Right around the 30th anniversary of the release of Nintendo\u2019s iconic handheld, game developer Chris Maltby has released a free tool to create Game Boy-inspired games.<\/p>\n
The project is a visual game builder called GB Studio<\/a> and launched as a free download last week. It\u2019s a project born from a Game Boy-inspired game jam, and one that aims to offer a way for anyone to build playable, 2D adventure games with no programming knowledge what-so-ever.<\/p>\n The tool is a little limited in what it offers and is designed to create top-down 2D JRPG-styled adventure games. Because of that, however, GB Studio is accessible to those with any level of game development experience.<\/p>\n Any project created with the visual game builder can be exported as an HTML5 file, which allows it to be played in a browser or uploaded to sites like itch.io<\/a>, or a ROM that can then be played through a Game Boy editor or on the actual hardware itself via a flash cart. <\/p>\n