Update 23 April 2008 - Game Baker 0.1.2 ZIP DEB Changes

To install on Ubuntu download the .deb and run "sudo dpkg -i game-baker-0.1.2_all.deb"

Game Baker is a visual game editor, easy enough for children and fun enough for adult game creators.

It is designed to be cross platform and is released under an open source license.

Please see the wiki for more information on project goals.

Common Links: Architecture, Installing, wiki, Demo Games, Bug Reporting / Feature Request

Getting Game Baker

If you are using Unix, or you know what SVN is it is probably best to get the svn snapshot by running the command svn checkout http://game-baker.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ game-baker-read-only , which will download the newest version to a new folder.

Otherwise, you can download the most recent .zip or .deb (for installation on Ubuntu / Debian etc.) from the downloads page

To run the application you will need python, pygame and pygtk. If you are on Linux you will probably only need to get pygame (in ubuntu type "sudo apt-get install python-pygame" ). If you are on Windows visit the links above. Mac users should (I think) only need pygame.

Once you have downloaded Game Baker try running one of the test games in the demos folder.

Creating Games

Game Baker is currently in an early stage, however it is possible to create some (very) simple games in python using the game-baker classes. Hopes are to provide a full GUI for the system so that you do not need to use a single line of code to create a game, currently however it is only possible to use the GUI to browse a game created using the python interface.

If you are interested in helping out please download the source from subversion and look through the demos folder. You will come across missing features and bugs, please report them using the Issues tab above.

Please also note that the codebase is too young to be stable, and future updates to SVN may break games designed using an older release.

Helping Out

• If you are interested in helping to code Game Baker please see our development group

http://groups.google.com/group/game-baker

• If you are interested in helping to create demo games or in creating games using Game Baker please see the section above.

• If you are interested in creating free graphics or sounds to release with Game Baker, please see our developer group.

• If you are interested in helping to debug and improve Game Baker please try to create a simple game with it, or try to run the demos. Report any bugs you find (there will be lots), along with your operating system and any other details on the Issues tab above.