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#1 2012-07-13 23:12:00
Gamefroot - An interesting alternative to Scratch.
GameFroot
This guy I know has developed this cool new game making engine. It's called GameFroot, and it's built to make 8-bit platformer style games. But with the right knowledge, you can make all types of games with this software.
It's very new, it launched at the beginning of this year. It was developed in Wellington, New Zealand.
HOW IT WORKS:
You can create a basic map by placing different types of terrain. You are provided with lots of pre-made blocks and tiles, and you also have the ability to create your own stuff. You can also have moving tiles, tiles that can kill you (lava, spikes, etc,) and teleporting tiles.
You can also create a main character to play as. Gamefroot comes with an extensive character editor. With it you can choose skin, hair and eye colour, as well as clothes and accessories. With this character editor you can also make enemies to add to the game.
You can then add points, goals, and whatever you want really.
Most of the initial game creation is very basic. It's made for people who have little or no coding experience. I'm aware that most people on these forums would be able to make a game easily.
That's why Gamefroot comes with an extra coding feature. If you want to add more stuff, you can open the editor panel to add Advanced behaviours. This opens a window containing... Scratch blocks! Gamefroot has a coding feature almost identical to Scratch's, except the blocks are a bit different. This feature is currently still being developed, but it's very useful for adding a lot more stuff to your game.
Currently the Gamefroot community is very small, but this is changing quickly.
The best part is that everything is done online, there's no download required. All you need to do is login by either creating a Gamefroot account or using your Facebook account.
You can find it at gamefroot.com
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#3 2012-07-13 23:49:49
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Oh neat, a easy game maker that seems to specialize in plat-formers 
Kind of reminds me of PlayCrafter.
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#4 2012-07-14 01:52:33
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Wow, that looks cool. 
That's something I might want to check out.
And, offtopic, but, archmage and Maki-Tak in a circa 2012 forum topic. I thought you guys were long gone. O_O
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#5 2012-07-14 02:07:23
- ProgrammingPro01
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Re: Gamefroot - An interesting alternative to Scratch.
Awesome, I'll have to check it out!
Bye 1.4!
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#6 2012-07-14 02:18:08
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All4one wrote:
Wow, that looks cool.
And, offtopic, but, archmage and Maki-Tak in a circa 2012 forum topic. I thought you guys were long gone. O_O
Yeah..........
This really look's interesting! I really have to check it out.
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#8 2012-07-14 04:32:33
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All4one wrote:
And, offtopic, but, archmage and Maki-Tak in a circa 2012 forum topic. I thought you guys were long gone. O_O
And in the same one... o.O
Haha, all we need now is some other people like 08jackt (though he isn't long gone) and Nikki2Person or something...
cause a bird and a fish could fall in love/but where would they live?
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#9 2012-07-14 07:09:56
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Re: Gamefroot - An interesting alternative to Scratch.
archmage wrote:
Oh neat, a easy game maker that seems to specialize in plat-formers
Kind of reminds me of PlayCrafter.
Oh yeah I loved PlayCrafter back in the day! Too bad it gt shut down...
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#10 2012-07-14 13:27:00
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Yeah, for efficiency's sake, this kinds of tools are great.
One thing I found that is a good compromise between ease of use and ability to customize is DAME with Flixel and FlashDevelop. Dame is itself pretty much like this tool, but it only exports files which must be used in conjunction with FlashDevelop and Flixel (or flashpunk).
Here are the urls for the interested
http://dambots.com/dame-editor/
http://www.flashdevelop.org/
http://flixel.org/
The best way to go about things to try out the samples first then change them. I haven't been programming for a long time but I want to use these tools to make something like a 2d version of Pikmen.
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#11 2012-07-14 15:27:20
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Cool. What's it written in?
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#12 2012-07-14 15:54:45
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I love Gamefroot!
I've already made a Terminator-themed side-scroller shooter game today. Here it is!
'Cause I'm NUMBER ONE.
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#13 2012-07-14 19:39:13
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Not compatible with Android. 
It really needs to be though.
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#14 2012-07-14 22:46:53
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Maki-Tak wrote:
It was developed in Wellington, New Zealand.
:D
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#16 2012-07-16 22:56:04
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This is awesome
It has glitches sometime, but I guess thats because its new
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#17 2012-07-17 00:27:20
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#18 2012-07-17 00:29:20
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Looks awesome. I hope it's not as disappointing as Stencyl 
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#20 2012-07-17 00:37:36
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Though I can't find the advanced thingy...
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#21 2012-07-17 00:49:06
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jji7skyline wrote:
Though I can't find the advanced thingy...
Use the properties tool on an item and click on the "Advanced" tab then add advanced characteristics
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#22 2012-07-17 00:49:52
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Sounds cool. I'll check it out.
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#23 2012-07-18 02:09:52
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Dinoclor wrote:
Sounds cool. I'll check it out.
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I'll probably try it out sometime.
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