Another week dawns, and due to a public holiday across most of Europe, a slightly later news bulletin than normal.

By now most of you will have grabbed GameGuru V1, which introduced the start of 3rd person and the character creator. We’ve already released our first update to it, improving on these features as well as fixing a rare but annoying crash for a limited number of users on lower end machines.

We’re also spending the week planning as well as developing, so we’ll be looking at the next exciting range off tweaks, fixes and updates based on popular demand and just a little common sense.

In the meantime, here’s a little screenshot from a game being developed by an internal team member to hopefully inspire all you budding creators. If you think Fallout meets Doom you’re on the right track with where the game is heading.

Screenshot competition

If you’ve not already spotted this one, we’re running a new competition with a chance for users to win up to $250.  We’re looking for the best GameGuru screenshot you can create. There’s no media restrictions, no subject restrictions and no limit to the number of times you can enter. All you need to do it impress us with some amazing screenshots. We don’t want the FPM’s, so you don’t even need to worry about that.

We’re looking 10 winners and we’re offering:

1st Prize : $250

2nd Prize $200

3rd Prize $100

4th and 5th will both win $50 and the remaining 5 winners will be awarded 4,000 store points.

The Rules

1) You may use ANY MEDIA

2) The screenshot MUST be from GameGuru and cannot be altered in any other package.

3) You MUST upload your screenshots to the GameGuru Gallery, you may also if you wish upload to Steam Artwork.

3) Please email the link to the screenshot to: Dave Hawkins at scenecommanderTGC@gmail.com

Ensure you use the subject USER -FORUM-COMPETITION7.

e.g thescenecommander- Steam – competition7 in the subject line.

Entries that do not meet this criteria will be disqualified.

4) You must include the following information in your email.

4.1) Your real name

4.2) You GameGuru or Steam user name.

4.3) A valid email for an active PayPal account as we cannot offer cash prizes via any other means

4.4) Your TheGameCreators account email so we can award store points.

5) All entries must be received by midnight GMT 12th June 2015

6) This competition is not open to any member of TheGameCreators staff or support team.

7) You may enter as many times as you like, but remember quality is better than quantity.

8) The competition will be judged by at least two members of TheGameCreators staff and their decision will be final.

From the Gallery

This week, we’re taking a look at some of the great uploads to Steam.

The always excellent Rolfy has once again impressed us with a wonderful woodland scene, showing fog and clever lighting to great effect.

This also caught our eye, we don’t normally feature videos in this section, but the amazing work of JForthDesigns is clearly worth a showcase. This custom cartoon media looks great, and just show how different a GameGuru game can look with a change of genre.

Store News

A lot of exciting new media has been uploaded in the last week or so, and I’m sure you’ll find something that you will count as a must have.

This excellent Beach Assault pack from newcomer Pasquil is obviously ideal for WW2 games, but we can see a much wider range genres that this media would benefit. Shown in the screenshot below is also some of Rolfy’s animated waves media that complements the beach assault pack perfectly.

If you’re looking for critters, artist Dagored has added to his range with this very useful attack dog. Great for many games covering almost all genres.

Also from the same artist, this creepy zombie hand is ideal for your horror games.

Become a Store Artist!

The Game Creator Store connects creative artists and musicians with enthusiastic GameGuru game developers. Can you create game ready 3D models or themed atmospheric music for the GameGuru community? If so, sign into the GameGuru website and sign up to HERE!

GameGuru update news

We’re sure you’re all up to date with the latest version of GameGuru, but if not, log into Steam now to upgrade. You will find a range of tweaks, fixes and improvements:

• The third person wizard character can now open doors
• We’ve added the ability for the camera to look up and down in third person mode
• We’ve prevented third person from accidentally equipping new weapons
• Removed the recoil effect from firing fireball in third person
• Stopped third person stuttering if you hold down left mouse button
• Fixed issue where facial hair color would reset for characters in the editor after using Character Creator
• Fixed an issue when using test or starting multiplayer whilst using Character Creator or the Importer
• When choosing skin tone you can now decide to not choose a colour by clicking outside the color palette, or select “none” from inside the palette
• Fixed an issue that would prevent GameGuru from starting up on some machines

I’m sure you’re all keen to know what the next build has in store, and I can confirm that we’ve already made some improvements to the editor in free flight mode as well as adding some hotkeys to the widget to make the whole experience more consistent. In addition to this we’ve improved 3rd person control and fixed a bug preventing 3rd person from being killed in an explosion.

We’ve also made some improvements to projectiles to add to the types available, we’ll reveal more on this soon.

 Signing off

Another week of coding and planning, so it’s back to the caves for the Dev team. Lots of new and exciting features to come, so keep an eye on the weekly news and Steam and GameGuru forums for all the latest updates.

Don’t forget Lee’s Blog for daily updates and musings.

The GameGuru team.