2D Game Development
2D game development is getting re-imagined in a next generation editing application that brings games and development to everyone.
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The Build a Game application is your spot for building, playing, sharing and selling your creations. It’s intuitive design allows you to create games with ease and bring your imagination to life.
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With a robust editor, cloud storage, a market center and thousands of properties waiting for you, Build a Game is ready, are you?
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Browse for the latest games to play and content for building in the Market Center.
Features
Features
Discover the tools and options that make this a perfect environment for game development.
Benefits
Benefits
Check out the cost and time savings achievable by developing with Build a Game.
Work Flow
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Build a Game’s powerful and intuitive toolset provides a comprehensive solution for game development. The tools, options, editing environment and support for major devices enable designers to create, test and iterate on their designs where they want and when they want.
Tools
Tile Properties
Tiles make up everything in a game from characters and GUI to sounds and special effects. Each Tile comes with 3 layers of exposed properties for various depths of control and editing. With several thousand properties available the ability to make unique Tiles for your game is possible!
Events and Triggers
Action! Getting your characters and world to interact is just one click away. Using the innovative tile event option, you’ll be able to interact with every property a tile has. Choose your reason why something happens and then make it happen using the powerful events and trigger options to get things connected.
Tools
Edit your game with a whole suite of game ready tools and editor options. Select, paint, move, scale, rotate, group, layers, snapping, copy, paste, filters and the list goes on and on because when it comes to tools, you can never have to many! Our editing environment is ready for you to start pushing our buttons.
Multiplatform
Development is everywhere you want to be. Whether on your desktop, (In development: mobile and console) Build a Game is ready for you.
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Multi-platform support is what separates Build a Game’s editing environment from everyone else. Full support for Windows, Mac, Linux makes Build a Game an easy choice.
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Open up the editing environment across major platforms and enjoy the freedom to develop where you want and when you want.
Peripherals
Get ready for a new way to create your games! Build a Game supports multiple peripherals for creating and playing games. Check out what we support and give them a try, you could even try them all at the same time if you had an extra couple of hands!
From the moment you begin your game automatically supports game controllers, mouse, keyboard and touch! The Build a Game environment detects what is available and sets it up for you to use. Each with special shortcut workflows you’ll find choosing how you create your next game has never been more fun.
Play
New games and new designers using a next generation software development environment are bringing their unique expressions to the Build a Game Universe! Get ready to try out everything from epic and trendy to dramatic and silly. With our innovative tools, designers are enabled to bring a broad range of ideas and experimentation to an interactive canvas like never before.
Games
Games are filling the Market Center shelves and it’s time for us to start filling our collections.
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Explore all the games out there. Be sure to read the reviews and chat with the designers to find your next digital adventure!
Development
Participate as a tester during the development phase. Get in early and help the developers to create the best games possible by playing and providing feedback.
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Testers may even earn Silver coins by getting involved and sharing opinions to development teams.
Cloud Service
Safely store your games and game data with our cloud service.
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With the cloud you can access all of your games from multiple platforms and enjoy the freedom to play!
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Get it once and play it everywhere!
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Come and get it!
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The latest Games and Tiles are waiting for you in the Market Center!
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Find great games and tiles using our intelligent search feature and stumble on items that you might not have even thought about. Time to discover what’s in the Market Center!
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Market Center games and tiles are filling up the shelves with excitement. The anticipation for new tiles and games is happening all the time with artists and designers from around the world bringing their vision to your device.
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So, find, follow and support our new generation of designers as they create, share and sell.
The latest Games and Tiles are waiting for you in the Market Center!
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Find great games and tiles using our intelligent search feature and stumble on items that you might not have even thought about. Time to discover what’s in the Market Center!
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Market Center games and tiles are filling up the shelves with excitement. The anticipation for new tiles and games is happening all the time with artists and designers from around the world bringing their vision to your device.
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So, find, follow and support our new generation of designers as they create, share and sell.
Features
Peek under the hood and see what features Build a Game offers. With our focus on delivering a solid first version that streamlines development and enables a whole new market to game development, it creates an impressive list, and these are just for starters!
Intuitive UI
Carefully crafting a UI that delivers standard conventions mixed with time saving tools and responsiveness best describes our goal for the UI.
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Making it fun to explore the tools and worry-free, makes this a great environment for game development.
Realtime Preview
Play-Time! At the push of a button your canvas becomes the game and you immediately begin testing your designs.
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The real-time previewer is a powerful tool that leverages our need for immediate feedback while iterating through designs.
Full Screen
Take charge of your development with a host of shortcuts, finger gestures and tricks that will let you look like a pro in full screen mode. Take advantage of the full screen mode with your touch device to maximize your space and further enjoy the experience!
Particles
Ka-Boom! Empower your particle effects with Build a Game’s custom particle system.
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Generate and edit dynamic effects for your creations in real-time with on-the-fly changes.
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Enjoy creating explosions, fires, smoke, clouds and even buckets of fairy dust.
Animation
Time to animate! Bring your tiles to life with an unlimited frame count and hundreds of optional states.
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Full 8 degree support with degree transitions make your animations come to life without a pop.
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Design your animations as creatively as you want and then set them loose as tiles in your games.
Audio
Control audio like never before! The unique audio system allows you to selectively assign audio, falloff and much more on a per tile basis giving you complete control of what the user hears and where!
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Every action that tiles have comes with audio, so start making some noise!
Lighting
Dynamic 2D lighting brings your environments to life. Cast real-time shadows that could be used to hide treasures or enemies waiting to surprise the hero.
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Just a flip of the switch brings light in to your levels, adding a new dimension to the world.
Physics
Let’s get things rolling! Turn any object in to a physics tile with one click. Tweak the many properties available to make it heavy, bouncy, and just the way you want it for your game.
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Our fully integrated physics engine allows you to innovate and experiment using physics objects in your next game!
AI
Create intelligent actions and behaviors from a long list of basic and established ai properties.
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Easily create thought filled enemies and bosses that react and interact with the game.
GUI
Enjoy making your next interface with a robust and dynamic GUI system.
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Design in real-time where and how your interface will look and respond for the best user experience. And remember the GUI is a tile, so you can interact with it in your game like never before!
Fonts
Establish your theme with custom fonts and animations.
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Letters and numbers are just the beginning of our font options. Quickly edit and adjust a long list of font options as well as choose and edit from more than 40 font animations to bring your message in and make it stand out!
Game World Level
It’s about the game! Build a Game allows you to craft complete games, with as many worlds and levels as you want.
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Simply add worlds and levels to your game and edit them to add the fun. With the power to craft the game, worlds and levels, you can tell the whole story!
Performance
Ready, set, go! How your product performs for the user and on their device is so important that we developed and integrated a performance system manager. This system handles delivering reliable performance, smooth framerates, and a superb player experience.
Auto Optimizations
Auto-magically have your projects optimized for peek performance on every device.
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Our auto optimization system makes sure that across all target platforms your products and content are prepared and highly optimized for delivery and use. Submit it and we handle the rest!
Workflow and Pipeline
Rapidly construct your levels in an intuitive, robust editing environment with Build a Game. Import custom content in to the editor with a streamlined process using Tile Builder.
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With Build a Game and Tile Builder, you Build, Test, and Iterate towards your completed project.
Publishing
One click and instantly publish your project across every supported platform and make your games and content available in the Market Center.
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We’ve streamlined publishing so you can spend your time on the game and not everything else. That’s game development re-imagined!
Multi-platform
Be everywhere your customers are and enjoy development on your favorite devices.
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Game development is not about being in one spot. Take your development with you. Be creative and develop when inspiration comes, because with Build a Game, we are everywhere you are.
Tiles
Tiles make up everything in a game from characters and GUI to sounds and special effects.
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With three layers of exposed properties for various depths of control, you’ll never hit a roadblock with your ideas. Thousands of properties available with just a click.
Benefits
Maximize productivity and reduce your time and costs by focusing on game development. Build a Game supports and innovates with 2d game development technologies that will let you lead the way as a game developer.
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Accelerate development with the Market Center. Whether rapidly prototyping an idea or finding a unique style for your project, the Market Center has the assets you need to boost your development cycle and reduce the time and cost for your project.
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Building community support is vital to your products and Build a Game equips you with the tools to test your products among select users before you launch. Ensuring that your product and customers are going to enjoy the experience improves the quality and strengthens the relationships for success.
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Earn money for your time and efforts by selling your Tiles and Games. Time for your great ideas to start making money, using Build a Game and Tile Builder!
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Download Build a Game now so you can see how it will change your development process and improve your bottom line.
Workflow
An experience driven design which streamlines the creative development process allows artists and designers to effectively implement their ideas and content with ease.
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Accelerate development with the Market Center. Whether rapidly prototyping an idea or finding a unique style for your project, the Market Center has assets to boost your development cycle and reduce the time and cost for your project.
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Iterating on your designs and instantly testing them empowers designers to refine and polish every second of game play. Use instant publishing to release development builds to your players and involve them on the development. What ever you choose the options are there to improve designs and make the best experience possible!
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Download Build a Game now and experience game development re-imagined!
