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Round up: Other Easy Game Dev Tools

Philip Gamble — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:51:47 +0000

Stencyl is to add options to their StencylWorks game creation tool to allow users to export and create native iOS, Android and HTML5 games. Dubbed iStencyl details of pricing have not yet been released.

The GameSalad game creation tool last week added Android publishing alongside their existing iOS and HTML5 publishing options. Publishing to Android requires a Pro account which costs $499 a year.

Scirra recently posted about their anti-piracy strategy. Their post contains a nice .gif visualising the effect DRM has on paying customers which those who experienced problems with GameMaker 7 and 8s Softwrap will surely understand!

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Stencyl Games Emerge

Philip Gamble — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:23:51 +0000

The Stencyl game creation tool which has been in development for a couple of years has finally released 3 games which are fully playable within a browser that have been created using its engine. The project, which no longer plans to be open-source, had been labelled vapourware by many as little had emerged publicly from the team behind the project.

All of the released games are platformers.

A release date has still not been announced but there there is a beta program which you can apply to join – if you try and get any joy please let me know.

Self-promotion disclaimer/excuse for a link: I have a terribly out of date blog about Stencyl (formerly Stencyl.org).

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New iPhone Game Development Platform

Philip Gamble — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:33:09 +0000

Gendai Games have released an on-application-only alpha of their GameSalad game creation tool.

Resources to use during game creation are hosted online, and can be dragged-and-dropped into place. Whilst GameSalad is currently only compatible with the Mac OS platform the games it creates are playable online and on the iPhone.

The “YouTube for Games” idea that YoYo Games wanted to follow is part of their plan, as well as allowing game creators to monetize games – something which YoYo Games has yet to do.

The Gendai Development Team

Mashable conducted an interview with Gendai’s Yoshi which can be seen below:

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