GB Studio is a free and open source game creator software for Linux, windows and MacOS. Using GB Studio, you can create retro style game for handheld Game Boy system by just drag and drop. It is a visual scripting application and no programming knowledge required to create your game. It comes with build-in music editor to write music, generate ROM files and more. It is released under MIT License.
Download GB Studio [Windows, Linux, MacOS]
Install GB Studio on Ubuntu
Download the latest version of GB Studio in portable .AppImage file format from the above download link and save it on your Downloads folder. Now open the terminal application (ctrl+alt+t) and run below commands one by one.
Note: Here “gb-studio-linux.AppImage” is the downloaded file name.
cd Downloads
sudo chmod +x ~ gb-studio-linux.AppImage
./gb-studio-linux.AppImage
Install GB Studio via Flatpak:
You can also install it via flatpak. First if you don’t have then install flatpak and flathub on your system and restart it after the installation.
Now open the terminal software and run below GB Studio flatpak install command.
flatpak install flathub dev.gbstudio.gb-studio
And you can start GB Studio using below command.
flatpak run dev.gbstudio.gb-studio
And uninstall GB Studio using below command.
sudo flatpak uninstall dev.gbstudio.gb-studio
That’s it.
