-a montage video of tech demos/games created with Construct
~About Construct (taken from official website)~
Construct is a free powerful and easy to use development software for both DirectX 9-based games and applications. It includes an event based system for defining how the game or application will behave, in a visual, human-readable way - easy enough for complete beginners to get results quickly. Optionally, advanced users can also use Python scripting to code your creations.
Construct is not a commercial software project, and is developed by volunteers. It is 100% free to download the full version - no nag screens, adverts or restricted features at all.
Features
Create games and applications with:
* Super fast hardware-accelerated DirectX 9 graphics engine
* Add multiple pixel shaders for special effects, including lighting, HDR, distortion, lenses and more
* Advanced rendering effects like motion blur, skew and bumpmapping (3D lighting)
* Innovative Behaviors system for defining how objects work in a flexible way
* Physics engine for realistic object behavior
* Bone animation system for smooth, dynamic animations using separate objects as 'limbs'
* Place object on different layers for organising display, parallaxing, or whole-layer effects - also freely zoom individual layers in and out with high detail
* Debugger giving you complete control over all aspects of your game for testing purposes.
* Python scripting for advanced users - however, Construct's Events system is still powerful enough to complete entire games without any scripting.
* Smaller, faster specialised runtime for applications
* 60+ plugins ranging from Tiled Background to Windows controls and a C++ plugin SDK for custom development
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I've been playing with it for quite and it's pretty easy especially with specialised plugins that will produce instantaneous results in just clicks. However, to actually make a good game, skill and knowledge is quite needed. Also, it's very flexible and I believe you can do much with it. As you can see, though it doesn't support 'real' 3d, you could create pseudo3d games like the fps doom shooter. in that movie.
And of ocurse, it's still under development, and hasn't reached a complete version wich would be version 1. However, the latest version 0.98.9(march 10, 09), is pretty much all that is needed to be able to make decent games.
You can sell your games! =)
http://www.scirra.com/