Game Creation Tools Classification

Game Blocks New Life Interactive (Sheldon Pacotti) (U.S.A.), New Life Interactive (U.S.A.), 2012 Download it Now !

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Classification

GAME CREATION TOOLKIT

Create new autonomous games :

Initial state (levels...)
visual editor
Input methods
keyboard
mouse
Rules of the game
visual editor
Output (graphics, sounds...)
import (images, sounds...)
2D display

Targeted genres :
Any videogame genre

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Game Blocks is a free, open source library for making games. A purely visual programming toolkit, it was built with BYOB, which is built on top of Scratch.

Game Blocks was developed as a teaching aid by game developer Sheldon Pacotti for a course at the University of Texas entitled "RTF 344M: Writing and Narrative Design for Video Games." The library allows novice game designers to experiment with storytelling, animation, physics, interaction and standard game types like adventure games, platformers, and arcade shooters. Projects can be compiled into executables for Mac, PC, and Linux. The library itself, running within BYOB, is cross-platform as well.

Distribution : Internet - Open Source - Free
Platform(s) of the tool : Macintosh - PC (Linux) - PC (Windows)
Platform(s) of the games created : Macintosh - PC (Linux) - PC (Windows)

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