A downloadable game

This Game Boy® demo ROM, includes 15 levels (last 5 are more difficult), and the endings have been removed. The full physical game cartridge includes 100 levels, and multiple endings.

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Save Me Cows!™ is now available to pre-order; ships in August 2025.

Save Me Cows!™ is an action puzzle game in the ChuChu Rocket!™ genre. The game includes a physical cartridge (Game Boy®, Game Boy Color®, and compatible systems), instruction manual, box, and some fun stickers.

You star as a cowpoke working for Edgar, a world renown rancher and 4 time alien abductee. Tasked with using your bovine sensibilities to save his prize cattle, place arrows and special tiles to direct all cows to the exit, and collect the stars. 

Save Me Cows!™ features 100 mind bending levels, detailed pixel art, 100% custom assembly code, multiple endings, hours of fun, with original chiptune music. It's Game Boy Color® compatible, and has monochrome palettes for DMG, Lite, and Pocket. And best of all, it's suitable for all ages!

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bbbbbr1 day ago (2 edits)

Enjoying the puzzles of this game, the music and the idea. As with the other comment, would be cool to have a digital version.

Now, some unsolicited suggestions :)

I’m finding the button mapping kind of frustrating (and maybe somewhat outside normal conventions). Keep mis-pressing Select trying to toggle between Select and Edit and fumbling with B Pick-up behavior, etc.

Currently:

  • Start: Info screen
  • Select: Starts cows
  • A:
    • In Select Mode: Toggles to Edit
    • In Edit Mode: Places
  • B: Toggles between Select/Edit, and simultaneously Picks-up objects when over them in Edit mode

Would prefer something like this:

  • Start: Starts cows
  • Select: Toggle between Select/Edit
    • Select held + Start: Restart level
    • Select held + B or A: Show help screen
  • A: Places
    • No auto toggle of Select/Edit
    • Does auto-highlight next available item in Select bar if present
  • B: Picks-up
    • No auto toggle of Select/Edit
    • Does auto-highlight whatever was removed in Select bar

Also getting some exceptions in BGB and Emulicious (DMG and GBC modes). I have exceptions turned on for development and so in bgb some of these pop up as dialogs whenever trying to run the game.

  • Invalid VRAM access
  • OAM 16 bit increment bug
  • Reading from non-initalized WRAM
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wavedout1 day ago(+1)

Is there a way to pre-order a digital copy? Would love to support this project

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BrewOtaku - The Homebrew Gaming Magazine1 day ago

Once it's shipped, give us a kick :-) The game itself is nice!

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