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A curated list of Game Boy development resources such as tools, docs, emulators, related projects and open-source ROMs.
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Add Sprite Fusion. A free, web-based tilemap editor #249

Closed Hugo-Dz closed 9 months ago

avivace commented 10 months ago

I'm not sure how strictly related this is to game boy.. Also it's a free (but not open source product) targeted at godot/unity, but it's not clear what the business model is we're just promised "free forever".. I'm not sure what's the added value here

ISSOtm commented 10 months ago

Well, arguably, Tiled isn't targeted at the Game Boy either, yet we routinely recommend it. That editor has "neutral" exports (JSON) like Tiled, and thus you may be able to process its output just fine.

Hugo-Dz commented 10 months ago

I'm not sure how strictly related this is to game boy.. Also it's a free (but not open source product) targeted at godot/unity, but it's not clear what the business model is we're just promised "free forever".. I'm not sure what's the added value here

Hi there! Some clarifications: It's possible to export as JSON or PNG for sure as well as Unity and Godot packages. Regarding the business model, well it's just free and no intention to even ask for login. Just a web dev enjoying building creative tools for game devs :)

avivace commented 9 months ago

Tiled

Tiled is free, open source, runs locally. This tool is on a website for which no source is available. I don't have anything against tools for Unity/Godot which may happen to be useful for Game Boy stuff, but they should at least be open source/we shouldn't be the ones having to keep checking the website to see if it's still online/it complies with what it says it does. It's just additional burden for a tool that is not even game boy specific.