Happy New Year everyone!

I just wanted to give a little update on what’s been happening with GB Studio since the 1.2.0 launch.

I shared an image on Twitter recently of the full color feature I’ve been working on, this is actually part of a much bigger engine rewrite. This is all in varying levels of completion but the new features so far are:

- Each scene can now contain 32 colors (max 4 colors per 8 pixel tile)
- Scenes can now be MUCH larger. Instead of 256px width and height, they can now be up to 2040px in a single dimension. WIDTH x HEIGHT just needs to be under 1,000,000 pixels!
- The scene type drop down now actually works, my current builds let you choose between “Top Down” (current type) and “Platformer”. These are pretty rough right now so not much to share yet but I’m looking to expand to a few more genres too and trying to make it possible to build your own game styles. Since it’s per scene you can even merge two game types into a single game!

There’s a lot of work still to be done and I need to work out how to keep the UI as simple as possible (and still keep adding quality of life improvements) while adding this functionality but I’m getting there!

This is all a long term plan though and may take a while, in the short term I’m going to concentrate on getting a 1.2.1 bug fix release together. Quite a few things have been fixed already thanks to GB Studio community so that’s getting very close, watch out for it coming soon!

Thanks for your support,
Chris