The Games Factory : Unity of the 90s?
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- Back in the late 90s Europress (now known as ClickTeam) followed up the hugely popular Klik and Play with "The Games Factory".
A software package that allowed users to create games with out the need to know how to program, create artwork or even make audio.
With large libraries and a great number of tutorials it made it fun and easier to make games.
You can still get it from here: www.clickteam.com/download-ce...
The Game made in this episode "BreakDown" can be gotten here: www.dropbox.com/s/4bm566kkp34...
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I got this as a birthday present from my mom in the 90s. Me and my best friends spent so much time making games in this (point and click adventures, platformers and breakout games). We even sold some of our games on floppies at our school. And I made some school presentations in this software, making artwork and stories and the teachers ended up saving the presentation and using it in class. Fun times. It was such a good tool. Me and my friend had really big dreams lol, one time we went around with a handheld camera and took photos of the world, opening doors etc, photographing keys on the ground, stuff like that. Our idea was to somehow scan the photos and make a point and click game with realistic graphics. That one never happened because we never scanned the photos. Lol. Thanks for making this great presentation of The Games Factory!
Still have my big box at home, complete with the spiral bound manual. Got it from my mom in the 90's, been working as a game developer for the past 18 years now, so I view it as a part of me ending up in this profession.
The Games Factory is just an updated version of Klik-N-Play. I love it.
llllloooooooved games factory so much. Still have my old unfinished games on a hard drive. Such a great piece of software back in the day.
It was lots of fun to use back then.
Brilliant vid - thank you. That 'morph' tool is excellent!
Great to see that HUGE Games Factory box again. It certainly stood out on the shelf in Game and Electronic Boutique
I wish I still had that huge box, it did look so good at the shops which is why I couldn't say no to it 😁
@@GouldFishOnGames I remember it being quite pricey too when it first came out. I wish I'd kept mine, I have the manual and disks still.
This was a proper trip down memory lane! I had this as a kid in the 1990s but definitely felt out of my depth with lots of it - watching this video I saw things I didn't even realise this did back in the day.
Glad you enjoyed it, back in the day I had that really big box with the spiral manual and I must have read that thing so many times. Although I will say it took a bit of work to remember how to do everything for the video 😂
Can't describe you my excitement when I discovered this software in 2000. Great memories! And while it's designed for non-programmers, it sure damn helps you become one and I'm just one example for that. I introduced it to some of my buddies back in the day and two of them are now in the game development business.
Absolutely love Klik and Play and The Games Factory. I own a copy of the latest Fusion 2.5 but haven't really done much with it as yet -- I really should get back to playing with it sometime, as I used to have so much fun with this as a kid!
Only ever finished one game, but it was a banger. "Pie Eater's Destiny", it was called, and it featured our head of sixth form as the final boss. He absolutely loved it.
Not only did I use it back in the day, but I still use the newest version, Clickteam Fusion 2.5, today. It's still a pretty good engine if you want to do a 2D game and the fundamentals set up way back in 1996 are still present in the modern version you can get on Steam these days.
How much is it?
@@buyerenogurlfwendo2106 It's $100 USD, but it is WORTH IT! Just search up Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Standard.
I got clickteam for christmas it's good
My friend introduced me to this and I had big plans for making my own fighting game. It got a bit off the ground, with some animations and an opponent that could do a few things based on RNG. Very exciting and great program!
It was lots of fun quickly making stuff with it.
this program is from the 90s and it is still better than scratch
Not The Games Factory but Multimedia Fusion 2 by Clickteam was my start into game design, I still use their products to this day! I have to wonder though why they removed the morphing feature, it looks so awesome! I had no idea The Games Factory could do something like that, that was an advanced / normally expensive effect for 90's technology.
I only recently found out they removed it in the later releases, I wonder if they had licensed the tech and couldn't afford it after that.
Amazing!
If it weren't for TGF, I wouldn't be in software development today. I still have some of my early games and prototypes somewhere, your excellent video gives me the urge to go find some lost treasures! Thank you so much!
Addendum : I made most if not ALL of my games with the demo version of TGF, and the limitations were really a pain. I remember parenting clickable icons (into which I pasted my sprites) to entities, because the demo version didn't allow making new entities with custom graphics. I have searched so many times, in so many stores, for a boxed version back in the day, to no avail.
Great to hear you enjoyed the video and I didn't even know there was a demo version.
I remember seeing it shown off on a Saturday morning kids/games show and then spotting it in a game shop a few weeks later.
your work arounds to the limitations sounds very creative.
Slopes sent me here with just four words "reminiscent of early LGR". I'm glad he did, liking the work fella.
Thanks for the kind words, and say thanks to mr slopes for me.
@@GouldFishOnGames he gave you a massive shout out on his upload about half an hour ago, 10 Tubers With Under 5000 subs, hopefully more will make their way over here as I did.
He is a real gent and does so much for the smaller youtubers, its amazing.
@@GouldFishOnGames he's a proper good egg, I think he also pointed me in the direction of Kim Justice years ago, forever grateful for that particular heads up.
@@Paddyboro yeah I've found a few channels due to his great work
Wow, this really takes me back! I got a TGF license for christmas long ago. I'm equal parts curious and reluctant to look through old CD backups for any old games I made. Some things might be better left to the far confines of the memory banks. Thanks for the nostalgia trip, though! 😄
Happy you enjoyed it, I know It can be hard to check out those older projects.
I thought long and hard over if I should show off any of my old projects.
It can be fun so see how things have improved over the years but can be hard to see something that you thought was great but turns out wasn't.
@@GouldFishOnGames TGF Also Made Sonic Robo Blast 1 Before Sonic Team Junior Made The Second One
I played woith this loads when i was a kid. made soo many games but they are forever lost to hard drive failure, unless i backed some up on hidden floppys in my dads loft. i realy liked the way it thought u through the quizes and the play throgh mode. where it pases whenever an event or collision happend and asked u what u wanted it to do when this happend, i found it super quick to get something running. was also soo impressed that i managed to get so much together without access to the internet, those tutorials and sample games had all the info we needed.
Yeah, those tutorials, quizzes and sample games were great for teaching you the basics of how to get going and even some of the more complex stuff. It was so much fun to learn and mess around with.
Funny, the Games Factory has visual scripting ahead of its time.
I see that HEROES 3 game box in the background! Nostalgic from the best game ever made.
Wow the nostalgia! I remember finding the actual development part of TGF so arcane and esoteric, but even just the provided demos were hours of fun
man i loved this software so much
This is where the best Sonic fan game got to start the game factory srb2 the game factory
This is fantastic - I really wish I'd encountered this as a kid!
Paperweight
Same here! If I knew about this software when I was little, I could have been making games with it for years!
Memories..
Hey man, I really appreciate this video. I took a class in 6th grade using this exact software and it kickstarted my fascination with computer programming. This was such a blast from from the past and it was so nice seeing you click through all the features. It reminded me of the awe I felt when, with just a few clicks, I could make the computer do exactly what I wanted. 15 years later, I'm still fascinated with computers! :)
It was such a great bit of software, and I'm really happy you enjoyed seeing it again.
I had a lot of fun going back to it as I messed around with it in 98/99.
I grew up with Klik n' Play (The Windows 98 re-release by DK Multimedia) and I got good hours of making games on it than any other game making program I used. Sadly, making video games is not really my hidden skill. I'm now more accustom to writing music in Fruity Loops. I guess people change over time since I used to draw a lot as a kid, but not so much anymore.
I used Click & Play back in the day I picked up a copy of the big box version today of TGF for about 1 USD 😎 ❤
Oh nice! and that is a good price for the boxed version!
I didn't hear any problem with the audio. Good fun video and an interesting product. A BIG step up from BASIC!
Thanks for saying so, I might be my own worst critic, well I guess untill I get trolls turning up ;)
Very cool stuff! I never knew about this ! I would have loved it, back in the day!
I think I learnt about it from the font of all 90s information, the Saturday morning kids TV shows.
Was lucky enough to spot it a few weeks later in game shop and just knew I had to buy it.
I loved klik&play... Pie Devil = best videogame character ever
The best way for me to learn was to create clones of arcade classics such as Pacman, Defender, Robotron etc. Many hours of development! The extensions were very useful.
Yeah I think that was very common, not just with The Games Factory but most languages and tools.
Its a great way to just learn how to do the logic as you don't have to worry about the game design.
@@GouldFishOnGames Will upload gameplay of those clones if you are interested. You will not believe the number of active objects that are on screen in Defender as I even managed to create the scanner!
@@computerrefurbishment9748 that's really cool! Sounds far more impressive then what I did with it!
I haven't used a games creator since The Quill and SEUCK. This is very comprehensive!
There is a surprising amount of features and it felt like a real step up from the single genre makers like seuck (which I will have to review at some point).
I remember this one and RPG Maker!
Damn it's old, I was using it near 2004/2005 as a teenager.
Great video!
Thanks, its a fun bit of software.
My dad got me this on my windows xp rig in the early 2000s. I got it after I seen my friend had it. I remember making a smash bros rip off where multiple people could play on 1 keyboard. I was like 10-12 at the time.
that sounds like a lot of fun! it was great for making those quick and silly games
This program was used to make the Waligie Bros games back in 2003.
Still got that huge Games Factory-box(spiral bound manual edit) stowed away somewhere in my apartment. Used to love it back in school, but honestly it was a buggy mess(the bouncing ball at display here, for instance, not caring what direction it came from). Still, I'm keen to install it on one of my old computers for some old time fun, maybe check out if a madman managed to make an epic working game during these 30 odd years?
Thanks for the video.
Yeah it had a few issues, used to switch between the 16 and 32bit versions as they had different bugs.
but its amazing that you still have the spiral bound manual!
Not sure if anyone created anything epic, would be fun to find out.
Ah this brings back happy memories, My brother and I found a demo for this as kids before we had internet or anything and we would spend all our time competing to make better games.
We eventually got the real thing, and then the gamesfactory 2 much later but then my hardrive got a virus and I never backed up my projects.
Awesome homage video about the software that made my childhood dream a reality! imo they should have kept the name The Games Factory for good. I don´t like the Fusion name for this kind of software but oh well.. I got it (since the 90s - today with F2.5+) and love it
I guess they were hoping to get people using it for more then just games.
a bit like Flash I guess.
But the Games Factory name was good.
@@GouldFishOnGames oh yeah it used to support flash, right? but wait, vector flash games? I don´t remember that
Like so many in this comment thread, I grew up using this software and investing so many countless hours into my silly games. I only wish I had saved my creations to something other than 3.5" floppy disks... Most didn't survive :(
AHH man that sucks, you might be able to save the disks depending on the problem.
Cleaning them or the drive can help.
The Virgin Java/Python vs Chad Game Maker vs THAD The Games Factory
Wow, I had no idea about the image drag-drop feature, or the image morphing. That means there's still a lot to learn about this program, which is awesome because I'm making a new game on this platform.
I used TGF1 a lot when I was a kid, never knew about grouping events or even assigning objects to groups!! You can imagine how atrocious my games were, but I had a ton of fun and I'm still creating memories today. I still remember my friend telling me about "Always" and "Set camera to pos. of object". Finally, SCROLLING LEVELS!! Haha. You can expect my games had a lot of scrolling in them after that.
Super video by the way. How do you have so many assets?? The ones on the site are few and far between.
The games I made back in the day were not that great either to be honest, but having fun in creating them was far more important. Its great to hear that some people are still using it to make games as it really was a great program that really made it enjoyable to use.
All those assets came on the CD edition, I guess the downloadable version on the site didn't come with them all.
I sure there must be a copy of it uploaded to the internet archive.
@@GouldFishOnGames Definitely having fun making them was more important. You summed it up very well, "It's the only factory I'd like to work in!"
It's still a useful tool in my eyes, even as an art design program. I'm more into using sprites for my games, so I've found that easily rearranging sprites to make concepts has been way faster and more efficient than learning a modern tool like GIMP (in my opinion). It has a grid system to lock sprites in place, semi-transparency option for sprites, animating, and other easy-assembling tools that are all very helpful and quick when conceptualizing something. Sure there are limitations, but there are so many other advantages.
One disadvantage is there is no palette system. I'd really love a palette-swapping tool, or another easy way to view palettes on an image. I think that might come with more modern Clickteam products... But you have to pay for those.
@@YakibombROMhacking Yep, all those reasons and more are why its a great tool to keep using, it really is easy to get going with.
Working with modern tools for sprites can be a real pain, I still keep paint shop pro 7 and 9 on my development machines for when I do artwork for the mega drive. I've also found the newer tool grafx2 to be good if a little chunky in places.
Omg... gfact32. All those idiot animations and mini games we did... like 9-12yrs old. Epic. We preserved the .rar pack of those games for so long, but then it suddenly got lost.
Amaziiing!
I never saw that back in the day, surprisingly good by the looks of it.
The logic systems could be a little limiting, and it could get a little crash happy but it was quite amazing for what you could pull off if you put the time in.
@@GouldFishOnGames I managed to do a very wonky wolf3d clone with klik&play back in the days, I did a minimap that was in reality running most of the logic like player position and what you could see using collision events, it was a bit mental... Then I started using Div Studio 2 that was a lot more powerful and even had a doom style level editor built in!
@@BADC0FFEE wow, that's amazing. I could start to think how to start something like that!
Best game on the Amiga.
I really liked this program, I still regard it better than Game Maker
Bought this on eBay the other day. Hoping I can get it to run on my rig
Not sure how well it runs on modern systems, I mostly used it on the retro machine.
there is a 16 and 32bit version, so make sure to use the 32bit one. the installer might not work.
so you could just copy the contents of the cd to the drive instead.
i still have my copy. in the drawer right next to me in fact!
Awesome! its a cool thing to still have around!
Ah, I remember this. Good memories. I remember a made a really good animation of a vomiting Barney the dinosaur.
Haha awesome!
Barney Vomit: The Game
So basically Clickteam Fusion But Older
Correct. Same devs and project. TGF evolved into the more "professional" Multimedia Fusion version 1 and 2, which costed more, and now the latest is called Clickteam Fusion.
So technically speaking I could with this recreate the ZX Spectrum game The A-Team? 🤣🤣
I didn't own this but I did own Cartoon Maker. As with all these tools the main issue is you can only create from what they give you so it all feels limiting after a few games.
Its always hard to make these things so they are simple but also have enough depth to make anything.
At the time I think it hit a nice middle ground, we tried to do a few things that pushed it to the limit and had issues.
but it was fun trying to find those limits.
@@GouldFishOnGames I suppose the last thing someone wants is to end up making the same three times in a row or a different game but with the same graphics.
Welp only just released how bad the audio mixing is, sorry.
Say GouldFish, Which tutorial Video's Where I can find it Because Nobody has even making of The Game Factory Tutorial all The years.
I assume there must be some more indepth videos out there but I've never gone looking.
As I learned how to use it from the manual and the provided tutorials.
thee only games i created
I still usung it :D
@reets Vasw yep
This work in Windows 10 or 7 ?
I've not tried it on either, so I can't say.
The Games Factory 1.06 and Multimedia Fusion Express do work in Windows 7, 8 and 10 (maybe even 11, but haven't tried yet). You may need to find a serial key if you don't have one. TG1 itself works fine. The Help files uses a deprecated format Windows no longer supports (but you can find online tools to convert them to usable formats). The Examples menu and the example games rely on 16-bit executables (for backwards compatibility with the 16-bit edition), but that can easily be fixed by opening their GAM files and saving them as standalone (32-bit) executables again.
Stop this is old version multimedia fusion? (clickteam fusion)
Yeah this was the middle product between "Klik & Play" and Multimedia Fusion.
Yo uso Multimedia Fusion Developer 2🤨
Sorta, or to think of it another way this that Multimedia Fusion was born out of the Games Factory when they extended it so it could do so much more.