Game Creator
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The heart of Game Creator is composed of different components that, used together, allow you to develop any type of game.
The first three are responsible for interacting with the world and allow developers to visually script the world:
Actions: List of instructions
Conditions: Branch to different Actions depending on certain conditions
Triggers: Respond to events and call Actions and Conditions
Apart from these three core components, there are also:
Characters: Fully animated (and customizable) Non-Playable Characters
Player: Same as a Characters but this one is under the control of the user
Camera Motors: A collection of cinematic camera behaviors that can be switched between them.
Variables: Allow you to store world information
Hotspots: Give the player a reaction when passing by these components
For example, a user controls a Character (Player) which when it steps on a Trigger, it executes a set of Actions (which can be a trap where rocks fall and reduce the player's Health)
A set of instructions that are sequentially executed from top to bottom. For example, an Actions set could be the following one:
Move Player near object Chest
Play animation Open on object Chest
Give 10 gold coins to Player
Example of an Action component:
Condition the execution of Actions. For example, you can check if the object Chest has been opened. If so, don't increase the player's gold coins, but show the message: This chest has already been looted!
Example of a Condition component:
Triggers react to inputs and can execute one or more Actions and Conditions. For example, you can detect when the player enters a Lava Zone and execute an Action that makes the player take damage.
These are very simple components that are usually used together with Triggers. They allow to hint the player about interactive elements. These hints can be turned on and off depending on the type of interaction you want.
For example, you can make the Player turn his head towards the hotspot to indicate there's something that has caught his/her attention.
As its name implies, Characters allow to easily add non-playable characters to your world using one single click.
All Characters have walk, run and jump capabilities by default. They also have procedural feet placement using Inverse Kinematics.
Character 3D models can also be easily changed y dropping your 3D model onto the "Change Model" field. Game Creator will automagically retarget all the bones to match the ones from the animations.
There's a special type of Character called Player which inherits all the Character's functionalities and also allows it to be directly controlled by the user using different control schemes.
Cameras control how the world is viewed by the player. There are different types of cameras at your disposal such as steady cameras, top-down cameras motors, orbital adventure cameras, dolly cameras, tween cameras, and much much more!
Variables allow you to store and retrieve information from the world. For example, the "health" of the player could be set as a variable with an initial value of 10, which decreases in one unit every time the player gets hit.
There are three types of Variables:
Global Variables: These variables have a scope of the entire game and are referenced by a given name.
Local Variables: These variables are attached to Game Objects and are referenced by a given name.
List Variables: These variables are attached to Game Objects and are placed like an array of values, which can be accessed via an index.
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For more information on Cameras and Camera Motors click .
For more information on how Variables work, click .
