[BETA] Game Builder

[cadin]

Hi all,
I'm getting ready to release the first version of my Game Builder.

It's a little swf that allows you to create custom games for your site. You can see a game that I made with it here: www.myspace.com/thepencilfarm.

I've been fixing millions of bugs today, and I need some fresh sets of eyes to help me find any remaining problems.

I'd also be interested in anyone's general impressions or thoughts.
Thanks.

[TheLostGuru]

Good work. It really wasn't that fascinating to me as a fellow game developer, but I think for those people who don't have any game making experience, they will love it. Although, we might have a wave of swimming turtle, catching gems, avoiding mine games in the next little while... I didn't notice any bugs and it was really self-explanatory.

[tonypa]

No problems here. Looks good and it all worked like expected.

[phreax]

Nicely done! As already stated, you probably won't get much from developers but it really has a nice look and the tempo, flow and control in the game is very good!

[artlink]

Yeah...

nice little game indeed, but doesn't really seem like a "building game" to me.

It's just about customizing really and it's a nice feature that could be kept in the game on start up to have a "different" game everyday.

Just not convinced by the way you "see" it or try to sell it.

[T1ger]

Works well, although I didnt like that all gametypes just had one way to control the hero.. maybe you should add option to use arrow-keys too? And you could add an options for easy-hard, and adjust the "gravity" and the speed when spacebar is held down.

Otherwise, nice work

[Djugan]

Great concept and it worked really well. No problems for me.

[cadin]

Thanks guys.
You are absolutely right, it's not really meant to be a hard-core game building tool. It's just a customizable game. "Game Customizer" sounds kind of stupid though .

People are always asking me if they can put my games on their MySpace, so I thought I'd do them one better and let them put their own custom game on there.

I agree with T1ger that it needs more gameplay options. It's something I plan to add later (along with more art). I think it's ok as it is for the first version.

[peejaroni]

I thought that that was a great idea!
I don't know if this is possible (It probably isn't) but it would be better if you let people upload their own images.
It wasn't like making a game in flash, but for someone who can't program this would be great.