Atop the Witch's Tower WS
A downloadable game
Your name is MARY. You are a WITCH, and you find your perspective compacted to the size of a small, relatively niche handheld!
This is Atop the Witch's Tower WS, a port of the short, lovely ZZT game by John Thyer to the WonderSwan and WonderSwan Color. It also serves as a proof of concept for running ZZT games on the WonderSwan in general, as well as for the upcoming toolchain I'm working on.
This project wouldn't have been possible without the efforts of Dox, trap15, FluBBa, Godzil, GuyPerfect, Near, and many others who helped figure out the WonderSwan's mysteries; as well as developers who maintain important components of the toolchain, most notably TK Chia. Thank you! I would also like to thank jix and Tharo for the support and trust placed in me.
In addition, I'd like to personally thank the modern ZZT community for being awesome as always.
This is only the beginning of what can be done with the WonderSwan - stay tuned, or find out what's already being done!
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Install instructions
Use a WonderSwan flashcart (at least 32KB SRAM) to run this game on physical hardware. Alternatively, you can use an emulator to run it on a PC - Mednafen and Ares will run the port with decent accuracy.
WonderWitch is not supported at this time, but an alternate WonderWitch version may be provided in the future.
Development log
- Atop The Witch's Tower WS v1.1Mar 29, 2023
- Atop The Witch's Tower WS v1.0Dec 11, 2022
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Hi, I just found your game on itch by searching wonderswan and I haven't heard of any indie games for this console before and think it is awesome you are developing for it! I believe it was Gunpei Yokoi's dream to make the ws and it is an 8-bit portable console of genius to all who learn about it. I don't have one yet, but when I get one and can flash a game, your title is on the top of my list. Being a gameboy game developer I am highly interested in this type of console. Merry Christmas, and I will be staying tuned to see what your work creates next.
There’s hundreds of indie games for the WonderSwan - it even had an official homebrew devkit, the WonderWitch. It’s just that there are very few such titles made after the console’s life and/or in the Western scene, which makes sense given its lack of release outside Japan and a few Asian markets.