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Re: Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

darzu wrote: post #128
dyarosla wrote: post #116

I think it’s a great market to tackle- as both a game/level designer tool and also an educational intro to scripting/coding. IMO it’s very reminiscent of Microsoft’s Kodu and to a lesser extent Media Molecule’s Little Big Planet and Dreams games. I wish the team the best of luck! Hopefully it keeps chugging along for some time; I’m wary because particularly these kinds of not quite game engine and not quite game proj…

> Hopefully it keeps chugging along for some time That's my biggest question, especially with Google. Meanwhile, Kodu is still getting updates 10 years later! [0] (Disclosure: I was an intern on Kodu years back, so I'm probably biased ;) ) [0] https://www.kodugamelab.com/archive/new-kodu-release-15470/

I thought Kodu was pretty much frozen at this point, and I think Project Spark failed. Is it someone at MS working on the code?

Re: Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

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Post by dyarosla »

darzu wrote: post #128
dyarosla wrote: post #116

I think it’s a great market to tackle- as both a game/level designer tool and also an educational intro to scripting/coding. IMO it’s very reminiscent of Microsoft’s Kodu and to a lesser extent Media Molecule’s Little Big Planet and Dreams games. I wish the team the best of luck! Hopefully it keeps chugging along for some time; I’m wary because particularly these kinds of not quite game engine and not quite game proj…

> Hopefully it keeps chugging along for some time That's my biggest question, especially with Google. Meanwhile, Kodu is still getting updates 10 years later! [0] (Disclosure: I was an intern on Kodu years back, so I'm probably biased ;) ) [0] https://www.kodugamelab.com/archive/new-kodu-release-15470/

Yes but they (Microsoft) also shut down Project Spark, the ‘spiritual successor’ to Kodu.

Re: Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

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Post by bovermyer »

figiel wrote: post #44
deanclatworthy wrote: post #41

Does anyone else remember an old "game" for making games? It would have been late 90s when I played it, and I remember we bought it on a CD. You could build little top down games in it, I think the example was a football game.

Klick & Play?

Man, I lost many hours to Klik & Play. Most of the games I made were terrible Arkanoid clones.

Re: Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

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Post by darzu »

dyarosla wrote: post #132
darzu wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Hopefully it keeps chugging along for some time That's my biggest question, especially with Google. Meanwhile, Kodu is still getting updates 10 years later! [0] (Disclosure: I was an intern on Kodu years back, so I'm probably biased ;) ) [0] https://www.kodugamelab.com/archive/new-kodu-release-15470/

Yes but they (Microsoft) also shut down Project Spark, the ‘spiritual successor’ to Kodu.

touché. What a missed opportunity Project Spark was. I feel like a book could be written about that.

Re: Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

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Post by darzu »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #131
darzu wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Hopefully it keeps chugging along for some time That's my biggest question, especially with Google. Meanwhile, Kodu is still getting updates 10 years later! [0] (Disclosure: I was an intern on Kodu years back, so I'm probably biased ;) ) [0] https://www.kodugamelab.com/archive/new-kodu-release-15470/

I thought Kodu was pretty much frozen at this point, and I think Project Spark failed. Is it someone at MS working on the code?

There's still a dev fixing bugs and improving perf full-time, but it's not getting drastic changes. More people are using Kodu now than ever before.

Re: Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

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Post by pulkitsh1234 »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #84
pulkitsh1234 wrote: post #71

The build and instant play feature reminds me of Trackmania for some reason. It was (is) a great game, but I still cannot believe why it never became famous.

Are you from the US? It was fairly popular in Europe and also played in the ESL, but I hardly ever saw players from anywhere else.

haha I am from India, one of the somewhat 100 players from India when it came out. I was ranked 15 when trackmania 2 came out.

Yes, you are right all the best players were from Europe.

Re: Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

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Post by tomcam »

munchbunny wrote: post #70
tomcam wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, you can’t leave us hanging about how font rendering was unexpectedly useful. What kind of fonts did you deal with later in life and why?

It's not that exciting of a story. ;) I had to write my own font rendering code for lack of much in the way of general purpose libraries for doing it in 3-D engines back around 2005. Your options were, more or less, to pay through the nose for Scaleform, to roll your own, or to use something really ugly. So I had to learn some basic typography to tie Freetype into a text rendering engine, which got me practical exper…

pretty exciting to me. lots of interesting projects. thanks for sharing.

Re: Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

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Post by teddyh »

teddyh wrote: post #98
deanclatworthy wrote: post #41

Does anyone else remember an old "game" for making games? It would have been late 90s when I played it, and I remember we bought it on a CD. You could build little top down games in it, I think the example was a football game.

These are too early to be the one you’re looking for, but there have been a number of these, including these two I had myself back in the day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kitchen%27s_GameMaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot-%27Em-Up_Construction_Ki...

Oh, and this one, too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_Adventure_Creator

Re: Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

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Post by bufferoverflow »

I just tried it out, edited some code. It's alright. The problem I have with it is the graphics quality. It's very plain. No shader access. Close to no lighting.

I decided not to invest more time into it, it needs some work to be a game engine.

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