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he/him Making new games for the Nintendo GBA E-Reader and the GBA proper. https://retrodotcards.com email matt@retrodotcards.com

A competitive game of Pixel Pup being played on the MiSTer. It shows both players side by side on the same screen. They are playing on the fantasy board and each player has placed some tiles.
Gameplay of Pixel Pup for the Game Boy Advance. The player is solving a 10x10 puzzle in the entomology puzzle pack while upbeat but cozy music plays.
A screenshot of Pixel Pup for the Game Boy Advance. A nineties puzzle is being played on the Macintosh desktop. A mini Franny icon is in the upper right corner, and a blown up view of it is shown.
The online tile viewer with the game Advance Wars loaded. The tile viewer is showing tiles 769-800, with tiles that show fonts, and other graphical assets such as character portraits.
The Atari 800 computer with its cartridge door open to show the dual cartridge slots.
A mock up of a Game Boy Advance strategy game. It shows the main gameplay on an overhead map. The left side is a forest, and the right is a desert plain, there is a river cutting through the middle. To the left are the heroes, and it is Tril's turn. He is figuring out where to move. To the right are three goblins, the enemies of the map.
Me holding up The King of Fighters '94 for the Neo Geo.
A screenshot of Pixel Pup for the Game Boy Advance. It shows a 20x15 puzzle with a single row that has a 20 hint. The 20 is a bit wider than other numbers, making it stick out a tad, but not too badly.
A close up of a Pixel Pup nonogram board, showing the 20 hint rendered as two separate numbers so that they are wider than 5 pixels.
Gameplay screenshot of Pixel Pup, a nonogram game for the Game Boy Advance. It shows an extra large puzzle (20x15) being played. One row has a "20" hint number, and the screenshot shows the 20 blown up large to show how it was drawn in such a tight space.
A close up screenshot of the Pixel Pup win dialog. It shows a solved puzzle, a cockatrice. the cockatrice is bouncing up and down and flipping in celebration of the win. Each time it does that, it alternates between its black and white puzzle and the fully colored in version.
Gameplay of Pixel Pup for the Game Boy Advance. It shows the classroom setting with Franny the dog as a teacher sliding in at the start of the puzzle. The player makes a mistake right away, so it shows her sad face out floating in air, and Franny glides into it.
The South Park "and it's gone" meme. It shows a guy at his computer, staring out pensively. The caption says "turn it on ... aaand the batteries are dead"
The Pixel Pup beta cover. It shows an illustration of Franny the dog on the left, with the Pixel Pup logo below her. To the right are three screenshots of the game.
A screenshot of Pixel Pup for the Game Boy Advance. It shows the win screen of a solved, 20x15, puzzle. It is set in the art museum theme. The puzzle is abstract and looks similar to some of Jackson Pollock's paintings.
A photo of Pixel Pup playing on a real Game Boy Advance. It shows a completed random puzzle. The word "clear!" is very large and dominate, and the title of the puzzle, "random 1390" is just below. The image of the solved puzzle kind of looks like a sand sculpture or something.
A screenshot of Pixel Pup for the Game Boy Advance. It shows an "extra large" 20x15 puzzle being just started, with none of the board filled out. The clock reads 98:55.
The "kombucha girl meme". It shows two panels. The first panel shows a woman with a disgusted face and the caption "Finding a bug deep in the core of the game engine that should have never happened." The second panel shows the same woman with a pleasantly surprised face. The caption reads "Fixing it fixes several other bugs"
A screenshot of Pixel Pup for the Game Boy Advance. It shows an extra large, 20x15, puzzle, being played in the Windows 95 nineties puzzle pack.
A comparison of two very similar songs. The first is a song made by MasterSwordRemix for Saltydkdan's YouTube channel. The other is the background music to the e-Reader game Bomb Hunter. Bomb Hunter's music was made by Nintendo.
Gameplay of the Game Boy Advance game, Pixel Pup. It shows two player competitive mode with the two players racing to solve a puzzle. The lower player fails the puzzle, and the upper player wins.
A screenshot of a YouTube comment. It says: "Just a simple port of Snake will do" Shan Mansell - "You insult me, sir"
a short clip of Pixel Pup gameplay. It shows a lady bug hanging onto a floating dandelion seed and gliding by through the air.
Gameplay of Pixel Pup for the Game Boy Advance. It shows choosing an entomology puzzle. Once playing the puzzle, it shows a blue butterfly landing on Franny the dog's nose, an orange butterfly landing on a flower. Dandelion seeds slowly drift by in the wind.
Gameplay of Pixel Pup for the Game Boy Advance. It shows the intro to the Taiyaki puzzle pack, with Franny the dog splashing down into the ocean in her scuba gear.
A screenshot of Pixel Pup for the Game Boy Advance. It shows the classroom mosaic with none of the pieces solved. This mosaic uses small, 5x5, pieces, so the overall mosaic is quite small on the screen.
Gameplay of the game Pixel Pup for the Game Boy Advance. It shows starting at the title screen, going into the random menu, choosing medium, and then playing a random medium puzzle.
A screenshot of the upcoming game Pixel Pup for the Game Boy Advance. It shows a 5x5 nonogram where every column and every row is "5", meaning the entire board is to be filled, and thus a very uninteresting puzzle.
A screenshot of Pixel Pup being played in two player competitive mode. The top player has 27 minutes left on their clock and has filled in some of the board, while other parts of the board have been filled in by the other player. The bottom player sees the opposite view, and their close is at 23 minutes.
The "being held back meme". In the first panel it shows a large yellow ball and a man who is reaching out for it, excitedly trying to get it. The ball is labeled "high quality audio" and the man is labeled "GBA game". In the second panel, it is revealed two pink monsters are holding the man back, keeping the yellow ball just out of his reach. The two pink monsters are labeled "CPU" and "link cable"
Two player Pixel Pup gameplay on real Game Boys with a link cable.
Game play of Pixel Pup for the Game Boy Advance. It shows two player mode being played over a link cable. Each player is filling in the same puzzle, and each player sees the other player's movements and changes.
A trailer for the early release demo launch of Pixel Pup. It shows a single puzzle being solved while the background changes through all the various settings in the game. The demo can be downloaded at : https://city41.itch.io/pixel-pup-demo
A screenshot of Exo Attacks' high score board, focused on Jeff scores. The first place score is by Cocojuju13, who got to round 127 and 726 coins. Second place is fickle at round 42 with 117 coins, and third is atrocity3010 at round 36 with 102 coins.
A screenshot of Pixel Pup's setting screen. The clock duration row is highlighted, and it is currently set to 60 minutes.
Game play of Pixel Pup, showing hint numbers being checked off manually.
Pixel Pup being played on a large tv.
The swimming pool meme. The adult is holding up a child in a swimming pool. The adult is labeled "GBA CPU" and the child is labeled "MAIN GAMEPLAY". In the foreground, another child is visibly in distress and labeled "SOUND EFFECTS", sitting at the bottom of the pool is a skeleton labeled "THE MUSIC"
A screenshot of one line of code for the game Pixel Pup. It is a function called "dragon_snort".
Pixel Pup, a picross-style game for the Game Boy Advance, running showing its title screen.
A screenshot of Pixel Pup for the Game Boy Advance. This is the title screen, showing the game logo on the left, a puzzle on the right, and "press start" at the bottom. The background is a pattern background of CD ROMs.
A screenshot of Pixel Pup's tutorial, because why not? It shows Franny the dog teaching the player about scratching out (x'ing out) tiles that they know are not part of the solution.
A screenshot of the Game Boy Advance game Pixel Pup. It shows the puzzle menu with 16 puzzles to choose from, and Franny the dog to the left, holding a paint brush and paint can. Everything in the scene is completely black, due to running out of palettes caused by a bug.
The Office handshake meme. It shows a confident man in a suit shaking hands with a man who is clearly unsure of himself. The confident man's caption is "a new feature in the game", and the unsure man's caption is "it works by pure luck"
An overview of the cards and some game play of the soon to release Game Boy Advance e-Reader game, Dizzy Sheep Disaster Ex.
A screenshot of the Pixel Pup tutorial. It shows an elementary school classroom setting. Franny the dog is the teacher and she is standing on a stool, pointing at the dry erase board with her pointer. The board contains a puzzle and some text explaining the basics of play. Franny has a speech bubble explaining to the player what to do. It says: "The 5 means this whole column gets filled. Fill the column in with the A button."
Game play of the Game Boy Advance game Pixel Pup. It shows the start of the tutorial. It is a classroom setting with a dry-erase board on the wall. Franny the dog is the teacher and guiding the tutorial.
Trailer for the e-Reader e-Reader, a book e-Reader for the Game Boy Advance e-Reader. It shows scanning in a card to read a book on the GBA, and several books for it such as A Tale of Two Cities and War and Peace.
Game play of the upcoming Game Boy Advance game, Pixel Pup. It shows a puzzle being solved and as tiles get filled in, the hint numbers on the sides grey out as the tiles satisfy their requirements.
Game play of Pixel Pup for the Game Boy Advance. It shows a fantasy puzzle pack being played. There is a dragon flying, castles, towers and mountains going by down below, and off in the distance a witch flies by. There is music playing while the player solves the puzzle.
A screenshot of OpenMPT, a music tracker often used for GBA games. It shows a sequence of notes going down the screen across four channels.
An ereader demo showing a half transparent background on top of another one. The bottom background is a desert scene, and the upper background is vegetation which is scrolling horizontally.
A demonstration of a sprite on the e-reader with half transparency set. It shows a desert scene with Franny the dog scrolling by. She is half transparent so the desert scene is shown through her.
A screenshot of Pixel Pup. It shows a puzzle being solved in the The Nineties pack with the classic Mac desktop theme. The current row and column are both highlighted in red, using sprite transparency.
Marge Simpson holding up a manhole ereader card. The caption says "I just think they're neat!"
At the Ann Arbor Game Fest. A person is playing Pixel Pup on a monitor using a Super Nintendo controller.
A screenshot of Pixel Pup for the Game Boy Advance. It shows a 10x10 nonogram being played in a fantasy setting. There is a green dragon flying to the left, a mountain scape down below with a castle and tower, and clouds in the sky.
An in game dialog of Pixel Pup that says "Continue with unfinished Entomology puzzle?" with the choices "yes" and "no"
Flyer for the Ann Arbor Game Fest. It says: Inaugural Swap Meet March 22 2026 Weber's Boutique Hotel and Restaurant 3050 Jackson Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48103 10 am with VIP access at 9am $5 cash admission / $15 vip
A screenshot of the Neo Geo game The Last Blade. It shows two fighters, Juzoh and Hyo, about to fight. They are standing on a red wooden bridge over a creek, and there is a city scene in the background with many people watching.