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For the low price of 280 credits, you can get all these new War themed characters and tiles! This pack builds upon the original World War II pack.
This pack includes: Vietnam War US Soldier, Vietcong Enemies, Desert Camo Soldier, Middle-Eastern Fighters, Insurgent Jeep, Huey Helicopter, Desert Tank, Helicopter gunner, Tank Gun, grassy ground tiles, desert ground tiles.
Go to the Gamefroot Level Editor and buy this pack now!
Now you can make awesome topdown games just like this! Just open the Marketplace, and grab the asset pack called “Top-Down Expanded”.
The pack includes an assortment of characters, and trees, grass tiles, desert tiles, rock tiles, industrial tiles, ice tiles and wooden tiles, as well as a bunch of obstacles and props.
Go get it now. It’s free!
We’ve added the ability for you to change the lighting level in your game, but there was a bug for a short while that removed all the light from some recently made games.
If you’re game is totally dark, here’s how to fix it:
Open the level up, go to Level Properties (in the File Menu), and then type 100 for level light. Save the changes, then save your game.
Happy Holidays Gamefrooters! This most recent round of Gamefroot games have shown that a lot of people have been grabbing heaps of free goodies from our new Marketplace – so if you haven’t tried that yet, check it out now!
Here are some fun games made by you guys that we’ve been playing:
Note: this feature is not currently available.
With Gamefroot’s new Marketplace you can now share your game characters, terrain, items, music, sounds, and weapons with everyone. We love to see community generated content, and we think this is the next big step to having an amazing game creation experience.
Continue reading “Share your content with the world (and make money doing it!)”
Note: this tutorial is out of date. You can use the concepts from this tutorial combined with the up-to-date tutorials listed below:
Today I will demonstrate how we can quickly make a sword-fighting game by taking advantage of a couple of new features in Gamefroot. Pretty much every Gamefroot game so far is based on shooting people, so lets add some variation into the mix! Here is an example of the kind of game we want to make:
The business United Sweets has proved that Gamefroot can be used as an effective marketing tool by creating a game as part of their promotional campaign during Armageddon Expo 2012. It has since become one of the more popular games on Gamefroot.com!
Continue reading “Gamification of Brands Case Study: United Sweets”
The latest round of upgrades to the Gamefroot Game Creator have been added! Check it out here. This latest release brings you a bunch of important new features that make it a whole lot easier to create awesome games.
Gamefroot games are just getting better and better! Congratulations to everyone that got featured this time, we love to see your work.
Check out these recently made games that we think are pretty great:
Note: to use these character images, you will need to cut the sprites out of the sprite sheet (you can use this http://spritecutie.com/), and follow this tutorial: http://gamefroot.com/knowledgebase/animate-and-upload-your-own-character/
Our new Top-Down game mode doesn’t yet have the variety of characters that platformer mode has, so here are a couple of sprite sheets to get you started!
To upload these characters into your games, first download the sprite sheets by right-clicking on them and selecting “Save image as”.
Then fire up the new Gamefroot Level Editor and set your game to Top-Down mode by clicking File > New Level > Top-Down Level. Then open the Asset Manager. Click the asset pack called “My Assets”, click “Create New Assets” and select Characters. Then click “Upload your own”, and find the location where you saved the character sprite sheets.
Feel free to modify these as you wish.
Continue reading “Use these characters in your Top-Down Games”