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Three apps for making original Game Boy games on iPhone and iPad. Draw the art, write the music, and put the game together, then build the ROM and play it right there. Everything they make runs on a real Game Boy.
They're in beta. Join one through TestFlight, and tell us what breaks.
The apps
GB Art Beta open
A pixel-art editor that draws the way the hardware does: four shades, 8×8 tiles, and nothing a Game Boy couldn't show.
- Layers, fill, selection, and Apple Pencil on iPad
- Every unique tile listed: edit one and every copy changes
- A count of your tiles against the Game Boy's 256
- PNG in and out, and drawings in Files or a git repo
GB Tunes Beta soon
A tracker for Game Boy music: the four channels of the real sound chip, written note by note and played as the console plays it.
- Two pulse channels, a wave channel and noise
- Instruments, effects and drums, per note
- Songs go straight into a GB Editor game
GB Editor Beta soon
The hub. Lay out maps, place characters, write the story, then build the ROM on the iPad and play it in the built-in emulator.
- Maps made from GB Art drawings, kept in step as the art changes
- Characters, portals, searches and the story behind each
- Music and sound from GB Tunes
- Build on the device; share the .gb
How they fit
And one more thing
Somewhere in a workshop, a Game Boy is being built from nothing. Not emulated: rebuilt, gate by gate.
It already plays.
Betas run on Apple's TestFlight. Send feedback from the TestFlight app, or take a screenshot in the app.