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Amethyst vs GB Studio: What are the differences?

What is Amethyst? Data-oriented and data-driven game engine written in Rust. Uses gfx-rs to render graphics with OpenGL, and soon Vulkan and Metal. It is meant to be used for 2D and 3D, with various utilities for both types of games.

What is GB Studio? A Free and Easy to use Retro Adventure Game Creator. Visual game builder with no programming knowledge required. Design your graphics in any editor that can output PNG files e.g. Photoshop, Tiled, Aseprite.

Amethyst and GB Studio belong to "Game Development" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Amethyst are:

  • High Performance
  • Built for 2D and 3D
  • Uses all CPU cores to run internals and logic

On the other hand, GB Studio provides the following key features:

  • Create Real ROM files
  • Simple Setup
  • No knowledge required

GB Studio is an open source tool with 4.38K GitHub stars and 226 GitHub forks. Here's a link to GB Studio's open source repository on GitHub.

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What is Amethyst?

Uses gfx-rs to render graphics with OpenGL, and soon Vulkan and Metal. It is meant to be used for 2D and 3D, with various utilities for both types of games.

What is GB Studio?

Visual game builder with no programming knowledge required. Design your graphics in any editor that can output PNG files e.g. Photoshop, Tiled, Aseprite.

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