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Developers describe GB Studio as "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. On the other hand, Phaser is detailed as "Desktop and Mobile HTML5 game framework". It is a free open source HTML5 game framework. It uses Pixi.js for WebGL and Canvas rendering across desktop and mobile web browsers. Games can be compiled to iOS and Android apps via 3rd party tools.

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

GB Studio and Phaser are both open source tools. Phaser with 25.3K GitHub stars and 5.98K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than GB Studio with 4.43K GitHub stars and 232 GitHub forks.

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      Compile to iOS, Android and native apps
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      JavaScript or TypeScript
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      WebGL and Canvas rendering
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      Open Source

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        No GUI

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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 Phaser?

      It is a free open source HTML5 game framework. It uses Pixi.js for WebGL and Canvas rendering across desktop and mobile web browsers. Games can be compiled to iOS and Android apps via 3rd party tools.

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