A Game to Make Games
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A Game to Make Games
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#2Reminds me of the 'Inventing on Principle' talk: http://vimeo.com/36579366
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#3Well produced video and website, simple and honest presentation. Seems to build a lot on the appeal of Minecraft, but considering how popular Minecraft is that's probably a very smart move. Hope it works out! I'd try it out if there were a Mac version.
Looking at the time-lapse of using it [1] it's certainly not a "game"; you need to have patience and dedication to make anything serious. If there were any friendlier looking interface for learning the principles of 3D editing and animation, though, I sure haven't seen it. Could perhaps inspire a lot of kids from middle-school age and up.
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#4For those who don't watch the video, they're currently raising crowd funding via indiegogo (which is a bit like Kickstarter[1]) and have raised almost $10,000. Link here: http://www.indiegogo.com/craftstudio
[1] IndieGoGo is like Kickstarter except instead of money being taken when they total is reached (with "pledging") it's taken straight away and provided whether or not the project succeeds in raising the total.
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#5Wow, I just got nerd chills while listening to that video, great idea and awesome execution. Where it will shine is when you'll be able to follow a 5min tutorial and create a "Quake" and invite your friends to play your game.. while letting them hack their own characters, edit levels and add more original features to the game.
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#6A well-crafted phpBB. Gratz!
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#7"CraftStudio will provide an easy-to-use scripting system catering to both beginners and power users"
I hope that by supporting power users you mean CraftStudio will support, in addition to your visual scripting language, an existing (textual) programming language. A language has to be text-based for users to input the code with reasonable speed, unless your GUI is fantastic. And if you try to implement your own text-based language, I bet you will miss a lot of useful features of existing languages - and users wouldn't be able to use existing libraries with your language. I've heard that Lua is a popular game scripting language, but there are many other possible languages. So, what are your plans for the scripting language?
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#8Well produced video and website, simple and honest presentation. Seems to build a lot on the appeal of Minecraft, but considering how popular Minecraft is that's probably a very smart move. Hope it works out! I'd try it out if there were a Mac version. Looking at the time-lapse of using it [1] it's certainly not a "game"; you need to have patience and dedication to make anything serious. If there were any friendlier…
To make it more game-like, perhaps CraftStudio could emulate the Jobs function from WarioWare D.I.Y. for the DS. In that game, you were tasked with drawing a small number of assets for a game template, such as drawing your spaceship and enemies in a top-down shooter. It also had a programming challenges function where it asked you to implement a certain functionality, and just one line of code was blank - but you sometimes had to look at the code of the whole rest of the game to figure out what was left.
I would certainly call WarioWario D.I.Y. a "game to make games", so the developer should definitely check it out if he hasn't. It's very polished. Though CraftStudio's scripting system will have to be pretty different. WWDIY's scripting system is very primitive, and has low, hard limits on numbers of objects. It isn't too bad in-game because each game you create is played for only a few seconds, so doesn't have too much stuff, but CraftStudio is obviously different.
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#9Hi, I've got a couple things I wanted to comment on.
First, and the most obvious, I want to say that this looks like a very interesting and fun project. I wish you the best.
Secondly, and I know I'm pointing out the elephant-in-the-post here, but I think if one is launching a product or revealing a project to a wide group of potential users, it would be best to utilize a speaker that is easy-to-understand. This has been a point of criticism in past HN posts. Obviously, I don't mean to be offensive in anyway and I really don't know the most politically correct way of pointing this out. I just simply could not understand a large chunk of what the speaker in the video was saying because of his strong accent.
I think there are some ways around this. For example, you could use a different speaker and if you felt the need to make an appearance or comment in a video as the creator/founder of a project, you could make a couple brief rehearsed/precise comments.
Again, very interesting project and I wish you the best.
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#10Well produced video and website, simple and honest presentation. Seems to build a lot on the appeal of Minecraft, but considering how popular Minecraft is that's probably a very smart move. Hope it works out! I'd try it out if there were a Mac version. Looking at the time-lapse of using it [1] it's certainly not a "game"; you need to have patience and dedication to make anything serious. If there were any friendlier…
Just like you said, I'd play it if there were a mac version.