Platform Builder Presskit

Factsheet

Developer:
TingThing
Based in United States

Release date:
August 14 2016

Platforms:
Windows

Website:
indiedb.com/games/platform-builder

Description

Platform Builder is a project designed to allow its users to create their own platformer games without the need for programming skills. The program is designed to be user-friendly, and quick to learn, yet powerful and sophisticated to allow maximum creativity. You are in command to design your own character, levels, over-worlds, enemies, title screen, and more. The program also has a built in assistant which tells you useful information as you go, and contains knowledge for almost any element in the Builder. Games and levels can be shared and played straight from Platform Builder, giving you the opportunity to publish your creations and check out what other people have done. Platform Builder is available for free download. There is also a paid version which opens up the program to support unlimited resources and many special features.

History

When I was a young, my favorite part about any video game was the level editor. I loved them! I always wanted to make my own computer games but I had no idea how. Eventually, I self-taught myself to make my own things with Game Maker.

After a couple years involved in it, I developed a program called Mario Builder, which was a toolkit which allowed users to create their own Mario games. I never expected it to become big, but Mario Builder ended up reaching hundreds of thousands of people. Unfortunately, I decided to put that project to rest for a number of reasons, one of them being the fact that I was using assets which were not my own.

Platform Builder was born out of Mario Builder. It uses the same core interface but with original assets and many more features than ever before. I hope that some day it may give even more people the opportunity to express their creativity in level design than Mario Builder was ever able to.