GB Studio, a tool to create your own games for the Game Boy

Industry video games has evolved very quickly in recent years and video game players now enjoy some of the most advanced gaming experiences that were hard to imagine a few years ago.

There are still some stores or companies who specialize in the distribution and sale ofe retro video games. Although many prefer to download them from the network. But DLet me tell you that it is also possible that you can create your own retro game.

This week, Chris Maltby presented GB Studio, a tool free open source qwhich will allow you to create retro adventure video games for the Game Boy.

«GB Studio started with several disconnected scripts and tools that were eventually used to create Untitled GB Game, a week-long game for Bored Pixels 3. A pixel art video game with the theme» Game Boy «.

After completing the jam, I realized that with a little work, I could get the tools in a state where they could be used by other people, maybe even people who had never previously created This app is the result of this effort. I hope you find it intuitive and fun to use «, said Chris Maltby.

About GB Studio

GBStudio is a game creation app built with Electron JS, the GitHub team framework for building cross-platform desktop applications (Windows, Mac OS, and Linux) with web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) and a C-based game engine that uses GBDK.

Music, within GB Studio, is provided by GBT Player which is written in Assembler language, is a music creation environment for GB and GBC.

It is composed of mod2gbt, which converts a mod file to a gbt file (GameBoy Tracker) and the GBT player will be used to play this song in GB.

The tool, such as the present its editors is relatively easy to use on the various platforms it supports, such as Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

According to the GB Studio design team, The software allows you to create real ROM files that you can then boot into any supported game emulator.

In order to do a little recovery, the files with the ROM extension can be associated with different uses. This extension is particularly used for Nintendo 64 game ROM files.

These types of ROM files contain game data for the Nintendo 64 video game console, allowing the user to play N64 games on a computer at the same time using an emulator.

A tool even for newbies

Chris Maltby and other contributors list several benefits for GB Studio. They cite in the first position its ease of configuration.

In this sense, they announce that GB Studio does not require complicated dependencies to install as it is just one application with everything you need to get started.

In addition to being built for the Web, the software does not require any programming knowledge, which is fun for many.

GBStudio it comes with a web emulator that works perfectly even on mobile devices. You can quickly export your games to play them in a browser or even download them on Itch.io.

Furthermore, GB Studio is also designed for those who are not familiar with computer programming. As GB Studio hides much of the complexity of creating GB games.

Its main characteristics include:

• It allows you to build your graphical interfaces in any editor capable of generating PNG files, such as Photoshop, Tiled, Aseprite, etc.
• Includes project examples to get started quickly
• gives you the ability to create 2D JRPG-style adventure games from scratch
• allows you to create an HTML5 readable game that also runs on mobile devices and can be deployed to any web server or downloaded at Itch.io
• It supports macOS light and dark modes.

How to install GB Studio on Linux?

If you are interested in trying this open source Game Boy game creation tool. Will you be able to do it downloading the built packages "deb or rpm" and install them in your distribution.

The link to get them is this.

For Arch Linux users, Manjaro, Antergos or any other derivative can install the tool from the AUR repositories.

We are just going to open a terminal and type the following:

yay -S gb-studio