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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.

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You have Pico8 , PQ93 and TIC-80 just with "Game Boy" alike...
To move on to other genres you have tons of options , from GoDot, to RPG Maker, and even trying to use one of those obscure engines (there's one for making zelda games and other one for making warcraft 1 and 2 type games)

They are not the same in terms of ease-of-use.

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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:

  1. 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)
    1. I first made a "Rom" folder within the SameBoy directory
    2. (Obviously) I put my ROM in it
    3. 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"
    4. When you run the .bat, the emulator will launch straight into your game.
  2. There's also a tool called Bubble Wrap, although I haven't tried that one out myself yet.
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Nice! Yeah that helps. I still hope for an expanded maker, but I appreciate the suggestion!