GB Studio 3.0 has been released and is much more capable than GB Studio 2.0 was. However, GB Studio 2.0 is much easier to learn.
The most stable, advanced, and user-friendly version of GB Studio 2.0 available is 2.0-beta5.
You can get this version of GB Studio pre-built and ready to go from GitHub.
The official GB Studio 2.0 Trailer shows off the main features.
The official Getting Started document gives a brief overview.
GameFromScratch has done a nice introduction video to GB Studio 2.0.
The most up-to-date version of the full documentation is available at the develop branch of the website. GB Studio is simple enough that going through this section-by-section is viable way to quickly learn the system, especially if you have previous game dev experience.
Pixel Pete has made a comprehensive series of tutorial videos about using GB Studio, including 2.0 and older content.
Emi Paternostro & others run the lovely GB Studio Central webzine covering a wide array of GB Studio topics.
Ember has a helpful video explaining GB Studio 2 palettes.
A great example project is built in to GB Studio 2.0.
Here are some others:
- Chris Maltby's Merry Sample Project
- Paige Ashlynn's Yurivania 2
Ember maintains a collection of useful community-provided content and tools you can use in your games.
Some especially useful tools~~
- James Park's GBBGTxT makes typing text on a background image easier.
- Pau Tomàs' GB Studio Tile Counter tells you how many unique tiles exist in a background image.
- Richard ULZ's GB Studio character table is useful for embedding untypable tiles in text.
- André Michelle's Tileset Extractor can be helpful in creating tile palettes from existing maps. I have used to to figure out which tiles I actually use in a set of PNGs.
GB Studio has both mod and plugin support, and the community has generated a lot of both. Once you understand the basics, take a look at Ember's database of mods and plugins to see what else you can do.
You might even want to start creating some of your own!
- Sōdo Dev on Modifying the Engine
- Pau Tomàs on Editor Plugins
GB Studio 3 includes an advanced programing system called GBVM.
- GBVM's main developer, Toxa, explains how it works under the hood.
The GB Studio Discord is very active and there are many helpful people there. There is also a FAQ and a collection of plug-ins and mods that enhance GB Studio's capabilities.