gb-studio VS Arcade

GB-Studio (MIT/C) https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio

I doubt it was intentional. They hired a studio to make a retro style game and they probably just happened to hire one specializing in gb development. There's a lot of good tools now like https://www.gbstudio.dev/

👾 Software - GB Studio. I spent a large part of my childhood playing Tetris and Micro Machines on my Gameboy. Now anyone can create Gameboy games with a drag-and-drop editor.

Very cool! Maybe you can make a pixel art style portfolio of your work that runs on a GB cart and a rom to share around? Do you know about GBStudio?

No, it's an actual game boy game built using GB Studio, that's the point, that it's compatible with any device capable of running GB games, including original hardware! :)

It actually does interpret bytecode, you can see the opcode definitions here https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio/blob/1f995a976bd3aa...

The trick is that a lot of the heavier stuff is implemented in assembly and this is mostly used for lighting scripting (from what I understand).

Me when gameboy studio exists: https://www.gbstudio.dev/

If you ever want to just play around with gameboy stuff, GB Studio is much simpler, but only supports building certain types of games, since it's a no-coding kind of thing.

I work on a Python game engine called Arcade[1] and other projects within it's Github organization such as pytiled-parser. We also help to drive continued development and improvement within Pyglet[2]. Recently, my efforts have been focused on creating a version which can be run in web browsers by using Pyodide and WebGL[3], though that is still fairly early stages.

Arcade's primary focus is on being an educational tool for beginner programmers, so my hope is that with browser compatibility we can lower the barrier to entry further and make it more accessible and easy to get started with. In a similar vein to the goals of browser compatibility, we've recently enabled full compatibility with Raspberry Pi through the use of OpenGL ES(and this was largely only possible thanks to the huge amount of work that everyone involved in the Mesa project puts in)

I'm not the original author of Arcade, but I am a current maintainer and put a substantial amount of time into it and it's community.

[1] - https://github.com/pythonarcade/arcade

Interesting, looks like some of the default fonts are not getting frozen as part of the executable? I opened an issue: https://github.com/pythonarcade/arcade/issues/1252

Website: https://arcade.academy

Create a game! Get some ideas here: https://arcade.academy

You can look at the example code and tutorials here: https://arcade.academy/

Added clear method to UIManager (#1116)

Arcade can now run in headless mode on linux servers opening more possibilities for users in for example the data science community (#1107). See Headless Arcade for more information.

Fixed issue #978, copy button in examples moved to the left to prevent it disappearing.