Pyxel Text is a specialized, standalone editor designed for GB Studio developers. It provides a fast, distraction-free way to edit game dialogue, menus, and choice events across multiple scenes simultaneously without needing to open the full GB Studio engine.
Writing and localizing dialogue directly in GB Studio can be slow when jumping between many scenes. Pyxel Text extracts all text-related events into a clean, searchable list, letting you focus entirely on the writing.
- Zero Setup: This is a standalone executable. No Python installation or GB Studio setup is required.
- Multi-Scene Sessions: Edit Scene A, switch to Scene B, and your changes in Scene A are saved in memory until you are ready to export.
- Deep Text Extraction:
- Dialogue: Edit all standard text boxes (
EVENT_TEXT). - Menus: Modify option labels for selection menus (
EVENT_MENU). - Choices: Update True/False choice prompts (
EVENT_CHOICE).
- Dialogue: Edit all standard text boxes (
- Safe & Non-Destructive: The tool never overwrites your original source files. It creates a "modified clone" of your project folder in a location of your choice.
- Scene Folder: Click the button and select your GB Studio project's
assets/scenesfolder. - Output Folder: Select where you want the modified version of your project to be saved (e.g., your Desktop).
- Edit: Select a scene from the left sidebar. All dialogues and menus will appear in the editor on the right.
- Export: Hit 🚀 EXPORT ALL. The app will create a copy of your scenes folder with all new text injected into the
.gbsresfiles. - replace your previous scene folder with the exported one
Because this is an independent, custom-built executable, Windows may show a blue popup saying "Windows protected your PC."
- Click More Info.
- Click Run Anyway.
Additional warning: do NOT have GB studio on when you replace the scene files; FIRST replace the scene folder, THEN turn on GBStudio.
Check the Releases section on the right to download the latest zip file.