🛠️ DataStudio, Datapack Editor

🛠️ DataStudio, Datapack Editor

DataStudio is the official Booker Blitz tool for building and fixing custom datapacks outside the main game. Use it to edit rosters, promotions, titles, teams, and arenas, convert supported .db and .mdb files from other wrestling sims, and clear validation warnings before you start a new universe.

🚀 Launch

DataStudio is a separate desktop app that ships alongside Booker Blitz. Install it from the same place you got the game, or grab the latest build from the official website.

Open DataStudio before you start a new career when you want a full editor with warnings, bulk edits, and Ctrl+S saves back to your .bbdb file.

🧭 What you can do

• Home: Datapack stats, legacy .db / .mdb conversion, quick links
• Wrestlers: In-ring talent only, with a gallery for weight class, height, and type. The contract block edits every deal on that worker and flags an active exclusive contract.
• Staff: Everyone who is not an in-ring wrestler, in list or gallery mode, grouped by role
• Promotions: Shows, PPVs, titles (including tag and trios champions), teams (including multi-man stables), the promotion's alliance, facilities, key staff
• Arenas: Venue data and images; save or export as .bbarenas, import packs with merge-or-replace
• Themes: Build a custom promotion theme and export it as a .bbtheme file
• Stats: Datapack breakdowns
• Warnings: Jump to broken references with Fix

The wrestler and staff lists have a Non-compete chip that shows only workers whose exclusive contracts carry a non-compete clause.

Dates (birthdays, contracts, title reigns) use the same calendar picker as the game. DataStudio remembers its own look per datapack.

Save your work with Ctrl+S. Export a folder from the File menu when you are ready to play, or keep working in a .bbdb bundle.

👔 Staff

The Staff page lists managers, commentators, interviewers, ring announcers, referees, writers, trainers, and the rest of the backstage crew, grouped by role.

• The gallery (press F) shows each person's role stats. Press T to change their role, S to regenerate their stats for that role, and N to rename them.
• Ctrl+W moves the focused staff member back to the in-ring roster.
• Managers are rated on their Charisma and Mic Skills. In a promotion's team editor you can assign a manager to a team's members.

🏟️ Promotions and Key Staff

• Key Staff only offers people with the matching role for each slot (commentators, interviewers, ring announcers).
• Weekly shows and Annual Events (PPVs) each have their own staff. Use Copy to all shows, Apply to all PPVs, or Copy to all PPVs to copy one show's or PPV's staff to the rest. Each asks for confirmation, because it overwrites the existing staff.
• The team picker only lists wrestlers who are not already on a team.
• Tag and trios champions are picked from a scrollable team list, with a tab for non-team roster members.
• Shows have a Development Show switch. Titles have a Development Title switch plus Days Between Defences, which sets how often a development show defends that belt (blank uses the 28-day default). Development titles are booked on development shows and hidden from main-roster cards. See Brands for how the office runs them.
• Renaming a title in the game keeps any brand claim on it. Titles you rename in DataStudio have no brand claims to move, because brands are set up in-game.

🎨 Custom Themes

The Themes section is a live editor for the same colour variables the game uses. Adjust primary, secondary, accent, hue rotation, and the semantic colours (success, warning, money, and the five-step stat scale), then pick light or dark as the mode the game should use. The preview shows a mock DataStudio screen so you can see the palette in context.

You can also replace the six game backgrounds with your own images:

Each slot shows the bundled art labelled Default until you choose your own, at which point it is labelled Custom. The Reset button clears the colours and backgrounds.

Give the theme a name and hit Export .bbtheme. The file bundles the colours and every replaced background, so it travels as one file.

To use it, open the game and go to Settings → Theme, then hit Import Theme under the theme picker and choose your .bbtheme file. The theme is applied as your Custom promotion theme, and the replaced backgrounds show up across the game. Reinstate Pictures next to it puts the bundled backgrounds back.

🏟️ Arenas packs (.bbarenas)

Arenas are decoupled from the datapack. The Arenas section edits a venue list that you save as a .bbarenas file (same JSON array shape as arenas.json, with no embedded images).

• Save (Ctrl+S) writes a .bbarenas file (asks for a path the first time, then updates that file).
• Import accepts .bbarenas or arenas.json and asks whether to merge (skip duplicate IDs) or replace the list.
• Export writes a fresh .bbarenas without changing the save target.

In the game, open Settings → Data to pick a .bbarenas file and a separate Arenas Images Folder. Applying the pack replaces the arenas list in the current save. New games also seed from that pack when a path is set. The New Game → Arenas tab can edit that list, load another file, export it, and choose the image folder before you start. .bbdb bundles can still ship arenas.json for compatibility.

Shortcuts

See 13. shortcuts, DataStudio section for the full keyboard list.

🧩 Related modding docs

• 8. custom datapacks: JSON structure and validation rules
• 1.1 Getting Started: New game flow and imports in the main game