Check out some of the coolest Gamefroot games made in April:
Gamefroot Game Creator 1.6 Release Notes
Brand new Gamefroot Features! Try them out! The most recent features added in Gamefroot version 1.6 are:
Custom bullets- Keys and Doors
- Custom loading screen
- Ice and Destructible tiles
- Inventory items via scripts
- Script command for position of camera
- Load your levels straight from the Template selection window
Gamefroot Game Creator 1.5 Release Notes
The next big things to hit Gamefroot have been thrown into the mix. Go play with them now! The most recent features added in Gamefroot version 1.5 are:
- Top-down character AI Editor (accessible by right-clicking on top-down characters)
- Ability edit any item graphics with the free online DeviantART Muro drawing tool (accessible by right-clicking on items on the stage)
Game Roundup – March
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Here are some nifty games from March 2013 on Gamefroot:
Death’s Reach
By Montyguy
Try to defeat the Devil’s Army of the Dead. There’s only 1 of you and 200 of them… not good for you!
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Byrontopia
By Byroncoco
Navigate through a maze of winding tunnels while avoiding getting shot or burned alive in lava!
Crazy Soldier
By TryTo CatchMe
Fight through all the halloween monsters, but beware the super fast Vampires!
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Lava Boss
By gogoboss
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Another tricky platformer where you have to get past the many enemies and avoid falling into the lava.
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Dare
By fatgus
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This game is all about finding the right way to go, fighting fast, and to being temped by the detours along the way. Complete it if you dare!
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Good work guys, keep ’em coming!
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Free Dinosaur Character Pack!
ROAR!!! Check out these awesome Dinosaur characters, totally FREE on the Gamefroot Marketplace! We’ve got a Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and Velociraptor. Go make a Dinosaur game now!
The Lens of Essential Experience
One of the things we constantly think about here at Gamefroot HQ is how to make good games. No not just good games but awesome games. When you’ve got a game creation tool as easy to use as Gamefroot there can be no excuse for making good games… you should be making awesome games!!
To help us make games our own games we have started to embrace “The Art of Game Design” toolkit; a set of rules / game mechanics that are easy enough for anybody to understand and apply to their game. There are 100 lens for us to learn and we’ll be posting a new one every couple of days. When we post a lens please let us know what you think by leaving a comment.
1 – The Lens of Essential Experience
To use this lens, stop thinking about your game, and start thinking about the experience of the user. Ask yourself these questions:
– What experience do I want the player to have?
– What is essential to that experience?
– How can my game capture that experience?
Make artwork and make games – Made easy!
Note: this feature is not currently available
With Gamefroot’s recent update you can now import any artwork from your DeviantART sta.sh account straight into a Gamefroot game. Check out this video to see how easy it is for artists to customize their games!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNUkuNM6DhQ
Gamefroot Game Creator 1.4 Release Notes
The latest round of upgrades to the Gamefroot Game Creator have been added! Check it out here. This is potentially one of the coolest updates we have ever had, with some awesome features that make much easier to customize your games.
Here are the important features we have added to Gamefroot version 1.4:
Game Roundup – January
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For the first month of 2013 we’ve had a load of good games produced on Gamefroot. Check out some of the ones we thought were pretty great:
Muffin Cave Quest
By Natasha Skye Bishop
Oh noes, the cave ceiling is collapsing! Grab as many muffins as you can, there’s no time to explain!
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SAYONARA BABY
By Alvaro Aparicio
Batman vs Terminator Robots. Me gusta!
Teddo’s Odyssey
By Cass
Even though Cass says this is just a test level, it looks so cool! Can’t wait to see what comes next.
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Bowserflame Challenge IX
By Bowserflame
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If you’re still hungry even after collecting all those muffins, here are some cookies… and some lava. Don’t drink the lava.
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Bowserflame’s Mega Blast
By Bowserflame
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In this game, each time you collect a ball a new one spawns in a different location. The more blue balls you get, the higher your score goes, but you have to avoid getting shot by the enemies that constantly spawn from the top. A brilliant use of scripting by Bowserflame!
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John’s Game
By Casonp
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Kill the skeletons and dodge the obstacles. This game is a nicely done platformer – made in the classic Gamefroot style!
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Great stuff, everybody!
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Big things coming… in the next Gamefroot Update!
Get ready for some awesome new features coming soon to Gamefroot.
- Insert images of any size into your game as terrain and items!
- Spawn enemies with scripts!
- Script commands to detect where the mouse is, and to use mouse clicks to trigger events!
What does that mean? Well, you will soon be able to make games like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuabNSj4oas
Things are about to get a lot more interesting at Gamefroot, so stay tuned…