Retro game maker GB Studio gets a big upgrade

By Liam Dawe - 14 December 2021 at 12:02 pm UTC | Views: 12,499

Want to make retro games? How about making games on Linux that can be played on a Game Boy or the upcoming Analogue Pocket? GB Studio is your new best friend and a huge new release is out. A free and open source app (MIT license) developed by Chris Maltby, it's pretty fancy and incredibly easy to use too.

Some of what's new in GB Studio 3.0 includes:

Export for Analogue Pocket.

Parallax scrolling backgrounds.

Sprite animation editor.

Large sprites.

Music editor.

Multiple fonts.

Custom emotes.

GBVM scripting language.

Check out their short video on the new release:

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Download from itch.io. The official Linux builds are for Debian / Ubuntu and Fedora / Red Hat, although extracting the .deb file on Arch and running the binary works just fine.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Apps, Game Dev, Misc, Open Source, Retro

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About the author - Liam Dawe

I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly came back to check on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly. Find me on Mastodon.
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