The Games Factory 2

It's pretty cool good for beginners

This CD received 1 star and actually I would have given it no stars! Not for the CD itseld but the company that uis selling it! I purchased this CD for Christmas for my son. I checked with Amazon and I believe they said their return policy was anything purchased after Nov 7th could be returned up until Jan 31st.My son didn't want this CD and I returned it a week after Christmas. The CD cost $59 and this company charged me $29.50 RESTOCKING FEE! This is outrageous! Thank goodness that Amazon refunded the money! Buyer beware of this company!!!

Just like what the title says, it's not a flash game to where you can draw your creations in and animate them to life.This program is more based on 8-bit graphics then anything else. If you like the kind of stuff that's in the range of PAC-MAN or Tetris style then look no further. But if you want to actually draw and animate your characters to life to make a game, then you'll have to dump allot more time into searching for Adobe Flash software and ALLOT more money into the price, and I keep reading into these reviews that people actually take classes on this kind of stuff. I mean, hell I have a passion for this, but I don't want to go to collage for 5 years for it. I mean hell, what's next, an collage campuses named after Adobe? $*&t I just want to buy a software program, install the damn thing, then use it, is that to much to ask? I just want to have some fun on making some flash games and show them off, but what the people are doing here, sucks all the fun out of it and make it to where it's a job, not an art.As for this program, they don't give you much to work with, for example; Once you go threw the tutorial show, and buy the guide (separately) it'll tell you on how to make your own player. Well lets start on that shall we? In order to make your own player, they give you a little diamond shape image that's no bigger then a few pixels. Yeah that's how it starts. So you have to erase the entire image then start from scratch. Imagine that you have to go through that every time that you have to make something or someone to complete a game, a game that just a few pixels tall. Now you can make the players and all allot bigger, but there's no info on where the average is, and you have to move the screen with the mouse cause it will not match to what you set the picture to. So now imagine that not only that you have to use that diamond pixel, erase it, expand the size of it, and move it with your mouse because it won't match the size of the image that you set it to, every time you go to make a character. That my friends, is an ordeal to the point of saying, "Ahh #9$% it, I'm board."

I had to get this for a Virtual Games class in college so I explored medium-level activities of the software. If you have programming background and understand logic well, you shoudl have a leg up in making some impressive introductory games. If you check out the independent games in XBOX Live Arcade, you will see what types of things you can expect to build, with some practice of course. I found the ease in which you could build and interact with the contect very good and would highly recommend it for someone looking to get a first look at what game building would be like as a profession. Once you can master this, you are well on your way to understanding game development so give it a try if any of this sounds good to you.OK, I said it was a little quirky. To really get into detail with some complex movements and interactions, you will find that it doesn't always give you the precision you may want and thus you have to take it with a grain of salt. Also, there is not a ton of help content so you will need to review the tutorials others have provided on the site to really ramp up your skills.

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I found that Gamesfactory was the perfect program for anybody aspiring to custom-make a game. Learning and using the software was easy because of the tutorials included and the ease-of-use setup.

this is a childish game . takes several hours to tediously design a game . the demo game can be created in minutes . you must use pre-designed , images , that are limited in design .if you are familiar with c , or java you dont need this . it is worth the money to get small children interesed in game design . i do not recomend this product at this price because it is so limited in game abilities for un-educated persons .

My son is 10 and enjoys building his own games. It is a little more challenging than the games he puts together from the internet but that is a good things as it stretches his mind. I am happy with the purchase.