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> <channel><title>Sparxengine</title> <atom:link href="http://sparxengine.net/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://sparxengine.net</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:16:04 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Strategy Defense 3</title><link>http://sparxengine.net/strategy-defense-3.htm</link> <comments>http://sparxengine.net/strategy-defense-3.htm#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:16:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>mahesh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Game]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sparxengine.net/?p=139</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tower defense games are my weakness and I can&#8217;t stop myself once I start playing these games. I found strategy defense 3 game from donationcoder forum and decided to download it. There were some positive reviews about this game to which I totally agree. This game forces user to pay attention to enemy attacks rather [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tower defense games are my weakness and I can&#8217;t stop myself once I start playing these games. I found strategy defense 3 game from donationcoder forum and decided to download it. There were some positive reviews about this game to which I totally agree. This game forces user to pay attention to enemy attacks rather than score. <span
id="more-139"></span>This is the point where this game differs from other tower defense games. You&#8217;ll be able to jump from one level to another in very short time. You&#8217;ll not keep track of score because it&#8217;s not important as this game forces you to end the enemy tower instead of gaining points.</p><p>Game starts with basic setup of soldiers and tower weapons to attack on enemies. Each level gives you unique towers and weapons that helps you kill the soldiers and tanks or ships in that specific level. You&#8217;ll find that you get more points to buy the weapons and soldiers. You&#8217;ll hardly have any issues with running out of points, unless of-course you&#8217;ll use too much weapons and soldiers.</p><p>As you move towards more advanced weapons like ships, helicopter, planes and bombs, you&#8217;ll find it easy to destroy enemy soldiers and their weapons. You may not like the music and the graphics but the concept is still good. I think if the game developers make it more challenging and graphically attractive, this game has chance to compete with some other good games in the market.</p><p><strong>Likes</strong></p><ul><li>I like the speed of the game. It changes very quickly without you realizing anything about it.</li><li>Maps are cool, each map has it&#8217;s own level and respective speed.</li><li>Some weapons and soldiers are cute.</li><li>It&#8217;s free. <img
src='http://sparxengine.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /></li></ul><p><strong>Dislikes</strong></p><ul><li>Less challenging. There needs to be a threat that should be surprising like other TD games.</li><li>AI is slow even for aggressive mode.</li><li>It&#8217;s not much polished game.</li></ul> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://sparxengine.net/strategy-defense-3.htm/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Zeus : Master of Olympus Cheats, Tricks and Tips</title><link>http://sparxengine.net/zeus-master-of-olympus-cheats-tricks-and-tips.htm</link> <comments>http://sparxengine.net/zeus-master-of-olympus-cheats-tricks-and-tips.htm#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 20:35:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>mahesh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Games]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sparxengine.net/?p=132</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mythology game zeus &#8211; master of olympus is one interesting game to play. If you&#8217;re tired of slow speed of this game then it is better to use cheats to speed it up. The cheats mentioned in this page are working on PC version of this game. Feel free to comment if you wish to [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mythology game zeus &#8211; master of olympus is one interesting game to play. If you&#8217;re tired of slow speed of this game then it is better to use cheats to speed it up. The cheats mentioned in this page are working on PC version of this game. Feel free to comment if you wish to share more or have any other suggestions. I&#8217;ll update this post if i get anything new related to this game. <span
id="more-132"></span></p><p><img
src="http://sparxengine.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/zeus_cheats-300x225.jpg" alt="Zeus_Master_of_olympus_Cheats" /></p><p>Press [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[C] and enter any of the following codes:</p><ul><li>Delian Treasury &#8211; Add 1000 coins</li><li>Ambrosia &#8211; Win scenario</li><li>Fireballs from Heaven &#8211; Strike a particular piece of ground with fireball</li><li>Bowvine and Arrows &#8211; Towers shoot cows instead of arrows</li><li>Cheese Puff &#8211; Dairy workers put on cheese suits</li><li>Fishy &#8211; Unlimited food</li><li>SoundFrags &#8211; Killed animals make funny noises</li></ul> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://sparxengine.net/zeus-master-of-olympus-cheats-tricks-and-tips.htm/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Plants vs Zombies Cheats and Achievements Code</title><link>http://sparxengine.net/plants-vs-zombies-cheats-and-achievements-code.htm</link> <comments>http://sparxengine.net/plants-vs-zombies-cheats-and-achievements-code.htm#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:01:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>mahesh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Games]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sparxengine.net/?p=118</guid> <description><![CDATA[Plants vs Zombies is an interesting game but once you complete all the levels it becomes boring. You&#8217;ll be then forced to grow the wisdom tree for many hours of gameplay. Tree of wisdom is also very slow on growth and requires growth in thousands to show a single wisdom once it runs out of [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Plants vs Zombies is an interesting game but once you complete all the levels it becomes boring. You&#8217;ll be then forced to grow the wisdom tree for many hours of gameplay. Tree of wisdom is also very slow on growth and requires growth in thousands to show a single wisdom once it runs out of it. <span
id="more-118"></span>Thus only way to play interesting game is from endless level and some other small games. You can use the cheats to skip some of the boring levels and to get more coins to buy fertilizer for tree of wisdom. There are some codes to unlock the achievements as well which usually take many hours of gameplay.</p><p><strong>How to Unlock More Achievements </strong><br
/> You can unlock many achievements once you finish the initial game. These achievements requires you to either play the game for many hours or unlock them using the code. It&#8217;s always better to unlock the achievements by playing the game as some of the achievements can be easily cracked if you play for some time.</p><ul><li><em>Ask Me About Mustache Mode</em>:  Enable Mustache Mode</li><li><em>Nobel Peas Prize</em>:  Wins golden sunflower trophy</li><li><em>Spudow!</em>:    Destroy a zombie using a potato mine</li><li><em>Better Off Dead</em>:   Get a streak of over 10 in I, Zombie Endless</li><li><em>China Shop</em>: Complete a streak of 15 in Vasebreaker Endless</li><li><em>Cryptozombologist</em>: Discover the top secret zombie</li><li><em>Explodonator</em>: Destroy 10 zombies with a single cherry bomb</li><li><em>Home Lawn Security</em>: Complete adventure mode</li><li><em>Immortal</em>: Complete 20 flags in Survival Endless</li><li><em>Morticulturalist</em>: Collect all 49 plants in garden</li><li><em>Towering Wisdom</em>: Increase the height of  Tree of Wisdom to 100 feet</li><li><em>Walk This Way</em>: This code will hypnotize the lead dancer zombie</li></ul><p><strong>Funny Cheatcodes for Plants vs Zombies </strong><br
/> These cheatcodes are for fun and don&#8217;t add any value of money or sun in the level. They just make fun of zombies and resets once you exit the level.</p><ul><li><em>tohot</em> &#8211; This will enable infinite sun in your current level.</li><li><em>pinata </em> &#8211; This word will unlock pinata mode which will shower candies on body of destroyed zombie.</li><li><em>dance</em> &#8211; Who says only micheal jackson zombie can dance ? Use the word &#8216;dance&#8217; and you&#8217;ll find almost every zombie dancing in the field. This will also help you slow them down by few seconds.</li><li><em>daisies</em> &#8211; This code will leave small daisies once any zombie dies in the backyard field.</li><li><em>future </em>- Want your zombies to wear future clothes ? goggles ? use this word to change the looks of your zombies.</li><li><em>mustache</em> &#8211; Well, there is already one zombie with mustache but you can turn all the other zombies with mustache using this code.</li><li><em>sukhbir</em> &#8211; Tired grr sound all the time ? Toggle this sound for &#8216;brains&#8217; call when any new zombie appears on scree. You can also re-toggle to old sound using this code.</li><li><em>trickedout</em> &#8211; This code changes the appearance of lawn mower in the field.</li></ul><p><strong>Laggy The Snail Strategy</strong></p><p>You can speed up coin collection in your day garden using laggy the snail. You&#8217;ll get laggy the snail&#8217;s chocolate in survival mode. These chocolates will help speed up laggy to collect coins. You&#8217;ll get more than 1000 bucks using the garden plants. Day, Night and Water plants gives you bucks for feeding, spraying and entertaining them.</p><p><strong>How to Kill Digger Zombie</strong></p><p>You can kill digger zombie using potato mine and split pea. You just have to place potato mine on fourth or fifth columns of the garden. Make sure those mines are not used against normal or heavy stamina zombies. Split pea zombies work against digger zombies but due to single pea per shot makes attack slow. So you should always use pumpkin on your subflowers if places at the last column of the garden. Make sure that all of your plants in last three columns get pumpkin for protection. Another option to kill digger zombie is to use shroom magnet. This magnet will fetch their digger tool so they can&#8217;t digg anymore. They&#8217;ll pop out of the yard and then attack on nearest plant. Make sure you use pumpkin on almost every level where you&#8217;re using plants to stop digger zombie.</p><p><strong>Killing Zomboni and Catapult Zombie</strong></p><p>Zomboni and Catapult zombies can&#8217;t stand against spikeweed and spikerock. Spikeweed only stops one zomboni whereas spikerock can stop 3-6 zombonis. Make sure that you use both spikeweed and spikerock in a level where there are too many zombonis or catapult zombies come randomly.</p><p><strong>Baloon zombie</strong></p><p>You&#8217;ll find that balloon zombies are hard to kill with most powerful plants. There are two plants that can kill these zombies and if you miss any specific plant in the level then you&#8217;ll lose that level. For garden with pool, make sure you choose &#8216;cattail&#8217; as it protects you from both baloon zombies and most other powerful zombies. For level with garden (without pool), you need to use cactus as these cactus will help you kill them. In this level there is no other plant can help you.</p><p><strong>How to Get More Coins </strong><br
/> You can earn more coins if you play hard level or slot machine, bowling levels. These levels are made just to make you money. Make sure you do all it takes to defend your lawn mowers because using them will cut 250 coins from the reserve. Bowling levels are easy to complete and by planning the defense you can easily kill many zombies in column using exploding nuts. Slot machine gives you money earning plant and that will also generate money for you. Slot machine level is very short so make sure you take advantage while it lasts. Hard levels usually run for 10 flags and by properly settings your plants you can insta kill the zombies. Killing zombies quickly will give you more money (in form of diamonds or big gold coin). It&#8217;s not difficult to earn more coins, you just need to plan right for the levels.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://sparxengine.net/plants-vs-zombies-cheats-and-achievements-code.htm/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Farmville Cheats, Tricks and Strategy</title><link>http://sparxengine.net/farmville-cheats-tricks-and-strategy.htm</link> <comments>http://sparxengine.net/farmville-cheats-tricks-and-strategy.htm#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:51:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>mahesh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Games]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sparxengine.net/?p=114</guid> <description><![CDATA[Farmville is one of the popular game on facebook and everyday millions of people play it for hours on their computer. The basic theme of farmville is that users are supposed to do following task on regular basis &#8211; plowing, planting and harvesting. These are some of the tasks of farmers on farmville and later [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Farmville is one of the popular game on facebook and everyday millions of people play it for hours on their computer. The basic theme of farmville is that users are supposed to do following task on regular basis &#8211; plowing, planting and harvesting. These are some of the tasks of farmers on farmville and later you can sell your land, crops or other things to make money.<span
id="more-114"></span> If you&#8217;re new to this game then let me tell you that farmville is not just time-wasting game but it also allows you to earn real money and in some parts you&#8217;re expected to spend real money. You start with 26&#215;26 land and then grow it up to large profitable farm. In this post i&#8217;m going to show you some cheats, tricks and strategies to enhance your farmville experience.</p><p><strong>Profitable Crops on Farmville</strong></p><p>Making more profit should be your goal on farmville. There are some plants that gives you more returns of investment on farmville. You can use these plants to make more profit &#8211; raspberries, soybeans and artichokes. In my personal famrville experience i found that raspberries and soyabeans are very profitable plants.</p><p><strong>Farmville Bots</strong></p><p>You&#8217;ll often hear that farmville bots script is helping users to make more money or with any other task. Please note that farmville servers do catch bots and you&#8217;ll be penalized for the illegal action and your facebook account will be banned from famville server. You can use strategies, tricks and other guides that help you level up but avoid using bots at any cost. If you&#8217;re newbie to computers and don&#8217;t know how to work things out then definitely avoid adding bots to your farmville profile.</p><p><strong>Farm Upgrade Trick</strong></p><p>You&#8217;ll need 35 neighbours near your farm in order to increase the size of your farm. It&#8217;s not possible to get neighbors from your friendlist because many of your friends are likely to ignore those requests. In such case you can ask on farmville fan forums, gaming forums etc. These places are perfect to ask for neighbor requests. Some people will tell you to create fake accounts to get 35 neighbors but in my opinion that&#8217;s close to earning a ban from facebook.</p><p><strong>Profitable Farmville Trees</strong></p><p>There are some crops which wither, requires constant plowing and also need to replant. In case of trees you don&#8217;t have to worry about these things and they can also generate consistent profit for you every hour. Take a look at few best trees for making profit &#8211; Acai: 2 days, 158 coins, 2.29 coins/hour, Olive: 4 days, 112 coins, 1.67 coins/hour, Date: 3 days, 69 coins, 0.95 coins/hour, Pomegranate: 5 days, 108 coins, 0.90 coins/hour. You can acquire olive, date and pomegranate trees from your friend as gift but acai tree requires farmville cash to purchase it.</p><p><strong>Making Money from Animals, Trees and other Gifts</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Farmville animals</strong> like &#8211; cows, and chicken can be used for profit. Milk from cow can be used to sell for some small cost and same goes for chicken as you can sell eggs. Other animals wander across farm making sound or some random action, but they&#8217;re not profitable if you want to make money off of them.</li><li><strong>Trees</strong> &#8211; Some trees just add the ornamental effect to your farm and nothing much than few bucks. Some are completely free or not worth for buy and sell. You can skip most of the trees in the game.</li><li><strong>Random Assorted Gifts</strong> &#8211; These gifts often pop up when you level up or in some random time in the game. If you want to make money on famrville then it&#8217;s better to sell them if you&#8217;re not going to use them as many such gifts are unusable in first place.</li></ul><p><strong>Get More XP Per Hour in Farm</strong></p><p>You&#8217;ll be surprised to know that crops with less XP gain can be beneficial. Try adding strawberry and blueberry to your farm and see how much XP you&#8217;ll gain per hour. You need to harvest them every 4 hours or so that&#8217;s the only thing you need to watch out. These two crops give 0.25XP per hour which is not bad if you&#8217;re under level 25.</p><p><strong>Crop Growing Cheat</strong></p><p>It&#8217;s really hard to keep tab on how early or long crop growing time takes. In such cases you can plant crops and manage your time when they ripens. It&#8217;s hard for some people to handle even in this case. So try this trick to keep tab on growing crops &#8211; Plant tomatoes, pumpkins and sugacanes as it take 8 hours to ripen them and you can login after that time to plow your farm again. This is handy for those who get less time for farm management and want to save money and rotted crops.</p><p><strong>Speed up Planting and Plowing</strong></p><p>In order to speed up planting or plowing process, follow these tipes.</p><ul><li>Go to market and purchase the fences.</li><li>Select your player and put him in the middle of the section which you cleared for plowing.</li><li>Select the fences and put them around your person.</li><li>Now that your person is blocked, you can plow and plant much faster in this setup.</li></ul><p>If you&#8217;ve large area to plow or plant then this trick will surely help you to set up multiple plants in your farm.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://sparxengine.net/farmville-cheats-tricks-and-strategy.htm/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>PythonProtoCards Open Source Card Game Design Helper Scripts</title><link>http://sparxengine.net/pythonprotocards-open-source-card-game-design-helper-scripts.htm</link> <comments>http://sparxengine.net/pythonprotocards-open-source-card-game-design-helper-scripts.htm#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:01:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>mahesh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Engines]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sparxengine.net/?p=111</guid> <description><![CDATA[Board games and card games often deal with the use of fancy cards or cards with animated character or instruction embedded on them. If you&#8217;re planning to build any card game then there is one helper script that can help you automate this task. You can use this script to build your own set of [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Board games and card games often deal with the use of fancy cards or cards with animated character or instruction embedded on them. If you&#8217;re planning to build any card game then there is one helper script that can help you automate this task. You can use this script to build your own set of animated or instruct-able cards. This script is mainly suitable for folks who wants to build card or board game for offline playing. This script is released as opensource and you can work on python script from any operating system that python supports.</p><p><img
src="http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/pythonprotocards/codycards.jpg" alt="Python Proto Card" /></p><p>There&#8217;s not much of information about this script from official site. So it&#8217;s hard for me to explain it here in this post. You can check for more information on <a
href="http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/pythonprotocards/">pythonprotocards pag</a>e and <a
href="http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=26052.0">thread</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://sparxengine.net/pythonprotocards-open-source-card-game-design-helper-scripts.htm/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Alchemy &#8211; Python Based Puzzle Game</title><link>http://sparxengine.net/alchemy-python-based-puzzle-game.htm</link> <comments>http://sparxengine.net/alchemy-python-based-puzzle-game.htm#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:13:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>mahesh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[2D]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Games]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sparxengine.net/?p=105</guid> <description><![CDATA[Python based games do exist and with pygame library i&#8217;m sure many python developers will jump in to develop small games. You can do a lot of stuff with 2D library like pygame. Take a look at alchemy game. This game is a puzzle game where you&#8217;re going to eliminate the three or more matching [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Python based games do exist and with pygame library i&#8217;m sure many python developers will jump in to develop small games. You can do a lot of stuff with 2D library like pygame. Take a look at alchemy game. This game is a puzzle game where you&#8217;re going to eliminate the three or more matching color tiles. <span
id="more-105"></span>This is to complete an alchemy experiment where you destroy tiles to perform transmutation. If you follow the plot of alchemy and those experiments then you can relate that into this game. This is puzzle game that is made to keep users busy for some time. Recent updates of this game are not much of interesting as it adds only two more levels.</p><p><img
src="http://sparxengine.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/alchemy-300x126.jpg" alt="Alchemy Game" /></p><p>Personally i don&#8217;t take much time to complete puzzle games, so obviously get bored with it after some time. If you like puzzle games then do check out <a
href="https://github.com/megaumi/Alchemy-match-3-game">alchemy</a>. <img
src='http://sparxengine.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://sparxengine.net/alchemy-python-based-puzzle-game.htm/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Allegro 2D Game Library</title><link>http://sparxengine.net/allegro-2d-game-library.htm</link> <comments>http://sparxengine.net/allegro-2d-game-library.htm#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:05:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>mahesh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[General]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sparxengine.net/?p=96</guid> <description><![CDATA[There are plenty of C/C++ libraries that you can use to make 2D games. I came across allegro from one game development forums. Allegro games run on multiple operating systems and there is no restriction of modern hardware. Allegro can run on older operating systems like BeOS, DOS and other older graphic rich OS. If [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are plenty of C/C++ libraries that you can use to make 2D games. I came across allegro from one game development forums. Allegro games run on multiple operating systems and there is no restriction of modern hardware. <span
id="more-96"></span>Allegro can run on older operating systems like BeOS, DOS and other older graphic rich OS. If you&#8217;re looking for any C/C++ library to develop your 2D game then take a look at allegro.</p><p>Those who use SDL or similar other C/C++ library will find allegro easy to use like SDL but much more feature rich than SDL. Allegro API is improved a lot and now because of that you can do both low and high level functions using this library. It also supports 3D and there are some demos available for you to view 3D capability of this library.  Just like SDL it also handles threads,timers,sound,networking,player input, etc,in addition to all that, Allegro also has GUI support just like Irrlicht does. Don&#8217;t expect this library to be like irrlicht though as it is more suitable for 2D than 3D games.</p><div
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src="http://sparxengine.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/allegro_beos-300x240.jpg" alt="" title="allegro_beos" width="300" height="240" class="size-medium wp-image-98" /><p
class="wp-caption-text">Allegro Games in BeOS</p></div><p>Allegro has flexible license for developers and there are no strict restrictions for using it. License can be classified into &#8220;giftware&#8221; category, so that allows you to even distribute the games under commercial license.</p><p>You can get more information about it from <a
href="http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/readme.html">Allegro website</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://sparxengine.net/allegro-2d-game-library.htm/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Adventure Game Studio</title><link>http://sparxengine.net/adventure-game-studio.htm</link> <comments>http://sparxengine.net/adventure-game-studio.htm#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 07:11:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>mahesh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[2D]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Application]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Engines]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sparxengine.net/?p=90</guid> <description><![CDATA[Old sieraa point and click games are still loved by most of the gamers. In fact plenty of newbie and intermediate game developers prefer these point-click type adventure games. The reason behind so many games in such category is because they are easy for developers to make. There is one IDE that let’s you create [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Old sieraa point and click games are still loved by most of the gamers. In fact plenty of newbie and intermediate game developers prefer these point-click type adventure games. The reason behind so many games in such category is because they are easy for developers to make.<span
id="more-90"></span> There is one IDE that let’s you create such games without any pain. This game IDE is known as “adventure game studio&#8221;. With adventure game studio,all you have to do is concentrate on game design and levels. It has a editor that let’s you design the environment and a built in engine that runs the game.</p><p><img
src="http://sparxengine.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/game-ags-300x187.png" alt="" title="A tale of two kingdoms" width="300" height="187" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-91" /></p><p>Image credit &#8211; Copyright crystal shard- Game A tale of two kingdoms</p><p><strong>What is the price of this editor ?</strong></p><p>It is completely free of cost. You can even create game and distribute it for free or commercially. The editor is not so huge and is only 7MB installer that runs on Windows XP and higher operating systems.</p><p><strong>What are the features of this game ?</strong></p><p>You should take a look at <a
href="http://www.bigbluecup.com/acfeat.htm">this.</a><br
/> You should have .NET 2.0 installed on your computer but you don’t need it while distributing your game. Game engine will take care of the runtime environment during deployment.</p><p><strong>Can I create Multiplatform games with this IDE ?</strong></p><p>Though IDE is windows-only. You can create games that runs on windows, linux and DOS. these games can run from resolution of 320&#215;200 to 1024&#215;768.</p><p><strong>Does it supports scripting ?</strong></p><p>It has it’s own java/c# style scripting language. If you have experience with these languages then you will find it easy to work around this scripting language.</p><p><strong>What about Developer License ?</strong></p><p>AGS has no objection if you compile and distribute games freely or commercially. But there are some license terms that chris wants you to take a look at. You should read those terms before publishing any commercial game.</p><p>So if you are interested in point-and-click adventure game then <a
href="http://www.bigbluecup.com/acdload.htm">download AGS studio</a>. Have Fun. <img
src='http://sparxengine.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://sparxengine.net/adventure-game-studio.htm/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>HTML 5 Canvas</title><link>http://sparxengine.net/html-5-canvas.htm</link> <comments>http://sparxengine.net/html-5-canvas.htm#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:01:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>mahesh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[General]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sparxengine.net/?p=83</guid> <description><![CDATA[HTML 5 is opening all new possibilities to the web games. You don’t need to own the license of flash or other framework anymore. You can simply take benefit of the canvas that HTML 5 is providing you. There is a lot you can do even though it is just beginning with the canvas. W3C [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HTML 5 is opening all new possibilities to the web games. You don’t need to own the license of flash or other framework anymore. You can simply take benefit of the canvas that HTML 5 is providing you. There is a lot you can do even though it is just beginning with the canvas. <span
id="more-83"></span></p><p>W3C released < canvas > tag with which we can be used for rendering graphs, game graphics, or other visual images.  Simply put canvas is an area where you can use javascript to draw the graphics of your choice.</p><p><strong>Canvas Tag is Supported on Following Browsers</strong></p><li>Firefox 3.0+ onwards</li><li>Safari 3.0+</li><li>IE 7.0</li><li>Chrome 3.0+</li><p><strong>Example Canvas ? </strong></p><p>Code below will create simple canvas that will draw invisible canvas on the page.</p><blockquote><p> < canvas width= "550"  height= "400" ></p><p><canvas
width="300" height="250"></canvas></p></blockquote><p>To get started with things you can add border to your canvas, fill it with background and can do many other things.</p><p><strong>What can i do with it ? </strong></p><p>You can draw-</p><li>Particle Systems</li><li>Shapes</li><li>Reset the canvas</li><li>2D animation</li><li>2D Games</li><p><strong>What about 3D ?</strong></p><p>HTML5 canvas tag doesn’t come up with 3D context. There is no vendor independent API for 3D context so as of now there is no 3D.</p><p><strong>Where to go from here ?</strong></p><p>If you are mozilla or opera user then you check the following resource.</p><li>Mozilla Developer Center &#8211; Canvas Tutorial</li><li>Opera &#8211; HTML 5 Canvas tutorial</li><p><strong>Is there any book ?</strong></p><p>Yes. You can buy Book from Amazon “<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596806027?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=onecore-20&#038;linkCode=xm2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creativeASIN=0596806027">HTML 5 Up &#038; Running</a>”.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://sparxengine.net/html-5-canvas.htm/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Windows &amp; Xbox Game Development Blogs</title><link>http://sparxengine.net/windows-xbox-game-development-blogs.htm</link> <comments>http://sparxengine.net/windows-xbox-game-development-blogs.htm#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 09:51:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>mahesh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[General]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://sparxengine.net/?p=79</guid> <description><![CDATA[In earlier post i discussed about game development blogs and resource. In this post i’m listing some of the worthy blogs for windows and xbox game development. 1. Zbuffer blog 2. Benjamin&#8217;s XNA blog 3. XNA Creator&#8217;s Blog 4. Ziggyware blog]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In earlier post i discussed about game development blogs and resource. In this post i’m listing some of the<br
/> worthy blogs for windows and xbox game development.<br
/> <span
id="more-79"></span></p><p>1. <a
href="http://www.thezbuffer.com">Zbuffer blog</a><br
/> 2. <a
href="http://abi.exdream.com">Benjamin&#8217;s XNA blog</a><br
/> 3. <a
href="http://creators.xna.com/en-US">XNA Creator&#8217;s Blog</a><br
/> 4. <a
href="http://www.ziggyware.com ">Ziggyware blog </a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://sparxengine.net/windows-xbox-game-development-blogs.htm/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
