Take Game Boy Camera-Style Selfies With This New Web-App

The cyberspace, as we all know, is filled with all kinds of crazy websites and web-apps. We have not only seen websites that self-destruct but also those that tin generate realistic "acquisition annunciation posts" of big tech companies. Now, if you want to have some more fun and get on a nostalgic trip, you can practice so with this new spider web-app that lets you lot take Game Boy Camera-fashion pictures.

Now, if you are unfamiliar, the Game Boy Photographic camera (GBC) was an additional Nintendo accessory for the Game Boy console. Information technology was released back in 1998 and let users accept selfies to impress them on thermal newspaper with the Game Boy Printer.

The new web-app, created by coder & animator maple "mavica" syrup (@maplesbian on Twitter), lets y'all use your webcam to take some unique selfies that reverberate a retro Game Boy Camera-style image construction.

it's washed!!

i've implemented all functions i wanted to my web gameboy camera app and it seems to be working alright

please let me know if you observe whatever bugs and do share pictures, i'd dear to see them!https://t.co/E1xJh6Ev0e flick.twitter.com/ThvGqB2QSj

— mavica.bin ⚢🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇷🔞『robot VTuber』 (@maplesbian) Oct 18, 2020

Before taking the selfies, you tin even manipulate the effulgence and the contrast of the image to further fine-tune your prototype. Moreover, you tin modify the color pallet of the paradigm to give it a unique touch.

The cosmos of this super-absurd web app, every bit explained by mavica, was inspired past a similar app, the "Interstellar Selfie Station", that released dorsum in 2014. It was created past a developer named Christine Beloved.

"[She'd] made the app dorsum in 2014 only after a few months, information technology got pulled off app stores. I found the original app when I was just starting my transition and the depression-res pictures helped a lot with my dysphoria, so it meant a lot to me and I've wanted to recreate it in some form ever since then," wrote the developer.

Mavica stated that she completed the development of the web-app over the course of a weekend. She also explained that the app is entirely "client-sided" and photos tin be stored anywhere in the users' devices. "It's all simply a unmarried page with some basic javascript," she added.

And so, if yous want to take some quirky, pixelated, Game Boy Camera-style selfies, you can caput straight to the website from right hither.