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GB Studio vs libGDX: What are the differences?

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; libGDX: A Java game development framework that provides a unified API that works across all supported platforms. The framework provides an environment for rapid prototyping and fast iterations. Instead of deploying to Android/iOS/Javascript after each code change, you can run and debug your game on the desktop, natively. Desktop JVM features like code hotswapping reduce your iteration times considerably.

GB Studio and libGDX can be categorized as "Game Development" tools.

Some of the features offered by GB Studio are:

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

On the other hand, libGDX provides the following key features:

  • Cross Platform
  • Open Source
  • Feature Packed

GB Studio and libGDX are both open source tools. It seems that libGDX with 15.7K GitHub stars and 5.86K forks on GitHub has more adoption than GB Studio with 4.43K GitHub stars and 232 GitHub forks.

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      Knows exactly what happening
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      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.

      What is libGDX?

      The framework provides an environment for rapid prototyping and fast iterations. Instead of deploying to Android/iOS/Javascript after each code change, you can run and debug your game on the desktop, natively. Desktop JVM features like code hotswapping reduce your iteration times considerably.

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