What is GDS Editor?

Gds Editor is a game asset editing, compositing and creation tool bursting with powerful features. Especially designed to help you easily take control of GDS game assets and more.

GDS Editor gives you the power to easily modify and combine GDS, PNGs and SVGS with zero drawing skills and no previous knowledge of complicated design software such as Adobe photoshop or illustatrator. It's so simple to use! GDS editor takes complicated design tasks and reduces them down to simple button clicks and sliders. Giving you the ability to make game developer studio art assets uniquely yours! Further more gds core is completely free to use without sign up or membership. drag in your assets, make your edits and save them out, no loading, no installing, no login just go.

What's new in 1.6

Version 1.6 brings in even more new features and improvements.

• New layout for easier navigation.
• Improved performance when working with multiple assets in scenes.
• Texture panels and the texture library*.
• Simple shape tool and simple brush tools. draw your own lines and shapes
• Scalpel and stamp tools allow cutting, cloning and extracting of any component or scene area
• Overhauled copy paste system, paste in images, text and svg from other sources.
• Extract outline; Now you can adjust the stroke weight of any png by extracting the outline as a brush stroke and modifying it as such
• Improved alert system and onscreen display.
• Add any gds component to your asset stash
• Improved slicing tool- extract slices to your scene, slice spritesheets, slice tilesets, auto nine slice and auto three slice and more.
• Exposed configuration menu- GDS editor your way!
• Spritesheet player and frame player
• Overhauled and fixed hotkey system with even more hotkeys
• Over 25 known bug fixes
• Over 25 brand new bugs introduced

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Texture panel and library availble to gds plus supporters only

What can GDS editor do for you?

GDS editor is a growing app targeting 2d game developers. It aims to provide key editing features in an accessible and simplified way.

• Easily composite assets with drag-and-drop functionality. Mix assets effortlessly to craft unique designs, add decals, components, text, and more.
• Quickly iterate designs and layouts.
• Enjoy infinite, lossless resolution scaling with GDS asset packs and SVGs.
• No skills required! Access easy-to-use parameterized features with GDS Plus asset packs. Customize color groups, stroke weights, visibility toggles, and more.
• Modify outline weights to eliminate over-sized lines when scaling assets.
• Fork and modify numerous assets with ease. GDS Plus' export functions streamline the process of achieving your desired results.
• Accessible directly from your browser via the Game Developer Studio website, no installs and no serverside processing.
• Import and utilize SVG, PNG, and JPEG files, in addition to Game Developer Studio files. GDS Plus isn't limited to GDS assets alone.
• GDS Plus simplifies complex design software functions into single, easy clicks. Say goodbye to trawling through Photoshop tutorials and hours of trial and error.
• Effortlessly build out your tilesheets, spritesheets, atlases and textures.
• Utilize nine-slice, three-slice, table slice, and manual slice functions for precise control over asset slicing.
• Manage and stash assets using your personal asset stash.
• Make tiles and tiling layers with tile asset
• and much much more

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Try it now for free

Launch gds editor directly in your browser, drag in, load or paste in an svg, png, jpg, or .gds

Launch 1.6 public beta release

bug in 1.6?
continue with 1.5.1

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