JJames19119 Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 http://www.stencyl.com/ A tile based game maker huh? Lunar Magic was highly acclaimed and extremely popular because of this but what can it do for generalized game making aside from constrict things even further? Well, Mario fan game makers can all rejoice at least since Mario happens to be very heavily reliant on tile based games. Sonic is too but none of the tiles are nearly as blocky as Mario's is. Creating a Sonic kit would be...hell, that's a good word to describe it. If not impossible. At least other tile based games will get a lot of new fan games after this is released, should it be any good. Your thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeHedgehog Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 This has me on edge. While stuff like Multimedia Fusion and GameMaker don't advertise Fangames and focus more on the original content... This is blatantly, right out in the open, saying they're going to include graphics and code packs for Megaman, Mario, Secret of Mana, etc. - ripped right out of their respective games. Not look-alikes or anything. Their "game browser" (which blatantly copies the Wii Channels Browser) even name-checks a lot of SNES classics. This could be really bad for fangaming, depending on how they handle things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syonic Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 WOOO!!! finally, an ACTION-RPG I can finally create...ok wheres my pen and paper for future ref! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorSatyr Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 This is blatantly, right out in the open, saying they're going to include graphics and code packs for Megaman, Mario, Secret of Mana, etc. - ripped right out of their respective games. Not look-alikes or anything. Their "game browser" (which blatantly copies the Wii Channels Browser) even name-checks a lot of SNES classics. Wow, I didn't pay enough attention to catch that. That's some serious business. If they don't get cracked down by companies early enough, It might mean trouble for the entire community later on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damizean Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 It's free and opensource, so don't think it's more ilegal than what we already have here Anyway, this program seems like it could be an awesome level editor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asuma Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 I can finally make something cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Looks really bad. Why? Because now it will take NO talent to make a fangame, and for those who have been working hard on theirs in the past, it will be hard to tell between actual worked on games and some tile-changed engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Winslow Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 I find an interesting ability to this. perhaps you want to build a concept of something to show to an actual programmer? that way it saves time explaining every idea you have in an insane document that doesn't quite make sense. atleast that's how I see it. I'm not exactly happy with the copyright infringement from hell, but atleast there's something interesting here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midiman Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 old. showed Slingerland this like a month ago. still hasn't been released. 10 rep points says this gets released later than the assumed release date. EDIT: They changed it from April to May. I want 10 rep points 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJames19119 Posted April 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 It's free and opensource, so don't think it's more ilegal than what we already have here Anyway, this program seems like it could be an awesome level editor Quoted for truth. Although the other people also have a point. However, this does indeed look like it might be fake. If you look on the Team page as Spazzo (Of SRB2MB) once pointed out, they all use chat friendly names. So either they're really shady or they're people just like us trying to make things better for the community. (Or worse depending on how you look at it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midiman Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 Most likely they are just making things better for the community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asuma Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 Quoted for truth. Although the other people also have a point.However, this does indeed look like it might be fake. If you look on the Team page as Spazzo (Of SRB2MB) once pointed out, they all use chat friendly names. So either they're really shady or they're people just like us trying to make things better for the community. (Or worse depending on how you look at it) Yeah, I'm sure they're wasting their time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jobro Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 Well I have to take a look. Shady or not this might be something. Well I'll do that when the kit is completed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeltaSpeeds Posted July 29, 2007 Report Share Posted July 29, 2007 Looks really bad. Why? Because now it will take NO talent to make a fangame, and for those who have been working hard on theirs in the past, it will be hard to tell between actual worked on games and some tile-changed engine. I agree. Remember before the 360 engine? People had to make there own slop, collision, and effect codes from scratch. Coming up with new features that other games don't have is half the fun. If all games all had the same features, wouldn't that be boring? The only thing that would change is environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asuma Posted July 29, 2007 Report Share Posted July 29, 2007 jobro: Don't bump old topics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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