Monday, June 06, 2005

Game Creator Roundup

Two game creation platforms were recently released for you aspiring game designers.

The first is the impressive-looking 3D game platform called Unity the engine for which was developed for the Ambrosia game GooBall. Unity appears to go to a lot of effort to streamline the game development process. It allows the programmer to modify the game environment on the fly, and replay the environment at will without compilation. It uses C# or JavaScript as its scripting language and appears to be a very capable platform.

The other game is Sawblade Software's Power Game Factory, a user-friendly tool for making sidescroller games. Whereas Unity requires actual programming (and is therefore more powerful), Power Game Factory has a more point-and-click dialogue box approach to game construction, making it more accessible to novice game developers. Still, it looks like no slouch, with multiple levels of parallax scrolling and support for sexy features like camera zooming. The sample gameplay movies show a very fluid and detailed environment.

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