Game Making Engine

[Aureliano]

I am currently searching a game making engine that will allow me to make a good 2D arcade game a-la Doukutsu cave story. Any suggestions would be much appreciated, and also if anyone has some hints or sites for someone who just started out this whole programming games mess.

Thank you in advance.

[Don Andy]

If you don't have any programming skills, I would suggest the Game Maker (http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/gmaker/).

If you have some C++ skills, the Allegro Library (http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/) is pretty nice and easy to use.

[Aureliano]

I will train my hands at those little programs. Thank you. If additionally someone feels enough compassion in his heart to direct me into a place where I could find informations, documentation or the like about the freeware scene and the technical subtilities, I would be much pleased.

[Don Andy]

Oh, yeah, I forgot, if you wanna try Allegro, the best information resource is probably http://www.allegro.cc.

Game Maker provides enough Tutorials and Links on it's own page :)

[Aureliano]

Thank you very much. I am most obligated.

[Kon-Tiki]

Hey, didn't know there's another Allegro programmer here. Do you use Grabber, or do you prefer to hardcode your dat-files?

[Don Andy]

So far, I only used the Grabber for everything. I am working at some kind of little Online RPG, just for practice, but I had to stop on it because of school and stuff -_-

[BlackMageJawa]

If you're really hopeless at programming (like me) and don't mind spending a little bit of money, then try and find a copy of The Games Factory by Europress/Clickteam.

It's quite hard to find now, but it should be on a budget label somewhere. No programming required whatsoever- everything is controlled by simple drag & drop commands.

Making advanced projects is hard (but just about possible), but simple platformers or shooters are easy.

[chickenman]

make your own game engine it will save you a lot of time :ok:

[Don Andy]

Originally posted by BlackMageJawa@May 13 2005, 08:52 AM
If you're really hopeless at programming (like me) and don't mind spending a little bit of money, then try and find a copy of The Games Factory by Europress/Clickteam.

It's quite hard to find now, but it should be on a budget label somewhere. No programming required whatsoever- everything is controlled by simple drag & drop commands.

Making advanced projects is hard (but just about possible), but simple platformers or shooters are easy.
Game Maker is pretty much the same (the last time I used Game Factory it was), just that Game Maker is Freeware (if you want some things like Multiplayer or Particles, you have to purchase the Game Maker, too).

But nevertheless, ChickenMan is right, you're best off with your own engine ;)