For all users to submit their own works! Must be original and usable in GB Studio.
You must be okay with all of your submitted work being under the MIT Licence. If a file has an exception to this liscence, it will be noted on the README of the folder that the file is in.
You can find credits to all contributors in the respective folder READMEs.
In the future this repo could be accessed through a much more user-friendly website. For now, here's a framework to organise our community assets.
I'd love to accept any unofficial modifications to GB Studio or its compontents if they can be shared under the MIT Licence or the GPL 3.0 licence. Get in contact with me about this if this is you. Ember#1765 is my Discord handle.
Create a Github account, make a fork of this repository, add your own stuff and make a pull request. Make sure the page is showing [my repository] << [your fork] and I will credit your name in a credits document so we can keep track of who's done what in a more elegant manner.
If you'd like to add your own name in the readme's during your pull request, feel free to do so.
And please ask if you'd like to be a collaborator on this repo. I'd like to not be the only one approving pull requests/adding things!
Docs: https://www.gbstudio.dev/docs/backgrounds/
Minimum file dimensions are 160px x 144px
Maximum file dimensions are 256px x 256px
"An image can contain no more than 192 unique 8px x 8px tiles at once due to memory limits."
Use Tiled or other programs to help you allign these backgrounds.
Please only put tilesets in the graphics/tilesets folder and finished backgrounds in the /backgrounds folder.
Docs: https://www.gbstudio.dev/docs/sprites/
Please keep static sprites in the /sprites/static/ folder and all not-animated actors in the /sprites/actors folder. Animated actors belong only in /sprites/anim-actors/ and all other animated sprites belong only in /sprites/anim/
Docs: https://www.gbstudio.dev/docs/ui-elements/
Please put ascii files in the /fonts folder and everything else in the /UI folder.
Docs: https://www.gbstudio.dev/docs/music/
Join the GB Studio discord to answer your music questions: https://discord.gg/2hYeJ4m
The following folders exist for music:
- Action - Boss themes, battle themes, tense music
- Cutscenes - Short or non-loopable thematic songs
- Jingles - Works well for games with lots of sound effects. Also great for those who have a hard time starting songs.
- Menu Themes - Songs for a main menu/inventory screen
- National Anthems - Add yours!
- Overworld - Songs for exploring
- SFX - Sound effects of all sorts
- Utility - Template Drumbeats and a Milkytracker-ready template
Music:
- Example templates for songs in 4/4, 6/8, etc.
- Example rangetest utility .mod
- Example of .midi converted to .mod