Review by Matt S. Nintendo’s pivot towards LEGO-like entertainment experiences has been a joy to behold. Between the AR Mario Kart, Labo, and now Game Builder Garage, Nintendo is out there encouraging kids to be creative, to design things, and to learn important thought processes and logic as they have…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. One of the best thing about itch.io is that it provides an outlet for the most creative, alternative projects… and producing Game Boy games in 2020 certainly qualifies as that. Make the game and there’s a wealth of distribution opportunities available to you – emulators on…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Degica Games has announced that RPG Maker MX would be available via Steam this summer (winter for Aussies). RPG Maker is one of those things that we’ve loved playing around with over the years, and it has been an opportunity for a lot of young and…
Read MorePreview by Harvard L. As someone who writes about games I’m always both fascinated by and apprehensive of the jump towards developing my own: I have a level of head knowledge about systems, stories and mechanics that work from a larger scale, but each time I try to translate these…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It’s called Action Game Maker MV in Japan, but we’ve had confirmation that the latest in that long series of branded “Maker” software titles, designed to make it easy for people with no programming experience whatsoever, will release in Summer (or Winter for Aussies). As the…
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I love RPG Maker. I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it. I love anything that encourages people to be creative and get “hands on” with their favourite hobbies, rather than being passive consumers of it. I love Tyranobuilder because it lets people make their own…
Read MoreFor people who lack coding skills, or those who want to play around with making simple games before the move into real game development projects on Unity or Unreal, there have been simple drag-and-drop software packages like RPG Maker over the years that have allowed them to build their own games…
Read MorePreview by Nick H. While Adventurezator: When Pigs Fly may be a mouthful of a title, the game itself is also more than a little filling. For starters, this is a creation game, not unlike RPG Maker VX Ace or FPS Creator. Video games often engage the imagination, and these…
Read MoreConstruct 2 is a software package that is rapidly earning a reputation for being a wonderful entrant point for aspiring game developers. It’s still in its early stages, but by all accounts it is very easy to work with and the fact it uses HTML5 means that people can produce…
Read MoreRemember that Valve announced it would be selling computer software through its popular digital distribution service Steam way back in August of 2012? No, neither did I. While that partly has to do with the fact that Valve missed its delivery date by almost a month (September 5th was the…
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