Good news everyone! Building on top of our previous updates (which were slightly more under the radar, where we moved to an HTML5 game engine, integrated google blockly, implemented many user interface improvements, editor and game previewing performance, and speed boosts) we’re pleased to more overtly announce a major update.
Gamefroot 2.3 is the version of Gamefroot we’ve been holding out for, and now almost feature rich enough to fully replace ye old Gamefroot V1.0.
This new version introduces template games and prefabs (which we’ll explain shortly). Earlier this year we decided to move away from locking our community into creating platform games in favour of making Gamefroot both easy and powerful enough for you to make ANY type of 2D game.
In doing so we temporarily had to disable the classic drag-and-drop functionality that we’d all come to love and cherish. Well, we’re pleased to let you know that the new Classic Gamefroot Template is bringing back the easy drag-and-drop functionality that Gamefroot 1.0 had. You can choose from a variety of interactive items and characters, and place them into your game – then hit Play – and boom you got a game. It’s as easy as that.
We’ll be adding more and more functionality to this template and prefabs, with the goal of making it a complete replacement of the old Gamefroot over the coming weeks.
- Templates: Pre-built games that you can open up and build upon – useful for learning how Gamefroot works! Template games are available from the New Game window.
- Prefabs: Scripted game objects that are ready to use with no further scripting required – for example, a character that you can drop into your game that already has a script attached.
The recent changes we’ve made to Gamefroot enable you to push your game making skills further than ever. Try it out, and see what kind of awesome games you can make. Over coming weeks we’ll be posting examples showcasing what has become possible, and showing you how it’s done. Go make games!
Questions or comments? Check out 2.3.3 changelog, you can hit us up on Twitter, Facebook, and the support page. Your ideas could make it into the next version of the Gamefroot Game Creator!