GB Studio: Drag and drop retro game creator for GameBoy
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HN comment orderI haven't really looked into it in detail, but AFAICT GB Studio is honestly incredible. I program the Game Boy as a hobby; this machine has basically no RAM and a CPU that's - depending on how you measure a "cycle" - either ~1MHz or ~4MHz, with a shockingly limited and non-orthogonal instruction set (and don't even get me started on dealing with bank switching). Historically games for it have been almost exclusively coded in assembly. And yet someone's come…
Oh hey, Hacker News! Just wanted to say I've been really pleased with how this project has been received, wasn't expecting it to blow up this much! My Github issues list is going crazy right now! :-D It's been a side project of mine for quite a while as I was learning Electron and C/GBDK at the same time so don't judge me too harshly on the code hehe. It's early days for the project so not quite decided how…
Game Boy and NES were my first consoles, but being an avid retro gamer in these days (hail RetroPie!) I must admit SNES and Genesis is as far back as I'm willing to go. The 16-bit era is when consoles got really good and there are too many games from this period I'm still discovering. I could only dream about a tool like this for SNES games. There's a lovely scene still making awesome games and cartridges for Genesis (with…
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
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| 2019-04-17 | Show HN: GB Studio – GameBoy Game Maker for Windows, Mac and Linux | chrismaltby | 5 | 0 |
| 2019-04-20 | GB Studio: Visual Programming-Based Game Boy and Web Game Maker | izuchukwu | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-04-22 | GB Studio – Retro adventure game creator for Game BoyFirst breakout | tosh | 295 | 29 |
| 2021-04-29 | GB Studio: A game maker for the Game Boy | azhenley | 250 | 53 |
| 2023-06-17 | GB Studio: Drag and drop retro game creator for GameBoyHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | CharlesW | 376 | 48 |