Extending AGB examples for beginners

[ASoldo]

Hi everyone, I'm new to agb and Rust in general and wanna learn Rust with fun projects. I always wanted to make games for Nintendo console and GBA was my favorite of them all. After looking at docs and examples for agb I found that its missing things like this:
https://pixijs.com/examples/

I have some time to spare and was wondering if I can contribute to docs with examples for majority of features that agb offers and how to use them?

So far I'm digging through game examples that already have ton of logic there and it's time consuming while I need only one thing from that game (etc. how to work with tilesets).

Is there anyone here that can answer some of my noob questions so i can start preparing examples like hello_world and tackle each api section as simple program that demonstrate that feature?

I just want to have good and simple examples that can speedup learning process so I can start making games.

[CombustibleToast]

I had the same problem as you when first starting and I somehow stumbled across this: https://agbrs.github.io/agb/introduction/introduction.html
It got me just enough information to get started with agb. Hope this helps!

[ASoldo]

Hi @CombustibleToast, I've read that from cover to cover, but it just scratched the surface. It just started and immediately stop.
Book covers how to start and is pretty easy but examples are made by pro people and stuff they used are not commented nor documented. I've spent whole week to go through each example project, dig through all files (.rs, .aseprite, .tmx...) in order to get some samples of features they used in their game.

I've managed to make simple demo with backgrounds (bg0, bg1, bg2, bg3), sprites, window1, window2, animation, sounds, theme sound, Tiled maps and InfiniteScrolledMap. GBA Game Demo

I am stuck now at InfiniteScrolledMap and I need some feedback and some guidance how to approach this.
If i wanna make some kind of Zelda: A link to the past inspired game where rooms are much bigger then the screen, how do we make that top down setup where player can move from border to border and backgrounds and sprites that are not player move out of the screen as player moves away?

Do we move our player or do we scroll background layers and sprite layer faking the movement?

[corwinkuiper]

If you have agb specific questions, then we might be able to help. If you have Rust or general game development questions then we won't be able to help.