The Games Factory 2 - Newgrounds Edition

[davidn]

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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Comments

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

.... wow! That is a really, really interesting development. o_o It never even crossed my mind that a license like that could exist.... give people full access to creation tools, and the ability to publish everything they make somewhere that anyone can see it... and they just pay once they want more control over who monetizes their creations.... it's so simple that I can't believe it hasn't been done yet in hindsight. This is a great arrangement for everyone involved, I would love to know whose idea it was.... I'm really interested in seeing where this goes!

[davidn]

It really is - it hadn't occurred to me before you said it, but I don't think that I've seen this done anywhere else either. While it may seem restrictive to only be able to publish to one place, when that site is Newgrounds, there really is nothing to complain about as far as exposure goes.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

And even if you aren't happy with the exposure on newgrounds, not only did you pay nothing for it, but you aren't limited in who you can link the end result to (for the purposes of shopping around and deciding if you should pay to unlock it!)