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Does anyone else remember an old "game" for making games? It would have been late 90s when I played it, and I remember we bought it on a CD. You could build lit

Does anyone else remember an old "game" for making games? It would have been late 90s when I played it, and I remember we bought it on a CD. You could build little top down games in it, I think the example was a football game.

figiel 7y ago
Klick & Play?
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  Or maybe the latter iteration of it (which I grew up with), The Games Factory.
- bovermyer 7y ago
  Man, I lost many hours to Klik & Play. Most of the games I made were terrible Arkanoid clones.
duchenne 7y ago
Games factory? Thanks to that game, me and my friends made many games without programming back in middle school. https://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Home-Education/The-Games-Factory-2.shtml https://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Home-Education/The-Game...
- taneq 7y ago
  I had that (and its precursor, Klik'n'Play). They were a good bridge to programming; by the time you're making something approaching a commercial game in them, your event grid is huge and you're doing a ton of work with hidden objects which you're basically using as a weird kind of declarative programming language. At which point it's easier to just write actual code in an actual language.
jamesfmilne 7y ago
GameMaker? Now developed by Yoyo Games https://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker https://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker
kh_hk 7y ago
DIV games studio?
- pizzabearman 7y ago
  DIV game studio was really cool. Especially the online community forum where you could share your creations. I still remember that clay animation game. It looked so impressive
organsnyder 7y ago
My family's software company published a product called "Game Builder" in the early-mid 90s that could be used to create adventure games. Here's a listing of it from 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19990224063815/http://www.mvpsoft.com/creation.htm#game_builder https://web.archive.org/web/19990224063815/http://www.mvpsof... Ha: "In our testing, children as young as eight years old could easily write games with Game Builder Lite..." I'm guessing that would have been me in 1992.
teddyh 7y ago
These are too early to be the one you’re looking for, but there have been a number of these, including these two I had myself back in the day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kitchen%27s_GameMaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kitchen%27s_GameMaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot-%27Em-Up_Construction_Kit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot-%27Em-Up_Construction_Ki...
- umjames 7y ago
  I remember GameMaker from the 80s on the Apple ][e! Also had Adventure Construction Set by EA (before they went all sports-crazy): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Construction_Set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Construction_Set I also had a cracked copy of Pinball Construction Set too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Construction_Set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Construction_Set
- teddyh 7y ago
  Oh, and this one, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_Adventure_Creator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_Adventure_Creator
Blaiz0r 7y ago
STOS?

figiel 7y ago

Klick & Play?

TeMPOraL 7y ago
Or maybe the latter iteration of it (which I grew up with), The Games Factory.
bovermyer 7y ago
Man, I lost many hours to Klik & Play. Most of the games I made were terrible Arkanoid clones.

duchenne 7y ago

Games factory? Thanks to that game, me and my friends made many games without programming back in middle school. https://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Home-Education/The-Games-Factory-2.shtml https://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Home-Education/The-Game...

taneq 7y ago
I had that (and its precursor, Klik'n'Play). They were a good bridge to programming; by the time you're making something approaching a commercial game in them, your event grid is huge and you're doing a ton of work with hidden objects which you're basically using as a weird kind of declarative programming language. At which point it's easier to just write actual code in an actual language.

jamesfmilne 7y ago

GameMaker? Now developed by Yoyo Games https://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker https://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker

kh_hk 7y ago

DIV games studio?

pizzabearman 7y ago
DIV game studio was really cool. Especially the online community forum where you could share your creations. I still remember that clay animation game. It looked so impressive

organsnyder 7y ago

My family's software company published a product called "Game Builder" in the early-mid 90s that could be used to create adventure games. Here's a listing of it from 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19990224063815/http://www.mvpsoft.com/creation.htm#game_builder https://web.archive.org/web/19990224063815/http://www.mvpsof... Ha: "In our testing, children as young as eight years old could easily write games with Game Builder Lite..." I'm guessing that would have been me in 1992.

teddyh 7y ago

These are too early to be the one you’re looking for, but there have been a number of these, including these two I had myself back in the day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kitchen%27s_GameMaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kitchen%27s_GameMaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot-%27Em-Up_Construction_Kit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot-%27Em-Up_Construction_Ki...

umjames 7y ago
I remember GameMaker from the 80s on the Apple ][e! Also had Adventure Construction Set by EA (before they went all sports-crazy): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Construction_Set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Construction_Set I also had a cracked copy of Pinball Construction Set too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Construction_Set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Construction_Set
teddyh 7y ago
Oh, and this one, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_Adventure_Creator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_Adventure_Creator

Blaiz0r 7y ago

STOS?