ZGB VS tilemap-studio

Compare ZGB vs tilemap-studio and see what are their differences.

ZGB

Game Boy / Color engine with lots of features (by Zal0)
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ZGB tilemap-studio
3 3
669 349
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3.8 0.0
23 days ago over 1 year ago
C++ C++
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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ZGB

Posts with mentions or reviews of ZGB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-29.
  • Game Boy Competition 2023
    3 projects | /r/Gameboy | 29 May 2023
    This is a game jam where you make a Game Boy game in three months. If you don't know a lot of programming you can use GB Studio, you can learn the nitty gritty of how the Game Boy works by using assembly programming with RGBDS, or you can use C with GBDK or ZGB.
  • Change collision box position ZGB sprites?
    1 project | /r/gamedev | 17 Feb 2023
    As of right now, I'm using the ZGB because it seemed simple enough, and I like C. And I'm using Gameboy Tile Designer for my sprites. I know that my player sprite's collision box is defined in the .gbr.meta file, and I figured out how to adjust the collision box dimensions like so:
  • [UPDATE] a WIP Fan demake on the gameboy
    2 projects | /r/HollowKnight | 18 Apr 2021
    If you'd like to learn to code (and I totally understand if that seems daunting or you just don't) there are some options short of coding it all yourself - for one, there are other, possibly more flexible engines. One I considered for a bit before rolling my own was https://github.com/Zal0/ZGB - he has several games with source available to help people get started.

tilemap-studio

Posts with mentions or reviews of tilemap-studio. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-19.
  • Cinepaint: The long forgotten GIMP fork that once powered the cinema industry
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Sep 2021
    > It still appears to have the issue with text flow I ran into years ago where text would overlap with the button outline, rather than increasing the button outline to accommodate the text.

    OpenVSP probably uses 'vanilla' FLTK, but there is no such issue on screenshots of Rangi's Tilemap Studio[0,1], where custom FLTK widget themes used.

    > That was the one thing I didn't like about it. It made the GUI's look kinda unprofessional.

    JFTR, Take a look on AzPainter[2] and its toolkit on top of X11.[3,4]

    [0] https://github.com/Rangi42/tilemap-studio

    [1] https://hax.iimarckus.org/topic/7691/

    [2] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1430517079346749440

    [3] http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/soft/index.html

    [4] http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/about_mlk_en.html

  • FLTK Rust: a new basics tutorial
    4 projects | /r/rust | 14 Sep 2021
  • Tutorial: Creating 8Bit Music in GBA
    1 project | /r/PokemonROMhacks | 15 Apr 2021
    you knooow... if you used the decomp then tilemap studio lets you edit these tile-format graphics easily just sayin 👀

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ZGB and tilemap-studio you can also consider the following projects:

gbdk-2020 - An updated version of GBDK, C compiler, assembler, linker and set of libraries for the Nintendo Gameboy, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear.

tiled - Flexible level editor

openbor - OpenBOR is the ultimate 2D side scrolling engine for beat em' ups, shooters, and more!

porymap - Map editor for pokeemerald, pokefirered, and pokeruby

Petris - A puzzle game for the Game Boy Color (CGB), Analogue Pocket (AP) and Game Gear(GG). Build pets in all shapes and sizes, keep the board clear.

OpenVSP - A parametric aircraft geometry tool

sprite - A Game Boy emulator written in drizzle.

fltk-rs-demos - Repo containing demo apps using the fltk crate

rgbds - Rednex Game Boy Development System - An assembly toolchain for the Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color

fl_imgtk - FLTK image toolkit for some useful effects

NoobBoy - A simple GameBoy emulator written in C++

fltk-theme - A theming crate for fltk-rs