What is Dr Coomer Neopet?

-An image of the main screen for Dr Coomer.

-An image of the shop screen for Dr Coomer.

Dr Coomer is a project that I originally created using Python with Pygame somewhere between 2020-2021. The project was originally made as a joke based on the YouTube series 'Half Life VR but the AI is self-aware'.

The version seen here is a port of the project to the GameBoy Advance using Butano.

From making this, I've learned that creating GameBoy Advance games in the modern day is actually surprisingly simple due to modern open-source development tools provided by the community.

However, the documentation for these tools was very "utilitarian" in the sense that it gave the absolute definition of what something did, with minimal examples or explanation for what it meant, which did lead to me spending much longer than usual going between reading the documentation and fiddling about to fully understand what something did. Really makes me realise how much I've taken the Microsoft documentation pages for granted.

As well as that, it may have been an issue on my end (but I have no way of knowing), the .clear() function for vectors simply did not show up in intellisense, so even now .clear() shows an error in VS Code, however the code will still happily compile from the command line. That may have taken me an hour or two to figure out due to some very lacking documentation.

Regardless though, the mere existence of Butano definitely made GameBoy Advance development something that was actually feasible for me, and perhaps in the future I might return to the console to make something else, because this was certainly a fun challenge in places.

(I also really wanna try to find a GBA and flash cart so that I can test this on real hardware because that would just be the coolest thing).