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[Wanted] Flash boardgame engine / framework
Ampa:
I have designed a 2 player board game (working title "Monkey Dash"). Early play-testing, with a paper and glue prototype, has gone well, with the game getting a great reaction.
I would like to proceed to the next stage... a test on a larger scale. I need to get the prototype out to a wider audience, and would also like to gather statistics about how the game plays.
The best solution seems to be software!
The ideal: A Flash based framework specifically designed for boardgames.
Why Flash? I have done some Flash work before so the learning curve would be smaller.
Why a framework? I'd rather not reinvent the wheel! Surely I don't need to code the board layout code, or simple rules for orthogonal movement of the player's pawn.
Any one know of such a thing? I have searched, but not come up with anything that looks very promising.
Ampa
Deozaan:
I don't know about any Flash board game framework, but there is some software called Zillions of Games that is a framework for boardgames and supposedly easy to customize for your own rules. It might be worth a try.
tinjaw:
Ampa,
Do you need/want this to be web-based, or can it be a stand-alone application? If the latter, then I recommend that you try out Game Maker 7 (now owned by YoYo Games). It is very easy to use and the basic version is free. I suspect you can build your whole game with the free version to a prototype stage yourself. If you want some help, I highly suggest <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=ISBN-10%3A%201590596153&tag=chaim-20&index=na-books-us&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">The Game Maker's Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=chaim-20&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />. I am half-way through it and think the book is excellent.
If the game is well received, let me know. I have plenty of contacts in the casual table game business and the computer casual game business.
tinjaw:
Zillions of Games looks really cool. Thanks for mentioning it Deozaan. I've already downloaded the demo.
Deozaan:
Zillions of Games looks really cool. Thanks for mentioning it Deozaan. I've already downloaded the demo.
-tinjaw (November 23, 2007, 03:59 PM)
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Sure thing. Let me know how it is. I owned a copy of it years ago but lost it somewhere before I even got to use it. Oops. :-[
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