BPCore Engine Skill

Comprehensive guide for building Gameboy Advance games using the BPCore Engine Lua framework.

Overview

BPCore Engine (Blind jumP Core Engine) is a Lua game framework for GBA that combines C++ with embedded Lua, letting developers create games without C++ or compilers. Inspired by Pico-8 and Tic80, it's suited for small minigames given the GBA's limited resources: 240x160 screen, 16.78 MHz ARM7TDMI, and 256KB RAM for Lua/data.

The engine provides sprite rendering, tile-based graphics, entity management with collision, button input, UTF-8 text, audio, save/load via SRAM, and multiplayer through the link cable. The build system uses Lua to package resources into ROM.

API Reference

Entity Functions