How to make a GameBoy game in 2024 - GB Studio 4.0

In this video I go back to basics and show you around GB Studio 4. We start by opening the sample project and poke around before playing it. We then talk more about scenes, actors and events.

I hope you found this useful, let me know where you are in your GB Studio journey in the comments!

Thank you for the continued support!

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:20 What is GB Studio? - Getting Started
00:53 Exploring the sample project, exploring the editor
01:49 Playing the sample game
03:31 Moving through the game with change scene events
04:29 Interacting with actors, trigger boxes and player controls
05:58 Scenes - Background images, collision and scene types
08:51 Player and actor sprites
09:58 Playing to test and exporting your game for other platforms
10:39 Final overview and conclusion
11:22 Outro

[polymatt]

Really helpful - thanks so much for this! Had no idea GB Studio was even a thing. Such a cool engine!

[hansvonlobster]

Woah, didn't know you can get GB Studio games published for Switch. Neat!

[UltimatePerfection]

I love the GB Color only mode they've introduced that allows for much more unique tiles on screen.

[Oreztes-uz]

Please keep these videos coming. They are fantastic resources for us less smart folk who want to get started in game development. Thank you so much for putting these out!

[Wololo]

Just downloaded GB studio two days ago! This video and all the other ones you have will really help me through this journey! Thanks

[the_jaggernaut]

Oh my GOD thank you for this. It has gotten so many updates I'm so overwhelmed coming back after a long time.

[cristianvasquez]

You earned a new sub, pretty concise and digestable content for newbies. Greets from Dominican Republic!

[Soccerse]

I really hope you continue this series with the new GB Studio! It would be great if you did a deep dive from start to finish in each game genre! Starting with a top-down Zelda like game would be perfect ;)

[DiegoTarragonaCovers]

man your videos are amazing
are you planning on making one to explain the new tile swapping event for animated backgrounds?

[jukebox]

Can you speak on what it takes to get your game on switch? Is your game running in some kind of approved emulator? Was this process very involved on your part, or did you have help from a publisher? This is fascinating and makes me want to develop with GB Studio more than ever!

[ELVS]

man if only gbs4 could work in my laptop imagine all the new features...but alas, im stuck with 3.2

[david-TheRave]

Hey do you still make games for people? I'm looking to get a prototype made

[LelandHasGames]

Is it possible to write your own music for your games yet? I haven't messed around with GB Studio since it's release.

[tiporosso]

Is Take It Racing 2 OST uploaded anywhere?

[MaksMysli]

Is there any chance that it will be possible to create GBA games in GB Studio someday?

[agsiar]

is it possible to make a fighting game in the vein of KOF 96 for the GB?

[limbocats]

Схоже таки настав час розібратися з ним і щось зробити)

[ciaragarrity]

Thank you for this video! For some reason version 4.0 can't be installed on my laptop, it gives me an error message, should I just uninstall the other versions, I haven't had this happen before. Anyone else have this issue?

[GregThedragonslayer]

move you face to the bottom left boyo, its too obnoxious