Showcasing notable GBStudio games and hardware.
“Good luck superchamp”. These are the words of encouragement the hot wings salesman echoes as you leave his shop in D20Neography’s strange and wacky Hotwing Simulator. You will be needing lots of luck to succeed in the “experience”, let alone understand it. But herein lies the beauty of this game. Arriving on the itch page…
The GBxCart is debatably one of the best cart flashers on the market. insideGadgets has packed this flasher with tonnes of features including backing up ROMs and saves and has support for flashing a multitude of carts, including reproduction carts (check out flashcartdb.com for more info). Functionality The GBxCart requires software for it to function…
I was not entirely sure what to expect when I loaded Wink! into my Game Boy Color. The cover art seemed zany and surreal, and the game’s creator, Max Oakland, made quite a number of strides in development over a short period of time. As a game developer myself, I have a lot of respect…
BennVenn recently sent over The Joey Jr for us to test out, this has to be one of the most interesting pieces of equipment I own! At first glance it looks like any other flasher, plug in a cart and then connect the Joey to your computer, but this is where things change. Functionality When…
Classic platformers were the bread and butter of Nintendo back in the day, and now that GB Studio allows for making platform games it’s been lovely to see so many of them spring up. I recently played the demo of Dr. Cruz and the Quest of Indra by Cryptique Games and while short, it shows…
Opossum Country is a short story-driven horror game made with GB Studio by Ben Jelter (who also contributes to our site). The game was made as part of the Scream FM Game Jam, the theme being to create a horror game within the 10 day time restriction. Participants were able to use any game engine…
I wrote about The El Cheapo SD in a previous article. It is an easy to use SD based flash cart made by Bennvenn that allows you to place your games onto a SD card which gets inserted into the cart to play on real Game Boy hardware. Price The El Cheapo is exactly what…
Soul Void is an early example of how GB Studio can help creators branch off into the world of game development. Brooke Edenfield, better known as Kadabura, is a talented artist who’s been making fascinating and striking visual art in different mediums for several years now. Soul Void marks her first foray into game development…
One of the most exciting features of GB Studio’s 2.0 release (still in beta as of the time of writing this article) is the new “Game Types”. While GB Studio was originally developed to create Top Down style gameplay experiences akin to many JRPG games, the fact that there was a “Style” dropdown within the…
Narrative cooking games have had some gems released recently. VA-11 Hall-A, Coffee Talk and the upcoming Venba all provide a more relaxed approach to the often high stress world of food and beverage production. Instead of racing against timers to get your order out, the goal of these games is to figure out what combination…
