Adventure Maker is a a free toolkit that allows you to create your own games and other multimedia applications for Windows, PSP, iPhone, and iPod touch. The concept of this program is very simple. You just import your pictures (drawing, photos, etc.) and then create some hotspots to link the pictures. All the projects are made by frames that are basically pictures containing hotspots and other objects. The program comes with a step-by-step tutorial and tips that will help you create your first project in a snap. It also comes with a bunch of pictures for the projects and also sample projects that you can use as a model for creating your own.
This tool is intended to create small programs for personal use, but if you are interested in creating more advanced or professional projects, you should definitely buy the full version. With the free version you will be able to create first-person adventure games, educational software, interactive content, and presentations, whereas the full-version allows you to create 360-degrees panoramas and third-person adventure games.
The user interface is weird. You will find a main menu floating in the background which contains all the available options and as you click on one of them, new detached windows are opened beside it. However, once you get used to it, it is very comfortable and easy to use. In short, I suggest you try Adventure Maker and see all the things it offers.
v4.6.1 [Apr 6, 2010]
The main new feature of Adventure Maker is called one-click sell. It allows you to publish and sell your iPhone/iPodTouch games with just a few clicks!
Other new features are :
- Improved cylindrical panorama stability and compatibility (v4.5.2)
- Resizable frame editor window (particularly useful for working with panoramic frames)
- Fast loading of savegames even for games with thousands of variables (previously, it could take up to 1 minute to load a game with 3000 variables for example)
- Fixed the bug that prevented loading a savegame in a panoramic game (both for the cylinder and the cubic panoramas)
- New "Yes to all", "No to all", and "Cancel" commands in the window that asks you whether you want the imported pictures to be automatically resized to fit the game resolution
- Possibility to select and remove multiple variables from the lists that are under the "Variables" tab of the Hotspot Properties
- Bigger "Load Project" and "Save Project" windows of Adventure Maker
- Possibility to stop the game when a VBScript error message appears (to prevent infinite loops of error messages)
- Improved behavior when clicking the browser "Back" and "Forward" buttons during an HTML game or a game for iPhone/iPodTouch
- Uninstalling a game created with Adventure Maker no longer displays a warning about shared system files
- Encrypting a plugin no longer causes an error message
- Further improved Vista compatibility
Great platform for gamers who want to have access to all their favorite Electronic Arts games in one place
