This looks like a fantastic little engine! All the tools you need in one place. :) I've messed around with the palette editor & I look forward to trying out the tutorials.
Quick question: Are there any plans to support non-standard tiling sprite sizes? For example: 10 × 10px instead of 8 × 8px?
Thank you Alassë! I’m happy you like it. Looking forward to your creations.
The fundamental size of each tile being fixed at 8x8 is due to hardware specifications, not a software design trade-off. The Game Boy has another mode that supports 8x16 hardware sprites. I recommend trying actors. While their underlying structure is still based on 8x8 or 8x16 tiles, actors allow multiple sprite tiles to be combined into a larger entity. Actors also support many advanced features.
Thank you so much! Really glad you’re excited about it.
Great idea, I’ve added it to the page to encourage creators to use it.
Can’t wait to see what we come up with!
Awesome to see something like this! I don't see a download button, but would appreciate something that would run locally on both windows and SteamOS/Linux.
Hi Oscar, The Web version on itch.io and Win/Linux/MacOS one on Steam are totally free to use for making GB games, they can all export to GB compatible ROM, and the Steam version can also export to HTML package. The only paid part of the application is the optional desktop exporter DLC on Steam.
Is there a future where the desktop version can be on itch? I'd pay for a no DRM version, even if its more.
Running Steam to use dev tools is a pain, unless the steam version is also no DRM? That's the main reason I did so little with Basic8. EDIT: Just downloaded and ran without Steam!!! We're good! I'll test it out tonight
Picked this up on Steam along with the desktop bundler. I have been watching this one forever, Tony. Thanks for your work, and I look forward to playing with it after work tomorrow!
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This looks like a fantastic little engine! All the tools you need in one place. :) I've messed around with the palette editor & I look forward to trying out the tutorials.
Quick question: Are there any plans to support non-standard tiling sprite sizes? For example: 10 × 10px instead of 8 × 8px?
Thank you Alassë! I’m happy you like it. Looking forward to your creations.
The fundamental size of each tile being fixed at 8x8 is due to hardware specifications, not a software design trade-off. The Game Boy has another mode that supports 8x16 hardware sprites. I recommend trying actors. While their underlying structure is still based on 8x8 or 8x16 tiles, actors allow multiple sprite tiles to be combined into a larger entity. Actors also support many advanced features.
Very cool to see this project released. I’m looking forward to seeing what people make with it!
I suggest adding a #gbbasic tag to projects on itch that use it so they’re easy to find.
Thank you so much! Really glad you’re excited about it. Great idea, I’ve added it to the page to encourage creators to use it. Can’t wait to see what we come up with!
Awesome to see something like this! I don't see a download button, but would appreciate something that would run locally on both windows and SteamOS/Linux.
Thanks Starsickle! Currently this page hosts the web version, the desktop version is available on Steam for Windows, SteamOS/Linux, and MacOS.
Hi Tony, can I buy GB Basic from itch.io or just on steam? Thanks in advance.
Hi Oscar, The Web version on itch.io and Win/Linux/MacOS one on Steam are totally free to use for making GB games, they can all export to GB compatible ROM, and the Steam version can also export to HTML package. The only paid part of the application is the optional desktop exporter DLC on Steam.
Is there a future where the desktop version can be on itch? I'd pay for a no DRM version, even if its more.
Running Steam to use dev tools is a pain, unless the steam version is also no DRM? That's the main reason I did so little with Basic8. EDIT: Just downloaded and ran without Steam!!! We're good! I'll test it out tonight
Nice!
Thank you!
Picked this up on Steam along with the desktop bundler. I have been watching this one forever, Tony. Thanks for your work, and I look forward to playing with it after work tomorrow!
Thank you!