The Games Factory 2 - Newgrounds Edition

In an unexpected and rather exciting move, Clickteam have released a free version of The Games Factory 2 specifically for Newgrounds. This free copy has all the functionality of the full version (which is all the functionality of MMF minus third party extensions), but will only allow you to publish SWFs that are site-locked to Newgrounds. So now, even if you haven't ever picked up Actionscript, you too can put together a game, submit it to the site and get it completely savaged by protozoa - I'm hoping that with the introduction of a free copy, the possibilities of the full package will be drawn more to the attention of independent developers who are more used to free environments or pirating Flash than actually having to pay for something.

Since I started publishing Flash games made with the Click range there, the number of views that I got for my creations has been staggering to someone used to looking at figures from downloads alone - a couple of thousand views in a weekend is not uncommon by any means, and with these MMF-made creations already there in disguise as Flash files, nobody has expressed any revulsion towards them at all. Now that the secret is out, the community aren't sure quite what to think of it yet, but among the occasional fears that it will marginalize actual coders are encouraging comments like "I really really like this program a lot. This is how I always wished how making a game was" and "I must say im impressed by this suckah, I thought it would be bad, but looking at some games made with it, this is great day for animators!". Whatever a "suckah" is. But I think it's probably good.

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