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[ExpressGameMaker]

Hello everyone, we are pleased to announce Express Game Maker (EGM)!


Express Game Maker is a 2D game making software that requires no programming or artistic knowledge to use. Make games for Windows, Xbox Live, and Silverlight.


What makes Express Game Maker different from the rest?

Intuitive user-interface… powerful C# engine… ease of use… loads of features… and multi-platform deployment.

EGM is designed from the ground up to be user friendly as well as powerful. Keeping in mind both beginner and advanced users, EGM has features to cater for all.

Beginner game developers will be able to take advantage of:

• Project templates that come with pre-setup data to quickly get them started.
• Resource packages that provide graphics, font and audio they can use in their games.
• The release version of EGM will also come with a built-in tutorial system to guide you through creating your first game.

Advanced users will be able to make their own project templates and take full advantage of:

• The custom databases.
• The powerful event editor.
• Multi-Variable System.
• The particle system.

Programmers can enhance their games by adding their own code to the fully open source C# engine written on top of XNA and even share the code with others.
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ExpressGameMaker.com/Features
More features will be revealed every three days (some sooner), so check back soon.

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ExpressGameMaker.com – Our main website
facebook.com/ExpressGameMaker - EGM on Facebook
twitter.com/EGMaker - Follow us on Twitter

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Place one or more of these in your signature and spread EGM! (Link back to this thread or our website) :D
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The Release Candidate’s Release Date is planned to be sometime in February or March 2010.
More info will come to follow, so check the website frequently.
expressgamemaker.com/BetaPortal.aspx

[Pallav Nawani]

Looks pretty neat! What is the rendering backend? Are you using directx/direct3d for that?

[ExpressGameMaker]

We are using XNA so it would be Directx/Direct3d.

[paul_nicholls]

That looks great!

BTW, The screenshot links didn't work for me...

It appears that your links are in this format:

https://expressgamemaker.com/Screenshots/#ParticlesEditor

where they should look like this to work (tested):

http://www.expressgamemaker.com/Screenshots/#ParticlesEditor

cheers,
Paul

[ExpressGameMaker]

Thanks :)
Unfortunately it seems that I can't edit my first post any longer.

ps. the links work for Firefox.

[paul_nicholls]

ExpressGameMaker said:

Thanks :)
Unfortunately it seems that I can't edit my first post any longer.

ps. the links work for Firefox.

Strange! They work for me now too, and I was using firefox before too :)

cheers,
Paul

[ExpressGameMaker]

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This week on EGM we’ll update you on EGM progress and talk about the first EGM resource pack. The website development is on hold for now as version 2 of the website is being planned by the webmaster which will be a total remake of the whole website with many exciting features!

Read the rest here:
http://www.expressga...March-2010.aspx

[ExpressGameMaker]

Hello everyone,

This week on EGM we will release the first video on EGM and tell you about our progress.
You can watch the video on our youtube page http://www.youtube.c...xpressGameMaker.

Don't forget to rate the video! :)



This video is for those who are already familiar with EGM or any other game maker and game development. Our next video will be for those who are unfamiliar with it :).


So far, the development on EGM is going smooth and we have already started the first phase of the private beta testing.

The battle system and the menu maker are also almost complete. We’ve tweaked the UI and added some new UI elements to make EGM easier to use some of which can be seen in the video.

We have only a few more features to complete and EGM will be ready for the second phase of testing.

Remember to tell others about us!
Express Game Maker Team, http://www.expressgamemaker.com

[ExpressGameMaker]

Hi,

It has been a long time since we last updated this post, and we wish to share some of our progress updates.

First of all, this software is now in Public Beta.

This means that you can all go to the website http://www.expressga...com/BetaSignup/ and register for a beta copy of the application.

We have finalised a lot of the features as well as added many more, and we have released periodic updates in our forums (it is probably best to see them there).

As game developers we want to appeal to you as well, and as such we have added a built in code editor to the application.
This means that you will able to edit the open source C# engine built on the XNA framework from within the application to easily enhance your games.

We hope to see you on the forums,
The Express Game Maker Team