Saturday, April 11, 2009

Start making your own Game

Do you play Games ? Yes , I love to play games. My favourite Games are CountersStrike , WarCraft , WOW , Assassins creed , NFS , and many more games. All these games are 3D games. All of us will like to play these Games , But how much of u like to create Games ? Does it make you think "Creating Game ? oo great but it is tough" , "Dont Know where to start ?" , "Programming ? ooo that is confussing and i dont know".


Yes I am not saying Programming is not required for developing games. But you can still make a complete game with ZERO Code and just through Logical Thinking. The three tools that I going to talk in this post are

1) http://www.alice.org/
2) http://www.popfly.com/GameCreator/
3) http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/ (Game Maker 7)

ALICE


This Program is the perfect place to learn how to program 3D Environment. In this an environment can be created with easy by just drag and drop graphic titles. Alice allows to see how the animation programs run and know how the animation is being programmed. This is a program created by Carnegie Mellon University faculty, staff and students. This Program will be right one to start with and learn environment Design.

This above Screen shot is the Alice Animation Program which Runs the animation You can just use download the tool from the download link and start over there is a tutor also added along with the tool Download Link for ALICE program : http://www.alice.org/

Now lets see the next program www.popfly.com

POPFLY

Popfly is a microsoft program where you can use it to make MASHUP , WEBPAGES , GAMES , etc. You can use this popfly and create the above thing in ZERO Code . All you Require is Logical Thinking and nothing else.

The Steps that you need to do are

1) go to http://www.popfly.com/

2) Signin using Live ID , if you dont have an ID Create one by signup.

3) On the Top navigato
r go to Create > Games







CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THE IMAGE IN FULL SCREEN



4) Select the template or the game format and edit the objects and game play , behaviors , appearance , properties , etc.

5) There are various other developers who develope the games and publish. You can learn from them too.


Source Link : http://www.popfly.com/

Next I would like to tell about GAME MAKER 7


Game Maker 7

Game Maker 7 is a Product released my YOYO GAMES. This is one of the easy way to create games - Both 2D and 3D games. I have Created a lot of simple Games using this Tool (GAME MAKER 7).

Steps :


1) Go to http://www.yoyogames.com/

2) And download the Game Maker 7 software and start developing.

3) You can Learn to start developing game from
this website : http://gamerbazzar.googlepages.com/ Game maker 7 is a simple program where you can create objects and the respected functions for that Game Room , etc. 4) There are a lot of there Tutors available online. Try them all. I possible post them in the comment box of this post. There are a lot of other good programs available try them all and enjoy. Hope this is the best place to start.

Convert yourself from just playing games to creating games

Enjoy Creating Games and Gaming

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