Game Editor - cross-platform open-source program, a
2D game construction program that supports development for many platforms: iPhone, Mac OS X, Windows, iPad, Linux, GP2X, Windows-smartphones, Handheld PC, PocketPC.
The program's integration with multiple platforms has been noted by the well-known game developer site
Game Discovery. This sets the program apart from other similar programs:
Game Maker, Darkbasic, 3D Gamemaker.
Program features
In
Game Editor, games are created as a combination of game objects, referred to in this program as
actor (акторы). Their behavior is defined by describing reactions to various occurring events. The appearance of actors is controlled by a package of animated sprites embedded within them (animations).
Game Editor exports graphic files: gif, jpeg, png, lbm, tif, tga, xpm, xcf, bmp, pcx formats; and audio (WAV, MID, Ogg Vorbis, S3M, IT, MOD, XM) files. In image files, alpha channels are recognized; for formats that do not support them, the top-left pixel color is considered transparent. The scripting language for describing reactions to various events is an interpreter of the C EiC language.
This application is a full-fledged software suite designed for creating games for many currently popular platforms. This software package is intended for those who want to create video games but do not want to burden themselves with learning programming.
Feature
It is worth noting that this program runs only on desktop computers, but games made with it can be created not only for computers but also for phones and smartphones.
In terms of capabilities, this program strongly resembles a quite cool and advanced editor used for creating various types of multimedia projects. However, unlike existing analogs, this software product was originally designed for creating video games with two-dimensional graphics.
Game creation happens in a fairly simple way, and only the simplest and most understandable scripts are used for actions. As mentioned above, this program supports many different platforms. Therefore, if you decide to start creating games, truly wide possibilities open up before you.
Advantages
In fact, you have the ability to track and adjust your project literally at every step. This software product absolutely does not limit you in action. There is a possibility of detailed adjustment and task setting for game characters and objects. A very developed system of triggers and event activation allows you to give your project the maximum possible realism.
One of the few unique features of this program is the presence of physics calculation, which allows creating a full-fledged collision system. However, it should be understood that it is impossible to create a game without using the necessary scripts. In this program, everything is built so simply that creating scripts and even entire levels will not cause you serious problems.
Overall, this software product is a very good tool that allows creating 2D games of very high quality and absolutely any genre. To create a game, you just need to use the simplest scripts that even the most inexperienced person far from programming can handle.
As for graphics, this directly depends on the skill of the person creating the game. That is, the more beautifully a person draws, the more beautiful the final product will look. It should be noted that this program is capable of supporting even high screen resolutions, and this value sometimes reaches 1280 by 1024.
There is the ability to create a switch that will allow you to toggle the game from windowed mode to fullscreen and back. The developers decided to take care of alpha channel support, and indeed they did not do this in vain, because in modern 2D games you really cannot do without it.
