easier on this project. Web version is running in a modified version of GBA.ninja (https://gba.ninja/) by Simon Paris which is based on VBA-M (https://vba-m.com/) by Forgotten and the VBA/VBA-M development teams.

Enjoy! If you beat the game, let me know in the comments what character and build you were rocking :D

Download

Download
Forever RPG_jam.gba 2 MB

Install instructions

Thanks for downloading! Now kick open a GBA Emulator to play this game :D

mGBA is the emulator used to test this project on, so I'd recommend it.

Enjoy!

-Matt

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I think there is possibly a bug? I'm running this on my Anbernic RG35xxSP, Anbernic's Gameboy advance SP form factor emulator. I can load the game, select a character. After reaching chapter 2, the game just freezes and I have to reload. I'm running MuOS, and I believe the default emulator is mGBA. Game looks really cool though!

I'm currently in the process of porting it over to PC and have definitely found some issues I have no idea how they worked when testing haha. Thanks for the bug spot, I'll try fix it for the GBA version when I can. I was testing on mGBA on pc, but maybe those issues I found are treated much worse on the different OS