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 beyond.

Tired of the limited flexibility of downloaded game assets? GDS Editor gives you the power to easily modify and combine GDS+ assets 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 plus 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 the plus version is free to use without sign up or membership.

What's new in 1.4

Version 1.4 brings in new improvements and complete overhaul of core GDS editor functionality, setting up the editor for planned future features.

• Post it category tabs for organizing your own scenes
• improved color selection with GDS editor's own color select wheel, moving away from browser based color inputs
• Color theory generator, helping you instanly find complementary colors, opposite colors and tone variations from selected colors
• Color dropper color change in the hue and saturation.
• Color changing on PNG and JPG files. Now you can bring in bitmaps as well as SVG files from external sources.
• Copy and paste PNG, SVG and text from outside sources, quickly bring in screenshots from your project and use them to balance your assets
• Pixelate and blur filters on svg and bitmaps.
• Improved batch selection. Batch operations are now controled by the corresponding inspector dialog.
• New text shadow and improved text functions.
• Layout and interface improvements.
• Bug fixes and future proofing.

view full change log

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.
• 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 (installable PWA in development).
• 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.
• No login, no subscription, no fees required.

find out more

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 1.4 public alpha release