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Game Builder Lite
Version 3.0
Game - Designer
DOS
MVP Software, USA
Shareware 52,95 $
Welcome to Game Builder Lite, the program that will help you create full color,
action graphic games -- without programming. Game Builder Lite can be used to
create a large variety of adventure, educational, historical, and fun games.
Game Builder Lite provides you with a set of easy to use tools for making
simple or complex games. Game Builder Lite provides people who can't or don't
want to program games with a way to turn their great game ideas into reality.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
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You can create complete graphic adventure games with Game Builder Lite. The
games you create are limited only by your imagination. It does take a little
planning to produce a top flight game. But you can also experiment and
produce a game by trial and error. Here is a basic outline of how to produce
a game with Game Builder Lite.
Game Builder Lite makes games using a grid of screens. You decide how many
background screens there are in your game. For example, the default is a 9x9
grid, which will result in an 81 screen game. You can also use Game Builder
Lite to place animations, actions, words, and so forth for each grid location.
Of course the more screens and actions that you have the larger the disk space
required to store the game data.
1. Plan an overall theme and plot for your game. Example: A space game, a
wild west game, a medieval game, an educational game, and so forth.
Produce an outline of what you want the game to do.
2. Use TurboPaint to create background screens in whatever graphic mode your
computer will support. You can also use TurboPaint to produce the opening
and closing screens. Other paint programs, such as MVP Paint, that produce
compatible .PCX graphic files can be used as well. You should also create
Winning and Losing screens that display at the end of the game.
3. Use TurboPaint to create characters, objects and animations for your game.
4. Use Game Builder Lite's SCREEN GRID editor to tell your program which
screens to display in each grid position.
5. Use Game Builder Lite's built in SCRIPT editor to produce allowable "word
scripts" from your game characters and the responses that these scripts
produce. This must be done for every screen in your game.
6. Use the special ACTION script editor to produce responses to your game's
main character. Examples: Pick up or use an item, gain points, or lose the
game.
7. Use the built in sound editor to produce music and sound for selected
areas of your game.
8. Test your game for playability and bugs.
Making simple games with Game Builder Lite is very easy. Making complex games
will take a little more time and experimentation.