Will Kalif

How to make a video game with FPS Creator



Posted: Friday, December 28, 2007

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Kalif Publishing

FPS Creator is a powerful software program that makes video game making extremely easy. It is all drag and drop and you don't need to know any programming at all. It also has a 30-day free trial period, which allows you to try it before you decide to buy it.

FPS Creator makes video games in the first person shooter style and it is quite possibly the easiest software development tool you can use. Within five minutes of starting up the program you can have a small video game ready to be played. To do this you need to place three different types of items in the game. The first type is a room, the second type is an entity, and the third type is a player start. This article explains these three different types of entities and how you can quickly place into your game.

When you start up the program you see a desktop workspace with a grid. This area is where you build your world. On the left of this workspace is the library. Click on the add prefabrication icon then select a library item such as the control room large or control room small. Then move your cursor to somewhere on the workspace grid and left click. This places the control room right into the game. This control room is a prefabricated room that is ready to go and it is complete and in place. But one room is rather boring so let's place a second room. Move your cursor and place another room right along side the first one. Make sure the walls of the rooms are right up against each other. The doorway between the two rooms is automatically calculated and placed so you don't have to worry about it. You can continue this process and place many different types of rooms right into the game.

Now you place items such as furniture or weapon and ammunition right into the game with the same drag and drop technique. These items are called entities. In the library along the left, click on the entities tab then click on the new entity option. This brings up a large selection of entities that you can drop right into the game. Select an entity such as the uzi then place it into one of your rooms with a single left click. Continue this process and place other entities into the game. Have some fun with it and place as many different entities as you want.

To complete your game all you have to do is place a player start (which is you) somewhere in the game. To do this you press the markers tab then select the Player Start icon. Now place this in one of the rooms you created. You have completed your first game now all you have to do is run it and play it.

To run the game you simply press the test level button along the top menu. The program will compile and run your game. You can now play it and interact with all the various items by moving from room to room and pressing enter to open doors or pick up items.

FPS Creator makes it astonishingly simple to create your own video game and the key to making a game, and the reason why it is so easy, is the large collection of prefabricated items that come built right into the software. There are hundreds of items that you simply click and drag right into the game. And the makers of the software have quite a large selection of extras in many different themes that can make your game really unique. If you want to dabble in making your own video games but you don't want to learn how to program this is an excellent software tool for you to try and learn with.

For more articles, information, product reviews, and tutorials on the exciting world of making video games for free check out the author's website at: make-video-games.com

 

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