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Softpedia Editor's Review for The Games Factory 2
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This program is the follow up to the hugely successful Games Factory.
Written by Elena Opris on December 12th, 2011
The Games Factory is a software that allows you to create your own games and applications.
The user interface is standard and divided into the menu bar, icon, workspace, properties, library and layers toolbars, the editor bar, editor windows and status bar.
The Storyboard editor is the place where you can edit frames of your application (e.g. resize them, change their order), while the Picture editor lets you create and manage all images and icons found in your game.
In addition, the Animation editor allows you to edit animation of any active objects, but you can also enter events that trigger actions and define the logic of your game in the Events editor.
You can configure properties for the application (e.g. graphics and build mode, compression level and sounds, run options), frame (e.g. size, virtual width and height, background color, palette, transitions) and objects.
Furthermore, you can assign hotkeys to all major commands in The Games Factory, customize the interface for the workspace, Storyboard, Frame, Event, Action and Expression editor.
The Games Factory is not very easy to understand, so novice users would have a difficult time learning how to get around it. The help file is pretty well drawn, but it could definitely use some improvements (especially when it comes to its tutorials), as well as the interface.
Unfortunately, the trial mode has its limitations (as you can view in the product description below), so we cannot accurately evaluate The Games Factory. All in all, the program uses a low amount of system resources, and we have not encountered any problems during our tests.
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The Games Factory 2 description
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Here are some key features of "The Games Factory 2":
The application:
· applications are what The Games Factory 2 creates. They are files saved on the disk, with a ".MFA" extension. applications contain several frames.
The frames:
· Frames correspond to the different screens of your application. They can be levels of a game, chapters in a multimedia presentation, etc.
· Let's take a simple game as an example : the first frame would be the title page, the second frame would be the game itself, and the third frame would be the high score table.
· Frames contain objects, and events.
The objects:
· Objects are dropped in a frame : they are the different "actors" of your application. The Games Factory 2 contains a lot of different objects, to suit the different tasks.
· For example, the active object would be used as a character in a game, the string object to display some text, the button object in a dialog box etc. Objects are dropped on the frame in the frame editor.
· Each object contains a number of different properties for a fine control. Each object also has a number of conditions, actions and expressions to control them.
The properties:
· You access the properties in the properties toolbar. Properties consist of different values (texts, options, colors, fonts etc.) that precisely define your object behavior.
· All the objects have properties, the application and the frame also have properties.
The events:
· The logic of your application is defined with events. It is the events that destroy this or that object, create another here or there, perform calculation etc.
· Events are the way to program your application. You enter and edit the events in the event editor .
· An event is made of conditions and actions.
The conditions:
· A condition is a question that can be true or false. For example, "Is key A pressed?" is a condition, and it will be true when your application is running if the user presses the key A.
· An event can contain more than one condition one after the other: they must all be true at the same time for the event to be true. When all the conditions of an event are true, the actions are executed.
The actions:
· An action is a task to perform when the conditions are true. Example of an action : "Add 10 to score of player 1".When this action is encountered, 10 points are added to the score of player 1.
· An event can contain more than one action : in the case, they will be executed one after the other.
Limitations:
· 30 days limitation period.
· This version cannot generate stand-alone applications, screen savers or internet applications and also does not allow users to open the files saved.
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