- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $59.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: July 17, 2006
- Total Downloads: 282,099
- Downloads last week: 312
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 240 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Once you figure out the interface, you can build professional-looking games with The Games Factory. However, it's a long slog. The program comes with background elements, active objects, and even some animated characters. You can choose to include functions such as the boss key (F5) or instructions (F1), but you can't change key assignments. Neither of the options for the Jump action is the intuitive up arrow.
The help is spotty. It refers to the Multimedia Level as the "game level." Also, it says you can include sound files, but it doesn't tell you how. According to the Lectures file we downloaded from the publisher's site, the program imports MIDI soundtracks and WAV samples. Importable image files include PCX, BMP, IFF, RLE, and DIB. The animation editor will bring in existing FLI or FLC files.
The trial version lets you build and test a game, but you can't export it as a standalone file or as a Web game. Buying the Home version allows you to distribute games and screensavers for free, whereas the Pro version adds the right to charge for your creations. Aspiring game designers with patience and time might find The Games Factory useful.
Publisher's description
From Clickteam :Get ready to amaze your friends and family! Be ready to hear, "How did you do that?" Nothing beats the feeling you get when you complete your first game and other people play it. Nothing is more inspiring than having people anticipate your next creation. Make your computer into a games factory today! The Games factory 2 is the follow up to the hugely successful Games Factory. The Games Factory's simpler interface and controls can be a great way for adults and children to get started in the fun, educational, and rewarding, world of Click creation! The Games Factory provides everything you need to manufacture Arcade games, Platform games, Adventures, Screen Savers. You simply click on an object, drag it to the play field, and click on the action it should perform. We supply all the heroes, monsters, powerups, and other objects you need, plus the sound and music for your games. Of course, you can easily add your own, custom items if you choose.
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- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 240 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: The Games Factory 2 build D240
"Extremily good, but a few minor problems"
Pros: It is easy. Just start it up, press New, open a object library, drop the objects in, program them and your done. In reality that would take me about 10 mins. Next there is expansion. Anybody with knowlege of I think it is C can make an extension (you might be able to do that on MMF2 Developer). For TGF1 there was MooSock (Multiplayer Online Object), File Encryption etc. Im sure these great extensions will be ported to this one. Finally its stability. The older 1.06 build 32 version, being partly 16bit based even if you chose the 32bit version was awful, crashing all the time. This though is just excellent. It has never crashed during my trial and the 'limited' games I have made (the entire library of objects was not included to make the download small) were excellent. Faster and more responsive than the older 1.06 build 32 created games.
Cons: It takes a while to learn. Well didn't BASIC, C, Windows, DOS, Your Computer? I happen to be a young person who gets this stuff well and I do find it a little bit harder than the old TGF1. And that seems to be it.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: The Games Factory 2 build D240
Cons: sucked it didn't do anything i wanted it to do
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Version: The Games Factory 2 build D240
Pros: Relatively easy to use.
Cons: Can only do 2D platform games, very limited. There are better game development systems.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: The Games Factory 2 build D240
Pros: Easy to use. Good for beginners in game making.
Cons: Not many functions i better like Gamemaker
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