About the Game: 
Created as a passion project, the Game Boy Camera Gallery is a cute virtual gallery space filled with photos taken on well...the Game Boy Camera! Featuring over 40 photos from more than two dozen photographers, the gallery recontextualizes the Game Boy Camera from a quirky peripheral to a unique art medium in its own right while still maintaining the "funtography" attitude. Oh, and there are a bunch of secrets. 

Along with the more accessible web browser version, The Game Boy Camera Gallery will let folks view the Game Boy Camera photos in their intended format on actual Game Boys with original custom cartridges of the game available for purchase.

About the Camera:
Nintendo released the Game Boy Camera in 1998 in Japan, the US and the EU, allowing Game Boy owners to take photos right on their devices. At the time it was actually the world's smallest digital camera. It features a ball head atop of the cartridge that can swivel 180 degrees, making it also probably the first selfie camera, too. Photos were originally only sharable on other Game Boys via a link cable or printable using the Game Boy printer, but using a modern cartridge flasher or other 3rd party hardware you can transfer the photos from the cartridge onto your computer.

The photos themselves were limited to 128x112px rendered in a 2-bit palette of only 4 values. Despite those limits, there were powerful features included on the cartridge like the ability to create pseudo double exposures by merging multiple photos using the 'fusion' effect, a paint tool, a time-lapse and panorama function, and it even included the ability to create animations. Oh, and there is an odd music creation program to boot!

Today the GBC has a cult following by retro enthusiasts and photographers alike, with folks drawn to its simplicity, unique pixelated aesthetic and the desire to preserve this hardware and push it to its limits. All the photos for this project were sourced from friends and members of the Game Boy Camera Club discord. There will be future iterations of the project (hence the "2022"), and information about new versions will be announced.

The GBCG 2022 was created in GB Studio 3.0, assets were created in Aseprite.
Developed by Cat Graffam
Music by Eric Gardner
Box art cover by d4ng3r
thank you to Zoe f Wolf and Izzy Kestrel for troubleshooting