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GB Studio

A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for Game Boy.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

GB Studio is a virtualisation program, available on Windows and Linux.

Features described on its official website: debugging.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “It is designed to be usable by people with little to no previous programming knowledge using simple visual scripting but also provides multiple access points for advanced users to access the game engine's virtual…” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “It is designed to be usable by people with little to no previous programming knowledge using simple visual scripting but also provides multiple access points for advanced users to access the game engine's virtual…” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “If your game starts to get complex there's even a built in debugger .” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of GB Studio is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

GB Studio is drag and drop game creator for making Game Boy games It is designed to be usable by people with little to no previous programming knowledge using simple visual scripting but also provides multiple access points for advanced users to access the game engine's virtual machine (GBVM) and to directly modify game engine's C and Z80 assembly code through plugins. You can generate ROM files that can be run in an emulator, on a web page or on real Game Boy hardware

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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