Dana Puch, a game developer from Barcelona, has created several homebrew games for the Game Boy. He’s wrapping up work on his most ambitious project for the handheld yet, The Shapeshifter…in which you play as Elliot, just a normal dude out on a normal camping trip. What’s AB-normal is when an elf shows up, tells Elliot that he is the only one who can save elf-kind from an evil wizard, and grants him the magic power to turn into different animals. Elliot can’t just mess around with his new gift…it’s temporary and will only last through the night. He must embark on his journey and defeat the wizard before the sun rises!
The Shapeshifter has performed so well that it made its most ambitious stretch goal weeks ago: a port of the game to the NES. However, the NES game is not part of the current package, as you can’t just recreate one system’s game on another system in a day. The Game Boy and the NES use different processors and languages. The NES version will eventually have its own...
