Quality Seal

You could maybe add the resolution preconised for the screenshots and specifications (as you done for titlescreen.bmp) for the recording

You write tileset.psd but any reason for the psd ? why not png for example ? it's because it's the source of the asset and have to be converted to be used ?

binaries/MyGame/ICON.BMP is writen 2 times

Another question but probably because i have a little brain: i see TITLESCREEN.BMP and i understand why but no idea for the TITLESCREEN.GMV (i don't remember the use)

It's all i see for the moment about this "Seal of Quality" and i think it's a very good idea to have write it quickly  ;)

It's a draft, thank you very much for your feedback, we'll improve it over time :)

I fixed ICON.BMP thanks

For tileset.psd it's a photoshop format... it's just an example. The idea is to put the source of the assets (if any), not the final exported assets. This way if anybody want to edit them it's easier.

You didn't see the note about the GMV files ? It's not clear ?

Sorry Rodot, i missed it... The note is clear. No problem exept my attention on the text (sorry).

Not sure but you could maybe add a part on the start commentary with recommandation on the form

(Title, version, date of creation, author, source if any or modification of an existing open code to standardize a little but it's not very important as it could be in the game description too

No problem at all, I added "see note" so people dont miss it now :)

You mean explanation about the form on the Create page ? We're going to improve the creation page for it to be self-explanatory, it won't need no manual ;)

Use the default 80x64px resolution and use the Official Gamebuino Palette (follow the link to see why).

Wait what ?
I actually thought the 160*128 with 16 indexed color (which is the Gamebuino Palette, no ?) would be the "norm" ?

And that 80*64 would be the "other norm". Is this why i only see 80*64 in the mockup thread ?

Even if i see plenty of awesome things there i'm more locking forward to 160*128 games. Don't you think this would make people only do 80*64 games ? (even if it's not bolded and not mandatory this seems heavily suggested).

I already feel that the 160*128 is really underused and i fear that it would become worst with that.

Other than that it's an awesome idea. Games will be clean and looks more polished like this and it'll help a lot to have the same "structure" when you add a game to your Gambuino.

Also the "seal of quality" reminds me a lot of the NES area. And that's not a bad thing !

Well yes we prefer the 80*64px resolution over 160*128px because:

• It's close to the Gamebuino Classic resolution (84*48px)
• It's enough to fit plenty of things now that we have a color screen, cf the mockup thread
• It forces people to draw "big" stuff so it's readable even with old eyes (the screen is 1.8", not huge)
• It enforces actual pixel art (I'm not saying you can't do pixel art with 160*128px, but the more pixel people have the more lazy they get on the pixel art)
• It makes pixels more visible on the 1.8" screen, so even old eyes can rejoice on good pixel art
• It's 4x faster. Don't get me wrong. Sending the buffer to the screen is always the same time because we convert it to 160*128 while sending. But when drawing to the RAM buffer, it's 4 times less pixels to refresh.

But you are free to go off-palette and off-resolution ;)

And yes "Seal Of Quality" is pretty retro, but doesn't seem to be trademarked by Nintendo so I thought it was a cool name. Kudos to @Valden for the suggestion!

I knew you were about to include something like this!

All BMPs I try to create for TITLESCREEN.BMP or ICON.BMP crash the Gamebuino META as soon as it tries to display them. Is there a guide how to save the right format, or how to generate the .GMV files off-device?

e.g. as soon as I scroll to a position in the loader menu where a part of my icon would be displayed, the menu freezes. If my application was open and I add the title screen, turning the Gamebuino META back on freezes it on a black screen where it would normally display the title screen.

I've tried BMP export in Pixelmator and Preview but I am comfortable with the command line if there's a bullet proof way to convert to the right format using CLI

Some things to check:

• 32x32 res
• 24bit depth (RGB, no alpha channel)
• Make sure to properly unmount the SD card after copying the files over

You could also just copy and edit a working icon from another game :-)

Ooof, invalid BMPs shouldn't crash the loader. Would you mind sending them to me somehow so that I can look into it?

O.K i'm the most lucky dude on the planet i've done everything (maybe) fine

BUT everytime i launch the game i have a white screen 11 time on 12 

here is the content of the file with the game 

rename rmkebab.ino.gamebuino_meta.bin to rmkebab.bin, that filename is probably way too long

steel not :/

Here, these are the BMPs crashing the loader: http://wolkenspeicherplatz.de/stuff/crashybmps.zip

Thank you, I was able to find and fix the issue:

It was a problem within the library itself where BMPs with negative height weren't supported correctly. BMPs with negative height are supposed to be flipped, so I added support for that now in the library, and tried to recompile the loader and it is working. Since I didn't update any binaries....just wait a bit for that to distribute! ^.^

EDIT:

Also, the loader didn't crash. It just thought it had to convert 65535 frames......which takes ages, lol