FreeGameDev

Has someone of you worked with this tool? Are there caveats?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/game-editor/

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: I played a bit around using the space invaders demo.
All in all it seems nice, but some things seem to be a bit ... unpolished.
* The custom GUI is a bit ugly in my opinion. YMMV, but i find the half transparent menus pretty annoying. Is there a way to switch them off?
* It seems you have to use the standard splash screen in your games. A minor problem compared to the GUI.

I got it running on my 32bit arch netbook a while ago but I decided that as long as it doesn't run on 64bit, it's too unstable to pay attention to. The licensing was a bit confusing as well.

there also Tiled, but i worked not very often with it, i only tested it a week or two

Sauer2 {l Wrote}:* The custom GUI is a bit ugly in my opinion. YMMV, but i find the half transparent menus pretty annoying. Is there a way to switch them off?
* It seems you have to use the standard splash screen in your games. A minor problem compared to the GUI.

There's always a way in open source software to switch things off. I would assume you'd have to grep the code for where the screen image is embedded and where menu color alpha values are set, change these and recompile.

Interesting. Do you know of other GameMaker-like open source projects?

Blender3D has a node-based way to control the game engine.
EasyRPG (RPG Maker style) https://github.com/EasyRPG/
Construct Classic is open source http://www.scirra.com/construct-classic
There's one more, starts with "M" I think. Might be just a programming framework, although in my memory it seemed like it could have drag and drop programming.
There's Scratch, but I'm not sure about its license: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_License/1.4License

A search revealed more tools:
http://lin.is-programmer.com/
http://stellarpygame.blogspot.de/
http://enigma-dev.org/

Unfortunately I have no experience with any of these. Some game developer friends seem to like using Scratch for teaching children to program, but Kodu (Microsoft, proprietary) seems to also be popular.

thanks for the list. i don't use them either but gamemaker seems super popular in game jams.

an GameMaker recently added HTML5 output.. people love it

qubodup {l Wrote}:There's Scratch, but I'm not sure about its license: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_License/1.4License

Seems like a perfectly valid open source license to me, essentially the normal MIT license with a trademark claim and a requirement of a single sentence statement at place of distribution.

At the jams that I participate in ( http://www.berlinminijam.de/ ), Unity3D seems to be a dominant constant favorite.

andrewj {l Wrote}:

qubodup {l Wrote}:There's Scratch, but I'm not sure about its license: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_License/1.4License

Seems like a perfectly valid open source license to me, essentially the normal MIT license with a trademark claim and a requirement of a single sentence statement at place of distribution.

Such a single sentence statement requirement seemed to have the result of permissive software becoming GPL-incompatible in the past http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licens ... ense.22.29

I'm surprised no one has ever mentioned the Official Hamster Republic Role Playing Game Construction Engine.
The engine is GPL v2 or later, and well, the games, I'm not sure.
Its somewhat limited in what you can do (the old style color palettes and what not.) at the same time the limitations make it more appealing. I have played a few games with it. They vary somewhat in quality, but if you like
classic rpgs, and even some other types of games, it is good to have. http://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/Main_Page