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NiKKoM on 17 August 2008

Well if flash is out of the question.... try Torque Game Builder
http://www.garagegames.com/products/torque/tgb/



 

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twesterm on 17 August 2008

Torque is a great tool and works well with XNA so I hear. If you're looking for free Scrolling Game Development Kit isn't bad and definitely worth the free price.

As for animation tools, since you're making a 2D game you're just going to have to make a lot of sprites. Photoshop is the best but you can use most anything (even Srolling Game Dev comes with a special tool).



 

JOKA_ on 17 August 2008
steven787 said:
I'm no game maker, but I used this:
http://www.yoyogames.com/make

There's a free demo that lets you make games, it's pretty much the whole thing with out the ability to make exe's in the demo.

 

In my freshmen year Game Dev class we used this and it worked well enough.  My friend and I are currently working on a new one (using Game Maker again) and we're going to enter it in the IGF student competition :P



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Gearbox on 17 August 2008

dont mak e agame in game maker... ull be disapointed they all lake something.



steven787 on 18 August 2008
twesterm said:
Torque is a great tool and works well with XNA so I hear. If you're looking for free Scrolling Game Development Kit isn't bad and definitely worth the free price.

As for animation tools, since you're making a 2D game you're just going to have to make a lot of sprites. Photoshop is the best but you can use most anything (even Srolling Game Dev comes with a special tool).

Wow, that looks pretty cool.  I'm going to try that out.  It doesn't look as easy but it seems like you can do a lot more stuff easier for scrolling games.

 



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super_etecoon on 18 August 2008

Torque seems interesting. It even seems that Protothea, the recent WiiWare game was created using the Torque for Wii dev kit. I think I'll start in yoyo to get some of the basic concepts down....then maybe graduate on to Torque.