I would love to see something like Game Boy Studio, but for creating games for Windows with greater music and graphics options. I really like the ease of use to make something like a Zelda game, but the PC is my platform of choice. If you know of something like that--or have plans to make something like that, please let me know. GBS is awesome, by the way.
So this isn't quite what you're looking for, but there are a couple of ways you can turn a GBS-made game into essentially a Windows executable:
- Once your ROM is exported, bundle it with an emulator then create a .bat file to immediately launch the ROM (I've been bundling my GBS games with SameBoy this way)
- I first made a "Rom" folder within the SameBoy directory
- (Obviously) I put my ROM in it
- I made a .bat file (which, if you're not familiar, is as easy as creating a .txt file then changing the file extension to .bat) containing the following code:
@echo off
start sameboy_winsdl_v0.16.2\sameboy.exe ".\sameboy_winsdl_v0.16.2\Rom\[YourGameName].gb" - When you run the .bat, the emulator will launch straight into your game.
- There's also a tool called Bubble Wrap, although I haven't tried that one out myself yet.