GB Studio is a quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system.

[4.1.0] - 2024-09-02

Added

• Add ability to create reusable actor and trigger "prefabs"
• Add ability to set reusable "preset" values on "Display Dialogue" and "Launch Projectile" events
• Add "Draw Text" event allowing drawing text directly to background or overlay (based on "Display Background Text" plugin by @pau-tomas)
• Add "Set Overlay Scanline Cutoff" event allowing you to show overlays at the top of the screen
• Add "Close Non-Modal Dialogue" event, required if using "Close When" -> "Never" option in updated "Display Dialogue" event.
• Add "Mute Channel" event allowing control over which music channels are active or muted (based on "Mute Channel" plugin by @pau-tomas)
• Add "Set Dialogue Frame" event allowing the dialogue frame image to be dynamically replaced with any 24px x 24px tileset (based on "Set Dialogue Frame" plugin by @pau-tomas)
• Tilesets asset folder added to all sample projects @pau-tomas
• Add _stackPushVariable(variable) and _isIndirectVariable(variable) helpers for use in plugins
• Add "View Script Uses" feature accessible from the script context menu, allowing you to see all places where a script has been used in your project
• Add ability to change compiler optimisation settings in Build Options section on Settings page @patrickmollohan
• Add event "Set Actor Collision Bounding Box" to modify collision shape
• Add event "Set Text Sound Effect" to set a sound effect to play as each dialogue text character is displayed
• When deleting scripts, you are now given the option to also delete all "Call Script" events that reference the script
• Add ROM usage monitor to Build Log showing how much free space is available before the next ROM size increase @pau-tomas
• Add "Print Using GB Printer" event to send either the current Background or Overlay to a connected GB Printer. Game must be run on real hardware with a printer connected for this feature to work (based on "Print Screen Background" plugin by @pau-tomas)
• Add "Set Camera Property" event for changing camera deadzone and offset values
• Add "Actor Effects" event for playing effect animations on actors (based on "Actor FX" plugin by @pau-tomas)
• Add "Thread Start" and "Stop Thread" events allowing running scripts in the background.

Changed

• Changed project file structure. The .gbsproj file will now contain very little information, instead each scene, actor, trigger, etc is individually stored in a .gbsres file in a projects/ folder allowing for better support for version control + working in teams. Migration is automatic on first save after loading a project
• Update to latest GBVM
• Optimise subpixel calculations in Actor and Camera Move events by using bitwise shifting rather than multiplication/division
• Updated Polish localisation. @ReptiIe
• Updated Japanese localisation. @tomo666
• Updated French localisation. @Pomdap
• Updated Spanish localisation. @doomer6699
• Only the inbuilt scene types that were actually used in your game are now compiled, improving build time if only some scene types were used
• Improve build cancelling: Stops spawned processes immediately rather than waiting for in progress processes to complete
• Changing the engine field in a "Store Engine Field In Variable" event no longer resets the variable
• Build time now shown in seconds when < 60s and minutes+seconds when >= 60s
• Update Scene Pop events to allow setting Fade Speed as "Instant" @pau-tomas
• "Launch Projectile" event fields organised into multiple tabs
• Update "Display Dialogue" event to include tabs with additional layout and behavior options (based on "Display Advanced Dialogue" plugin by @pau-tomas)
• Update "Set Sprite Palettes" event to allow restoring default palettes

Fixed

• Fix localisation of collision mask input field
• Fix issue where using variables used within Not, Rnd(), Abs(), etc. in scripts were not being listed as parameters
• Fix Variable Uses list to include variables used in script value calculations
• Fix tilemap generation when number of unique tiles is above limits to match behaviour in v3.x
• Fix issue where custom movement speed input would become focused unnecessarily
• Fix issue causing broken rom header when project name contained no ascii characters
• Fix issue where sound effect preview button would sometimes not cause sound effect to play
• Fix issue where using reusing a script that would launch projectiles across multiple scenes could cause the wrong projectile to be launched
• Fix issue where passing values from one script to another wouldn't correctly pass by reference
• Fix issue where using parameters from one script while calling another wouldn't register the parameter in the parent script correctly
• Fix issue where modified player flags were not being reset when changing scenes
• Fix issue where "If Actor At Position" wasn't rounding to chosen units before comparing causing condition to fail when between tiles
• Fix issue where resetting palettes back to defaults from a script used in multiple scenes may not load the correct palettes
• Fix issue where timers were not suspending when executing modal dialogues and menus
• Fix issue where using "Start Actor's 'On Update' script" could change sprite draw order