Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

Re:Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience... by deanclatworthy on Friday June 14, 2019 @02:37AM (#20180950)

Does anyone else remember an old "game" for making games? It would have been late 90s when I played it, and I remember we bought it on a CD. You could build little top down games in it, I think the example was a football game.

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Re:Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience... by organsnyder on Friday June 14, 2019 @09:34AM (#20182814)

My family's software company published a product called "Game Builder" in the early-mid 90s that could be used to create adventure games. Here's a listing of it from 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19990224063815/http://www.mvpsof...

Ha: "In our testing, children as young as eight years old could easily write games with Game Builder Lite..." I'm guessing that would have been me in 1992.

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Re:Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience... by jamesfmilne on Friday June 14, 2019 @03:03AM (#20181038)

GameMaker? Now developed by Yoyo Games

https://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker

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Re:Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience... by teddyh on Friday June 14, 2019 @09:37AM (#20182847)

These are too early to be the one you’re looking for, but there have been a number of these, including these two I had myself back in the day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kitchen%27s_GameMaker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot-%27Em-Up_Construction_Ki...

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Re:Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience... by umjames on Friday June 14, 2019 @11:35AM (#20183820)

I remember GameMaker from the 80s on the Apple ][e!

Also had Adventure Construction Set by EA (before they went all sports-crazy): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Construction_Set

I also had a cracked copy of Pinball Construction Set too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Construction_Set

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Re:Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience... by teddyh on Saturday June 15, 2019 @07:08AM (#20189437)

Oh, and this one, too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_Adventure_Creator

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Re:Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience... by figiel on Friday June 14, 2019 @02:38AM (#20180963)

Klick & Play?

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Re:Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience... by TeMPOraL on Friday June 14, 2019 @02:44AM (#20180979)

Or maybe the latter iteration of it (which I grew up with), The Games Factory.

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Re:Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience... by bovermyer on Friday June 14, 2019 @01:15PM (#20184674)

Man, I lost many hours to Klik & Play. Most of the games I made were terrible Arkanoid clones.

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Re:Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience... by duchenne on Friday June 14, 2019 @02:56AM (#20181019)

Games factory? Thanks to that game, me and my friends made many games without programming back in middle school.

https://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Home-Education/The-Game...

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Re:Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience... by taneq on Friday June 14, 2019 @08:34AM (#20182429)

I had that (and its precursor, Klik'n'Play). They were a good bridge to programming; by the time you're making something approaching a commercial game in them, your event grid is huge and you're doing a ton of work with hidden objects which you're basically using as a weird kind of declarative programming language. At which point it's easier to just write actual code in an actual language.

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Re:Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience... by kh_hk on Friday June 14, 2019 @06:39AM (#20181884)

DIV games studio?

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Re:Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience... by pizzabearman on Friday June 14, 2019 @09:28AM (#20182767)

DIV game studio was really cool. Especially the online community forum where you could share your creations. I still remember that clay animation game. It looked so impressive

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Re:Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience... by Blaiz0r on Friday June 14, 2019 @09:45AM (#20182921)

STOS?

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