Thursday, July 10, 2008

MAKE YOUR OWN VIDEO GAMES

Have you been in the house playing video games all summer? Perhaps you want to design your own challenge. Do you want to make your own video games? The truth is that you won't be able to easily design any really detailed realistic, movie-like graphics like the games you are probably playing now have. That requires some serious programming.
These programs linked below can be the beginning of your journey in learning how to make such complex games. It is a lot of fun.
There are tutorials which explain how to create a scrolling shooter games, maze games, first person shooter games, and even 3-d games. The program is called Gamemaker 7.0.
Download it and try it out. Check out the wiki for help and support. The tutorials are really good.
http://www.yoyogames.com/make
Here is the manual in Spanish:
http://www.yoyogames.com/wiki/attached/2/man_spanish.zip

Torque Game Designer:
http://www.garagegames.com/products/torque/tgb
Check out the Torque Game Builder. You can download a free trial. The download box is the third box down on the left side. This program is very thorough and the trial is for 30 days, so have fun. You can save your work too, make sure to do that!

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