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Broken Circle
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Genre: Action, Adventure, RPG
Platforms: PC
Languages: English, Italian
Players: Single-player
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16 May, 2016 @ 10:19pm
11 Oct, 2017 @ 11:42am

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Description
Broken Circle is an Unreleased game for the Gameboy Advanced developed by 7 Raven Studios.

The game is a turn based RPG which is based in the Norse Mythology.

The tale tells the story of the land of Midgard; it was never a quiet land of peace as many wars have raged in the land. In recent months violence of both man and monster has escalated, monsters have become far more dangerous. Earthquakes began to shake the land. Prophets have claims that this is the sign of Ragnarok, the day where man and monster alike will die in the end. Friends and foes alike will cross your path, will you survive your journey to do battle and vanquish Hagen the wizard necromancer the apparent cause of the disruption in Midgard? Or will the Hunter beast from Hell that is stalking you stop you in your travels?

Game will feature

-Save States
-Controller Support
-Trading Cards
- English, and Italian Language

Game is Single player

=Back story of the game=

In 2004 Elvis Morelli , an artist entered a competition and gained a development contract from an important publisher (we prefer to do not show the name) to create and publish his game. It was fortunate for me that although he was great at artwork he lacked the programming skills needed for the project. My name is Francesco Marra, the ownere of 7 Raven Studios Co. Ltd. The development was hard and complex but when it was completed the publisher unfortunately declined the game for publishing due to a change in policy "we have changed our policy and we do not accept any more 3rd party software we know you won the competition but we can't take it now."

Even though a contract was in place any further actions were futile so it was decided to look for another publisher. Being a very large and complex game it was decided to amend the cartridge size. A file system and advanced compression method was used to reduce the size, all sprites was reduced and a special routine was added to the tools to create some special table taht skip equal or flipped animation frames. The size of the cartridge was reduced to 64mbits.

With the GBA nearly at the end of it career with Nintendo it was too late to get a concrete offer for the title. In short it was a great experience to make the game which used the GBA capacity to the full

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18 May, 2016 @ 7:37am
This is just TOO convenient/ a history of Piko Interactive.
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39 Comments
Piko Interactive  [author] 13 Jul, 2017 @ 11:50am 
for GBA? yeah
Crashed 13 Jul, 2017 @ 8:51am 
IS the source code available for that GPL core?
Piko Interactive  [author] 13 Jul, 2017 @ 7:56am 
The Bubsy Emulator (after resolved issues) uses several GPL cores. GBA without the need of BIOS included. It would be the same source that Bubsy uses but with the GBA core included.
Crashed 3 Jul, 2017 @ 9:30am 
Not concerns about emulator licensing like what happened with Bubsy Two-Fur? (where is the source code for the modified GPL code?)
Piko Interactive  [author] 3 Jul, 2017 @ 9:17am 
Hello, We might pass on this game because of there has been a lot of new projects that have taken priority.

Crashed 1 Jul, 2017 @ 8:40am 
It says it is Greenlit. Perhaps due to the final pre-Direct approval?
Are you still planning to release this game?
chusmaverde 16 Jul, 2016 @ 3:12pm 
If the graphics could be updated to nowadays standards it would be a great improvement. Specially taking into account this is another realse from a game that is 12 years old.
candinhoff 11 Jul, 2016 @ 9:35am 
Norse mythology is greate!
1121 Studios 20 Jun, 2016 @ 12:47am 
Love that norse mythology! Upvoted! :steamhappy:
KEN1METAL 20 Jun, 2016 @ 12:00am 
I want to try! upvoted!!