YoYo Games has announced that Grave Maker, its first ‘true’ social game, is available to demo in beta form on the YoYo Games website. Developed entirely with YoYo Games’ GameMaker platform, Grave Maker runs in HTML5 and will soon be available as a cross-platform release for web-based Facebook, iOS and Android devices thanks to easy export functionality in GameMaker: Studio.
InDee Toons is a library of customizable animated 2D game characters for indie developers.
The project is currently live on the crowd-funding website Kickstarter.
The project allows anybody to create their own unique animated game characters in a few clicks, similar to how a paper doll works, which doesn't require any artistic skills and is a lot of fun.
On top of being provided as premade sprite packs, the toons can be freely customized by exchanging parts between different characters and by making use of the unique custom head generator every toon comes with.
As soon as the funding goal is reached, backers of the Kickstarter will decide what themes they want to have for the additional characters that are not yet created.
InDee Toons brings billions of different combinations, so you can have the actors of your game tailored to your needs without having to hire an artist.
I remember seeing this, but seeing it as a developer, it would only be useful for people who are practicing making games.
God forbid if people used this in actual games for sale; it's like when all of them crappy GoAnimate animations were made on Youtube.
Roencia Game Creators is offering the "Indie Graphics Builder" for free, to those that back their zombie/alien survival game project. The IGB is essentially a collection from many of the build-your-own type graphic packs on their site. The package is usually available for $200 and contains around 9,000 files.
When backing "Stop the Planet: I want to get off" from the Kickstarter site at $75 or higher, you get:
1) The survival indie game
2) The rewards/prizes that come with it
3) A great package for building, prototyping, selling your games.
*Note, the attached video is old, and some files may or may not be in the IGB. Click the link to check the offer.
YoYo Games has officially launched Grave Maker, a social videogame available now on Facebook, Android tablets and HTML5 Web formats that is also coming soon for iPad. Grave Maker has served as a prototype throughout GameMaker: Studio‘s development as a test bed. Grave Maker is also one of the first social videogames to allow players to login with their Facebook credentials and access the same data across various platforms, allowing them to pick up where they left off on the device of their choice.
