Alternatives to GB Studio
Make Game Boy-style games with a visual editor. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
GB Studio
Make Game Boy-style games with a visual editor.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as GB Studio.
GDevelop
Build games with a visual event system instead of writing all the logic as code.
GDevelop uses a visual event system without Game Boy constraints and exports to several platforms, with hosted services such as cloud publishing subject to plan limits.
Godot Engine
A 2D and 3D game engine that is completely free under the MIT licence, with no royalties and no revenue thresholds.
Godot is a full 2D and 3D engine under the MIT licence with export to desktop, mobile and web, but it expects scripting rather than purely visual events.
Bitsy
Create small games and stories with a browser-based pixel-art editor.
Bitsy is a browser-based pixel-art editor for small games and stories with a deliberately smaller feature set suited to short narrative projects.
LOVE
Framework for making 2D games in Lua.
LOVE is a Lua framework for 2D games running on desktop and mobile, with no editor, scene tool or asset pipeline, so all logic is written as code.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Gearboy
An accurate Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Super Game Boy emulator with a built-in debugger.
Emulicious
A free multi-system emulator for Game Boy, Master System, Game Gear and MSX with debugging tools.
PCSX-Redux
A PlayStation 1 emulator forked from PCSX, built with debugging and reverse engineering tools.
