Big2Small
A downloadable game
Big2Small is a new puzzle adventure game where you try and guide the animals to their corresponding food of choice, releasing soon on physical carts for Game Boy, Dreamcast, and N64. Preorder here!
Travel through forests, farmland, sewers, and more to help Elle the elephant, Gisele the goat, and Melanie the mouse find delicious food in 40 unique puzzles. Use each animal's different abilities together to manipulate and maneuver past rivers, mouse holes, giant pipes, shrubs, mousetraps, and other obstacles.
The Big2Small ROM for Game Boy is free, and should work in any Game Boy or Game Boy Color emulator (or even on real hardware, if you have a flash cart). SameBoy is a great emulator option.
Some of the art/music assets in Big2Small were derived from CC0 or public domain sources. A special thanks to ArMM1998 and Pixel Pete in particular for sharing some of their great work for free use!
Status | Released |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 total ratings) |
Author | mdsteele |
Genre | Puzzle |
Tags | Game Boy |
Code license | GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL) |
Asset license | Creative Commons Attribution v4.0 International |
Average session | A few minutes |
Languages | English |
Links | Homepage, Source code |
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Absolutely incredible puzzle game here. Up there with the likes of Miyamoto's work, which is about as high praise as I can give. Move over Mole Mania, these 3 animals mean business.
Thank you!
I'm back and this time I'm even morer stuckerer!!!!! Any tips on the last Neutrino Station level would be veeeeeery much appreciated! My brain is frazzled!
Some high-level hints for Final Countdown:
For a more detailed outline, here are the steps you'll need:
Good luck!
Many many thanks for a fabulous game Matt and all the help you've given. Top man!!
Hi there,
Heeeeeeellllp!!!! I've managed to plough through this fab puzzler on the Evercade. I've got to Neutrino Station : Vacuum Pressure. I'm totally stumped......any assistance greatly appreciated!!
Thanks in advance for any tips.
Yeah, Neutrino Station pulls no punches. (-: Here's a rough outline of what you need to do on Vacuum Pressure:
Hope that helps, but happy to give more details if you're still stuck.
Thaaaaanks so much, you're both a superstar and a fiend my friend! Made it through to the final stage which looks an absolute doozy!!!!
Just finished this game on Evercade. It's magnificent. Up there with Baba Is You and A Monster's Expedition.
That is high praise, thank you!
I'm stuck on the level with the mouse goes under the wooden fence and there are cows and a barn and omg.........
Happy to give hints or solutions if you want. (-: Is it "Out to Pasture" that you're stuck on? (the first level in the farm area)
The level is Out to Pasture.
But actually I'm a puzzle game developer myself. I bought the game from John Roo himself.
If you have a level editor or something I could actually make more levels using the same engine.
Thanks for buying the game, and hope you like it!
For Out to Pasture, the rough outline of what you want to do is: (1) Bring the mouse around the edges of the screen to the top area, and have her help the elephant get to the peanut. (2) Send the mouse back around the edges of the screen to the bottom, then enter the fenced-in area from the bottom. (3) Use the mouse to help get the goat to the apple. (4) Finally, have the mouse exit the fenced-in area through the upper mouse hole, which puts her right on the cheese.
(Not sure if that's helpful at all, sorry; let me know if you want a more specific hint.)
If you're interested in modding the game, the code for the level layouts is here and here. There's no level editor, unfortunately; my (somewhat ad-hoc) design process was to brainstorm level ideas in a generic tilemap editor, then just type them by hand into the source code, and tweak them from there as I play-tested.
I can get the goat to the apple and the mouse to the cheese, but I can't get the elephant to the peanut. I almost think its impossible.
If you make a level editor for the game, I can make additional levels. I'm a puzzle designer, but need the level editor to build the levels. Sure I could just change the values in the source code, but that's hard.
From the start of the level, move the mouse east, north, west, then south. Move the elephant east, then north (putting her on the cheese). Move the mouse west. Move the elephant south. Move the mouse east, north, then west. Finally, move the elephant north, then west, putting her on the peanut. You should be able to get the rest from there. (-:
How do you complete Neutrino Station???? I've been stuck on it for a month and it is driving me insane!!!
Haha, I promise it's beatable, but happy to give hints or solutions if you want. (-: Which puzzle in Neutrino Station are you stuck on?
Currently I'm stuck on Phase Relay
Yeah, that one's hard. Here's an outline of what you need to do:
How'd you pick DC and N64 as targets?
Those were selected by my publisher, The Retro Room.
Do you know why they chose them? It's just a curious choice, since a GB port would fit more on NES and SMS.
Are you doing the ports, or RetroRoom?
edit: Oh, figured it out. Both DC and N64 have GB emulators, so they're not ports, but the GB ROM shipped with an emu.
Very underrated game. I think because of the missing fancy artworks here on itch. I like the gameplay even better than pineapple kid. Add me on social media @skite2001
Probably the best Gameboy home brew I’ve played. Really fun puzzle game :)
Thanks!