Welcome to the GameGuru weekly news. This week sees the project hit a key milestone as it comes out of Early Access and releases fully on to Steam.

We’re very proud to announce the release of GameGuru Version 1, as well as the release of six DLC packs to expand your media collections.  If you were one of our amazing supporters who originally pledged to support GameGuru when it was known as “FPS Creator Reloaded”, one or more of these packs will be available to you for free as part of your pledge deal.

You can read all about the new and exciting features you’ll receive as part of Version 1 a little later, but we’re sure you’ll be pleased with this, the first major step towards the creation of the world’s easiest game maker!

Version 1 is here!

GameGuru has changed a lot recently with many new and exciting features. This has all been heading towards the first major milestone in the GameGuru development process and we’re pleased to announce the very first full release, taking GameGuru out of Steam Early Access and into version 1.01.

Version 1.01 is a big advancement, even when compared to the last early access release and it introduces many improved editor features, including the much requested character creator, an excellent and friendly new tool that enables you to design your own characters and quickly and easily add them to your own games. We supply you with some templates to get you started and will be making more choices available as we continue to improve and expand GameGuru.

Please don’t worry about us coming out of Early Access. We are 100% committed to GameGuru and have long term plans to expand and improve it. We felt it was the right time to come out of Early Access and to start promoting GameGuru as a complete game maker. You can be sure we’ll be releasing regular updates just like we’ve done since we launched on Steam earlier this year.

Third Person Gaming!

Today we’re also introducing a new perspective to GameGuru – adding support for 3rd person to the existing 1st person view. You can gain access to the first example of this mode with a new wizard character that comes FREE as part of the GameGuru V1.01 update! If you then purchase the new Fantasy DLC pack you’ll be able to build an amazing environment around him with the new Aztec and jungle assets.

Here we’ve placed the wizard character in a level made from the jungle assets from the Fantasy DLC. There are many fantasy enemies to battle in the level and this starts the whole third person gaming experience in GameGuru.

As you can see from the above screenshot, version 1.01 also introduces a brand new decal system that allows game makers to immerse their players by adding animated effects to their games. We’re providing 20 decals from a mix of genres to get you started, you can also find many more in a new range of Mega Pack DLCs that are released today.

Tutorial System

We’ve also taken the opportunity to introduce a very helpful interactive tutorial system to help new users get started with GameGuru. Over time we plan to expand the tutorials this system can provide. We’ve also included 24 environmental maps to kickstart your game creation – these maps come from our talented community and are a great place to start.

Competition News

As many of you will recall, we hosted a competition last month to design some impressive outdoor maps which would allow users to kickstart their own developments.  In the end, we felt that all entries were worthy winners and have awarded prizes to everyone who entered. All small maps won $50, and all large maps $100. Here are a couple of screenshots from just two of the entrants:

The Garden

The Old Quarry

Congratulations to everyone who entered and thanks for making the whole competition such fun to arrange and judge.

New DLC available

The first wave of DLC’s for GameGuru hit the Steam store this week, and we’re sure you’ll agree we’re taking steps to cover as many genres as we can as well as supply you with some great value packs.

Fantasy pack – This pack contains a large selection of fantasy media set in an Aztec styled environment.

Death Valley – A great collection of modern day desert buildings and assets, fully compatible with the existing default buildings. In addition to these, you’ll also get a selection of props and scenery as well as seven new army characters.

Buildings Pack: The pack contains a selection of modern day and far eastern buildings suitable for adding extra depth to a wide range of town or city games.

Mega pack 01: Contains hundreds of legacy media converted for use with GameGuru. If you’re looking for some more jungle, medieval middle eastern or far east media, this is the pack for you.

Mega Pack 02: This great collection of new and converted legacy media includes a huge selection of models suitable for creating dungeons, castles and cave networks. In addition to the many props and scenic items you’ll also find two demonic characters waiting to fly into your fantasy scenes.

Mega Pack 03: This has a modern day theme and contains several hundred models aimed at creating street themes, packs, offices and war torn streets. Ideal for many different genres, from 1940’s upward.

Signing Off

So, the end of an exciting week for the us here at TheGameCreators, and even though version 1 is now out in the public domain, it’s back to development corner for us as we continue to provide new features to GameGuru.

We hope you all enjoy the first official full version, and keep an eye out for regular additions, improvements, updates and news, both here, on Steam and on the GameGuru forums.

The GameGuru Team.

 

 

 

 

Welcome to a slightly shorter than normal news update. The whole team is focused on preparing a very exciting new build for all GameGuru users that will add new levels of functionality and open up the engine by introducing the start of 3rd person game creation. We’ll be expanding on this feature in weeks and months to come, as we’re sure you’re all aware, this is a massive area of game making and one that we will want to do full justice to.

As well as continuing work on 3rd person play, we are now putting the finishing touches to the Character Creator as well as introducing a new tutorial system built into GameGuru itself. As you can see from this screenshot, the Character Creator is now fully integrated into GameGuru and we’re just running some final tests at the moment.

From the Gallery

As you’ll know, every week we browse the galleries, looking at the amazing work of our community.

From gallery artist Geistschatten, Alien Desert uses a mix of store and custom media to excellent effect.

This very atmospheric screen from JC_Leon shows some excellent use of lighting.

Competition News

Recently we ran two competitions and the results for the 1st one (The Great Outdoors) are now in. We had a difficult time judging – in the end we decided that all valid entries were so good, that everyone should win!

We’ll publish a complete list on the forums soon, but if you entered a small map for the competition you will win $50, and all large maps entered will win $100. We’ve also chosen a selection of the winners to have their maps included in the next build of GameGuru and these will be featured as tutorial levels, showcasing GameGuru as well as the amazing talent of our community. Don’t worry if your level wasn’t chosen for inclusion, but we simply didn’t have room for every one of them and wanted to include a wide selection of designs as possible.

Store News

Last week in the gallery we featured this screenshot by store artist Lafette.

We’re very pleased to announce that he has finished this pack and it is on full release now. Click here to see the full pack of 47 high quality GameGuru ready media for inclusion in your levels.

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!

Signing off

The team is in full on release mode at the moment, so as promised we’re signing off a little earlier than normal. We expect to be able to release a new version this week, so keep an eye on the Steam and GameGuru forum announcements.

As always, thank you for your awesome support and see you all next week.

The GameGuru team

 

 

You may or may not know that here in the United Kingdom the news agencies are going crazy over the general election and the new royal baby. We’re not going to comment on these events, we’ll stay focused like lasers and tell you what’s happening in the world of GameGuru. Thanks to your votes this software baby goes from strength to strength! Late last week we launched V1.00.028 which was received well by the community. Today we’re sending out V1.00.029, fixing a small editor issue for some users.

The team are developing some new areas of GameGuru including the exciting new Character Creator and an interactive tutorial to help new users get started with the software. We’ll also be adding in third person camera controls which will expand the possibilities of GameGuru significantly.

Competitions

We have all the submissions for the two competitions we’ve been running and we’ll start the judging this week.

Thanks to everyone who entered, we’re excited to see what you created!

GameGuru Store News

Sound is a big consideration when you develop a game and the store has lots of sound effects and music tracks ready for you to slot straight into your creations.

Mark Sheeky has released a range of sound packs that we would highly recommend.

You can view all the audio available on the store right here.

A popular pack is this forest pack by Lafette.

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!

Gallery

Here are some recent images from the GameGuru Gallery. The first is an image uploaded by artist Lafette, it shows an industrial scene created out of objects he sells on the store.

This island image is well worth mentioning and shows a good use of store media and a pleasant edited terrain.

Do you have a great image you’d like to share with the community? If so please upload it here.

Signing off

That’s all for this week, we’ll announce the winners of the competition in next week’s news.

The GameGuru Team

Hello and welcome to the latest GameGuru weekly news.

V1.00.28 has taken a couple of days longer than expected but you’ll be pleased to know that we are on schedule for a launch on Friday, and we’re sure you’ll agree that it will be worth the wait. We’ve taken the opportunity to tweak a lot of existing features as well as add in some new ones – including putting the final touches to a decal system which we’re sure users will take great advantage of very soon.

You can read about this and the many other fixes and improvements a little later in this news bulletin.

Competition Reminder

Don’t forget that this month we are running not one, but two level design competitions and there are only a couple more days to get your entries in.

You can find details of our The Great Outdoors Competition here and our Co-op Level Design Competition here.

We’ve already had a lot of maps and as always, we expect it to be a fun and difficult decision doing the judging. We are looking forward to playing the maps and judging what we’re sure will be many great entries.

GameGuru Store News

M2Design has added to his excellent selections of buildings with these huts, click the link to view all of his great media.

 

RatterCreed is offering a selection of quality camping objects.

CGY‘s has created some new sky box objects including this lovely one!

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?

Artist’s benefits

• You’ll receive up to 70% of all sales revenue earned from your published assets.
• The agreement is non-exclusive so you are free to sell your assets elsewhere.
• Payment is made monthly via PayPal.

How do I sell my assets?

It’s easy to become a seller on the store;

1. Sign up to become a store seller. Click here to be redirected to the seller’s sign up.
2. Follow the easy to use guides on how to prepare your assets
3. Upload your assets for approval
4. Once approved, TheGameCreators will publish your assets live onto the store

 Gallery

Once again we’ve taken a look at the work in progress screenshots from our galleries and we’re very please to see user games moving forward.

CORDON 2016 by Sergay Cherevin

This unnamed screenshot from Steam user rogueci5 really reminded us of some MMO’s and really shows off how quickly GameGuru is progressing.

V1.00.28 – Read about what’s coming in the next update

You can read a selection of the latest additions below and don’t forget, you can find a complete list of all the changes in the Changelog located in the main GameGuru folder when we release the next update.

Characters

• Many tweaks to the Zombies – animations are smoother and less fragmented / Zombie damage timings fixed for all ranges of attack
• Added CPUANIMS field to the FPE system which forces entities to use CPU animation; CPUANIMS=0 GPU animation / CPUANIMS=1 CPU animation (for wide scope anims needing ray detection) CPUANIMS=2 Same as 1 but will hide any meshes that do not have animations
• Fixed AI_ZOMBIEWALK.LUA to use correct low-order frame anims
• Tweaked DOOR.LUA so need to SEE door before ‘E to open prompt’
• Prevented AI characters from auto-activating (even unspawned)
• Unspawned entities still processed LUA, so stopped this event

Weapons

• Tweaked the Uzi for improved sound
• Ensured plrreloadspeedmod defaults to 1 when absent from gunspec
• Added player breath sounds for hold-breath zoom mode
• Added enableplrspeedmods to SETUP.INI to activate gunspec mods

• Changed modern day gunspecs to ensure auto reload takes place
• Added sound frequency caps for weapon system (avoids freq. crash)
• Added player breath sounds for hold-breath zoom mode

Media

• Added FULLBOUNDS field to FPE to ensure wide scope anims are handled
• You can now pass through doors in ASYLUM level and others
• Minor updates to some non-MP sample levels
• Any levels that used FPE SCALED entities will need manual rescaling

Editor

• When delete entity in F9, then exit, and return, bitblob would crash
• When press M in F9 mode, now looks at ground, not sky
• Some keyboard map / as ], so added detection of extra code to fix
• Can now exit software even if in F1 help and Quick Start splashes
• Scale is now retained for FPE scaled entities in IDE and F9 mode
• PGUP and PGDN and RETURN now work correctly in F9 mode
• Can now handle all resolutions in 100%, 125% and 150% font sizes
• Clicking TEST GAME from FREE FLIGHT camera mode uses correct XZ
• When using EXTRACT and facing sky, entity no longer disappears
• When lower start marker below terrain, does not make wireframe

Test Level

• When lightmap a legacy level that has LMs, could corrupt geometry
• NOTE: Some levels may need re-lightmapping with latest build
• Lightmapping now works with FPE SCALED entities
• Fixed issue where F9 RETURN might crash on rare occasions
• Ensured F9 key mappings for camera up/down, brush shrink/enlarge

Additions

• Added support for Decals
• Created ‘decal_facing.lua’ to perform decal facing player trick
• Created ‘decal_animate4.fx’ which will animate 4×4 decal animations
• Special DECAL HANDLE field for FPE which allows better selection
• Added new LOST.JPG to TITLESBANK for new Game Over screens
• When run out of lives in Standalone Game, now get Game Over

Game Play

• Running jumps no longer hiccup and instead perform a real jump

Multiplayer

• In MULTIPLAYER modes, all player speed mod fields from gunspec void

 

Signing off

That’s it for this week , don’t forget Lee’s daily blog to keep up with all of the latest in GameGuru development news and we’ll be back next week with lots more exciting updates.

Thanks to you all for your amazing support and see you all soon.

The GameGuru Team

 

We had a great time last week with two big updates adding a lot of requested features. We’ve concentrated on improving the editing experience for all users as well as opening the door for more advanced weapons, something that many of our store artists have been asking for. We expect these additions to start the ball rolling on many exciting store additions soon. You can see a teaser of one of these weapons here.

In addition to these improvements we’ve also adding an exciting co-op mode for team based multiplayer. You can read more on this and details of a competition based on co-op play below.

Competition 1 – The Great Outdoors.

It’s that time again and we’re doubling up this time. Welcome to our 5th and 6th level design competitions. This time we’re taking you to the great outdoors and giving all of our talented users new and old a chance to win $50 or $100 and the possibility for your level to be included in a future release of GameGuru in the process.

This time we are looking for a total of 30 winners. Yes that’s right 30 winners and we are asking you to design the best outdoor maps you can using just stock media. We want to see you create forests, plains, jungles, wastelands, even gardens, anything you can think of that comes under the category The Great Outdoors.

You may choose from 2 map sizes for your entry, we are looking for 20 x small maps and 10 x large maps.

1) Small maps may be of any size below approximately half of the editor area.

Every small map winner will receive $50

2) 10 x Large maps which MUST cover the entire usable editor area.

Every Large map winner will receive $100

How should I design my map?

We don’t want to see cityscapes, that will be something for another time, for now we are challenging you to use media that fits into the following type:

Foliage (trees, flowers, plants, etc).

Rocks (any of the default rocks)

Debris (anything that counts as debris, this DOESN’T include buildings or ruins).

You can sculpt the terrain to include hills, mountains, lakes and rivers).

You can use any of the default Grasses.

You should enclose your maps, preventing the player from leaving the playing area, using water, sculpted terrain, rocks, etc. Feel free to use your imagination for ways to do this.

You MAY not use:

A) Scripts of any kind
B) Characters
C) Any Buildings
D) Any Custom media, except as stated below:

PLEASE DO NOT lightmap your levels, this makes the FPM too large for easy testing.

The one exception to the default media rule for this one, is that users are allowed to submit their own custom terrains. Please include a game ready terrainbank folder with your entry should you want to take advantage of this.

As always,

The Rules

1) You may only use default media that comes with GameGuru

2) You MAY NOT use any other media, custom scripts, music or audio effects. Just the content that ships with GameGuru.

3) You CAN only use the default Skyboxes that ship with GameGuru

4) You MAY use custom terrains as well as those that ship with GameGuru

5) You must either enter your level as Small or Large

7) Please email just the (mapfiles (FPM’s) located in the mapbank folder) to Dave Hawkins at scenecommanderTGC@gmail.com. Remember to include any custom terrain.

Ensure you use the format USER – SIZE – FORUM -COMPETITION5.

e.g thescenecommander-steam-large – competition5 in the subject line.

Entries that do not meet this criteria will be disqualified.

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

8.1) Your real name

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

The map file “FPM” (attached to the email). Map files are stored here; Program Files/Steam/Steamapps/Common/Game Guru/Files/Mapbank

9) All entries must be received by midnight GMT 30th April 2015.

10) This competition IS NOT open to any member of TheGameCreators staff or support team.

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

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

Competition 2 – Co-op fun.

To go hand in hand with our The Great Outdoors competition, we’re also launching a 6th level design competition. This time we’re asking you to create a small and fun co-op game. We’re looking for levels that are designed to be completed by 2 players, working together and providing around 5 minutes of gameplay using just default media.

We’re after 5 winners and we’re offering $250 and 5,000 store points to each winner and a chance for your game to be included in a future release of GameGuru.

What should my game be like?

That’s more or less up to you, but we want you to keep it small and fun. You can choose any genre supported by the default media and use any scripts or audio effects that come with GameGuru.

* You may NOT use any Custom media.
* PLEASE DO NOT lightmap your levels, this makes the FPM too large for easy testing.

The Rules

1) You may only use default media that comes with GameGuru

2) You MAY NOT use any other media, custom scripts, music or audio effects. Just the content that ships with GameGuru.

3) You can only use the default Skyboxes that ship with GameGuru

4) You may only use the terrain textures that ship with GameGuru

5) Please email just the (mapfiles (FPM’s) located in the mapbank folder) to Dave Hawkins at scenecommanderTGC@gmail.com

Ensure you use the format USER FORUM -COMPETITION6.

e.g thescenecommander-steam- competition6 in the subject line.

Entries that do not meet this criteria will be disqualified.

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

6.1) Your real name

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

The map file “FPM” (attached to the email). Map files are stored here; Program Files/Steam/Steamapps/Common/Game Guru/Files/Mapbank

7) All entries must be received by midnight GMT 30th April 2015.

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

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

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

That’s it, please feel free to email me with any questions for either competition and good luck.

From the gallery

Once more we delve into the amazing talent of our users, and the always impressive Rolfy has produced the goods once more. These two screenshots taken from the Steam forums, show not only the power of GameGuru but the diversity of the work being produced.

Greenplace by Rolfy

Humungously huge cave (a multiplayer map) by Rolfy.

From the GameGuru Galleries:

Dojo by Wolf.

Store News

The store is approaching a new milestone, being just slightly short of a very respectable 4000 items available either to buy or for free, a point we are sure to pass in the next day or so.

We are also very pleased to see such a wide range of genres now being supported by our talented artists. This week, we’re taking a look at some of the great construction packs. Let’s have a look at just a small selection of what’s available.

 

 

Medieval Fort Construction Set Vol 1 by SkyWriter – This excellent and versatile pack is ideal for fantasy and historical games as well as serving for such things as post apocalyptic games (fortified towns, etc.).

This great  sci-fi tunnel pack from store artist Kasseyus would be an excellent addition to a media collection. Consisting of 8 sections, these tunnels can be clipped together to create hundreds of variations.

Wizard of Id’s Sci-fi wall pack, is another pack that’s been available for awhile, but may have slipped your notice. These walls span several genres, and although designed with sci-fi in mind they would fit well in near future or post apocalyptic 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?

Artist’s benefits

• You’ll receive up to 70% of all sales revenue earned from your published assets.
• The agreement is non-exclusive so you are free to sell your assets elsewhere.
• Payment is made monthly via PayPal.

How do I sell my assets?

It’s easy to become a seller on the store;

1. Sign up to become a store seller. Click here to be redirected to the seller’s sign up.
2. Follow the easy to use guides on how to prepare your assets
3. Upload your assets for approval
4. Once approved, TheGameCreators will publish your assets live onto the store

Game Guru Updates

V1.00.024

For this release, we made a number of improvements to the editor and we’ve added more weapons features which will enable artists to create more dynamic guns for GameGuru. A new and exciting feature is the Multiplayer co-op support in this version. So lots to get your teeth into!

There’s a big change in the way entities are now placed down. An entity is placed into the scene with a left click, there is no extra copy left on the cursor. If you do want to place multiple copies down then use SHIFT and left click. At any time you can press the Delete key to remove the entity from the mouse. We have implemented this so that the Right Mouse Button is always available for Free Flight mode.

Other Editor changes;

• Allowed free flight mouselook even when entity has been selected by cursor
• When pressing F after moving from center, the view will correctly zoom into current location
• When moving an entity under the terrain, substitute with a wireframe marker so it doesn’t get lost and can be edited
• In right mouse button mode, there’s no longer a shift in the entity attached to the cursor
• The free flight mode is now reset when a new level is loaded
• GameGuru no longer responds to keys when the main IDE does not have focus
• Widget now appears at the point of clicking, not the entity centre
• Added new TUTORIALS menu in main IDE for direct links to getting started videos

Now you can create co-op games with GameGuru! All you need to do is create a level that has eight multiplayer start markers that are all set to the same team. Then add some enemy bot characters and run Multiplayer mode. The game will be hosted and run as a co-op level. When all the enemies are killed then the game will end and you’ll see a results screen to see how well each player did.

We’ve also made it impossible for AI Bots to hurt each other in both single and multiplayer modes.

There are no co-op levels at this time. We will be running a competition within the community very soon to get some made.

The GameGuru Lua scripting language has had these commands added to it;

• GetCoOpMode() – it returns 1 if co-op mode is active.
• GetCoOpEnemiesAlive() – returns the number of enemies still alive in the game

 

• Removed debug log entry when loading LM based levels (loading speed-up)
• Software now saves AI obstacle data generated in test game for faster loading. With this change The Big Escape on one dev PC used to take 72 second to load, now down to 40 seconds
• Added a prompt when pressing E in F9 mode when there are no entities in the level
• When using an entity that has a SCALE value, allow F9 mode to place at the right size
• HUD IMAGE prompt no longer shows when F9 Edit mode is active

• Added extra script logic for melee/zombie attacks, need to now SEE the player
• Changed Zombie scripts so they stop attacking if they cannot see player

• Added VWEAPTEX field to GUNSPEC to provide specific texture for held weapons
• STATUSPANELCODE = 0-colt,1-magnum,2-uzi,3-shotgun,4-rifle,5-rpg,6-grenade,7-bow,8-mace,9-stone,10-sword
• New STATUSPANELCODE=100 will force use of AMMO.PNG and ICON.PNG in gunfolder
• Added zoomaccuracy, zoomaccuracybreathkey, zoomaccuracybreath, zoomaccuracyheld to GUNSPEC
• zoomaccuracy; the amount of swaying the weapon makes during zoom mode
• zoomaccuracybreathkey; the keystate code the weapon detects to steady the zoom accuracy sway
• zoomaccuracybreath; the time in milliseconds the weapon can be steadied in one go
• zoomaccuracyheld; the percentage of steadiness the weapon can be held motionless
• The PUTAWAY sound effect for weapons is no longer cut short when swapping guns
• Weapon Ammo Panel now flashes red in error when weapon is jammed
• When collect weapon with ammo included, fixes double ammo for sharedammo types
• When weapon is on the last bullet, now supports LAST START FIRE + LAST FINISH FIRE
• When entering and exiting zoom with no bullets, EMPTY ZOOMTO/FROM anims now used
• When switching TO/FROM ALT weapon mode, now supports empty variants of animation

 V1.00.25

A recent update to the Steam client broke our multiplayer system. This is now fixed in this latest build.

Also fixed and added tothis version;

• Updated CITYSCAPE entities to reset any ROTY rotations causing odd angles
• Adjusted free flight ANGX cap to 89.999 so transition from G to F smooth
• When repeat a test game, some weapons will put ammo in clip, not in gun
• When using Font at 150%, editor now correctly aligns cursor
• Added ZOOMHOLDBREATH=16 to SETUP.INI to externally control hold breath key
• Changed zoomaccuracybreathkey to zoomaccuracybreathHOLD flag to disable breath
• Added support for ALTICON.PNG and ALTAMMO.PNG in gun folder for status panels
• Added support for DRYFIRE animation for weapons with no bullets to shoot
• Added support for Zooming without available ammo (for scoping an area)
• Added support for plrmovespeedmod, plrturnspeedmod, plrjumpspeedmod in gunspec
• plrmovespeedmod; percentile for player speed when carrying weapon with ammo
• plremptyspeedmod; percentile for player speed when carrying weapon with no ammo
• plrturnspeedmod; percentile for player turning speed when carrying weapon
• plrjumpspeedmod; percentile for player jumping height when carrying weapon
• plrreloadspeedmod; percentile for player reload speed when carrying weapon
• Added MELEE FORCE to gunspec to separately control physics force of melee hits
• Fixed MELEE DAMAGE so it overrides regular DAMAGE of the native weapon
• When jump, weapon animation speed is slowed drastically to avoid mid-air anims
• Replaced VIDEO.MP4 with VIDEO.WMV which is the sole supported video format

 Signing Off

That’s it for all of the latest GameGuru news, as always, don’t forget Lee’s daily blog to keep up with all of the latest in GameGuru development.

Thank you once again for your amazing support and we’ll be back next week with more exciting updates.

The GameGuru Team

I’m sure that many of you will have noticed by now that GameGuru has received a massive update just before the weekend, and we’re very pleased with the feedback so far. This key update began work on the much requested free flight editor, opening up a whole world of editing options. You can read about this, and all the other tweaks and fixes a little later, but for now let’s see what else has been going on in the world of GameGuru.

 

Wastelanders by Anonymous.

From the Galleries

Every week we like to scan the galleries to see what our talented users are up to, and as we’ve come to expect, we’re weren’t disappointed with the excellent offerings this week.

 

Multiplayer map by Roger Enderle

 

Gurutown by E30Legend

 

Book of Souls by Rolfy

 

Store News

Once again, we’ve looking at some of the excellent new media on the store and well as refreshing your memories on some of the great media that you might have missed.

From artist Dagored this beautiful canal side pack has a huge range of uses and fits together to allow users to create an endless variation of water networks.

From popular artist BSP, this lovely looking forest pack would be an excellent addition for any media collection.

This pipes pack from from artist Skywriter will add extra atmosphere to a wide range of games.

This demolition pack from KenCharlesLong would be an excellent addition for those looking for media for war torn or modern day games. It’s also great value as this pack is FREE. Why not grab it now and have a look around the store at the same time.

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?

Artist’s benefits

• You’ll receive up to 70% of all sales revenue earned from your published assets.
• The agreement is non-exclusive so you are free to sell your assets elsewhere.
• Payment is made monthly via PayPal.

How do I sell my assets?

It’s easy to become a seller on the store;

1. Sign up to become a store seller. Click here to be redirected to the seller’s sign up.
2. Follow the easy to use guides on how to prepare your assets
3. Upload your assets for approval
4. Once approved, TheGameCreators will publish your assets live onto the store

As many of you will recall, we started our user of the month competition last month. This carries and 5,000 points prize and a special one month only badge. This is awarded to the user who we felt has been the greatest benefit to the GameGuru Community and we have to say, that it was a tough month to judge as several users really shone for their helpfulness, politeness and generally making our community forums a better place to be.  This months winner is:

Avram.

Congratulations, to Avram, you can see a great example for last year of his helpfulness here. This user has also constantly been available to answer questions and provide scripting examples. Many thanks from TheGameCreators for your amazing community spirit.

GameGuru update news

Free Flight mode in the main editor!

We have listened to you feedback and added lots of new exciting features which we’re sure you’ll enjoy, including;

• Free flight editing mode
• Story zone for playing videos
• Improved Widget controls
• Multiplayer maps from the recent competition
• Import .3DS files (Sketchup Pro & Others)

IMPORTANT!
With the introduction of free flight mode we have had to change the way some controls work. The main one is the use of right mouse button to push terrain down, this is now operated with left mouse button and the SHIFT key. Press F1 in the main editor to view all the quick key information.

• When in entity mode, you can hold right mouse button to mouselook to view
• When in entity mode, you can hold RMB and use W,A,S,D keys to move around in 3D
• When moving in free flight camera mode, press SHIFT to speed up movement
• When moving in free flight camera mode, press CONTROL to slow down movement
• To exit free flight camera mode in the IDE, simply press G
• To re-enter free flight camera mode in the IDE, simply press F (or use right click and mouse look)
• Fixed issue of more distant entities being selected in main IDE editor when in Free Flight view
• Fixed issue of free flight camera going under terrain ground height
• Pressing F (free flight) from fresh run no longer messes up camera
• Added limiter to free flight X angle so camera can avoid insane gimbal lock

• Widget Scaling of entities now avoids the ‘bounce effect’ for more control
• Increased the relative speed of widget scaling for larger quicker scale changes
• Added ratio based scaling to the XYZ mode of the Widget scaling
• Biaxis handles and pointers of the widget now always face camera angle
• When the widget core is out of the screen, the menu is auto hidden
• Widget XY and YZ biaxis controls no longer shift when single clicked
• Switched off detection of entities when in right mouse button mode
• When moving, rotating or scaling using widget, UNDO and REDO now reverse last change
• When clicking XYZ scale widget, entity no longer shifts size when clicked

• Removed OPTIONAL VISUALS folder from entity properties – not used any more
• When the user clicks ADD NEW ENTITY, instantly default to BARRELS instead of blank page
• Changed Add New Entity to only expand top level CHARACTERS and BUILDINGS folders
• Prevented a crash relating to entity highlighter system
• Added support for basic importing of 3DS model files (Sketchup Pro & Others)
• Tested Importer SKETCHUP->COLLADA->ONLINECONV->X
• Selected entities no longer rotate when numerics 1-6 used in entity properties
• When return from zoomed-in properties view, now restores clipping if in TAB ‘inside’ mode
• Can no longer highlight an entity when cursor outside of editing window
• F1 in IDE editor mode now works with new more responsive key detection system
• Right Mouse + SHIFT now used for Alternative Terrain Editing modes
• Slowed down the default raise/lower speed for terrain editing (no more SHIFT)
• When click right mouse button without moving, cursor no longer jumps
• Now remembers last subfolder when adding new entity with new tree view tweak
• When select New Level, free flight view settings and mode are reset
• “M” key now hides/shows markers from view
• Grid system now works in the vertical (use page up/page down)
• When placing entities, they find will find the best floor position (not just the terrain).
• Added STORY ZONE to Markers category to allow video play back in game (WMV format only)

Now you can add story zones to play videos at key points during single player games.

• Adjusted Zombie FPEs to ensure all characters foot plant properly on ground
• Tested INVMOUSE=1 in SETUP.INI to ensure ‘inverted mouse’ feature works fine
• Speed of player (set in player properties) now affects camera and footfall sync

• Confirmed an issue that caused some entities not to occlude lightmap now work
• Updated pre-bake entity renderer so HIGHEST produces better dynamic shadows

• Added weapons and ammo in F9 mode will now activate and work when exit F9 mode
• Added code to ensure newly added characters in F9 mode come to life in game
• When characters die, then press F9 twice, ragdoll characters stay dead

• FORCEZOOMOUT no longer depends on SIMPLEZOOM value in GUNSPEC, and will force unzoom
• Re-fixed the issue of the dry fire repeating when gun shot finished
• Fixed issue causing gun to freeze/disable when repeat test game and select again
• Improved the BRASS45 textures ejected by the Colt 1911 thanks to ErrantAI
• When specify a weapon under Start Marker, no longer wipes out ammo statistics

In this new build you’ll find the winning multiplayer maps from the recent map making competition. We had a blast playing them and encourage you to try them out. If you need to link up with players then please join the GameGuru Multiplayer Steam Group here;
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/GameGuruTGCMP

LIMBO, one of the new multiplayer maps in this build.

• New multiplayer map: Construction Destruction
• New multiplayer map: Firing Range
• New multiplayer map: Hide and Seek
• New multiplayer map: LIMBO
• New multiplayer map: The Crossing

Signing off

The team turns it attention to the next week of development now. You can expect some great features in the next release, including an exciting co-op play in the form of players vs characters. While in the other corner of the development ring, you will be seeing lots more editor fixes and some tweaks to existing features.

As always keep an eye on Lee’s blog for daily updates and we’ll see you next week.

The Reloaded Team

Welcome to the latest GameGuru weekly news. This has been a busy time behind the scenes with some very exciting and much requested features being added to the internal build.  Due to the size and scope of these additions they are still undergoing a lot of internal testing to ensure that we can release a stable release to you all. We’re sure you won’t be disappointed and will find that the editing and gaming experience is transformed for you all. To whet your appetite here’s a sneak peek of the 3D edit mode;

The scene below was created using some of the new editor functions in around 20 minutes, demonstrating how the new improvements will transform your developments and speed up creation.

In other work, we’re continuing to refine a new Multiplayer co-op feature, allowing the use of BOT characters vs you and your friends! This is a very exciting feature that we’ve had a lot of fun developing and testing.  We expect to be able to feed that out to you all later this week once we’ve completed internal testing.

Looking for Multiplayer Lobbies?

Do you love the GameGuru multiplayer games, but are finding that you can’t get enough of it? This new Steam group set up by a GameGuru user Kravenwolf is here to help.

You can find all the details here about the currently hosted times, or you can set up your own games and arrange times to meet up with other players for some multiplayer fun.

Don’t forget that the Development team are also around at various times, so you might even find yourself taking us on at our own game and even get a chance to chat & blow us up!

From the Gallery

We’re pleased once again to share a great looking work in progress screenshot. This week from Steam Artwork by GameGuru user djlslee.  Twin worlds town really shows off GameGuru and we’ll be keeping and eye on its future progress.

Store News

This week we’re continuing our look back at some of the store media you may have forgotten about as well as showcasing some of the great new models that have been uploaded in the last week.

From BSP, this excellent weapons back is always worth a reminder. So, if you’re looking for some new weapons, this is a great place to start.

From Dvader, something a little different, this script which can be attached to any dynamic entity allows you to add pick up and carry them around.

From the amazing talent of Gtox, come these wonderful animated insects, including butterfly, dragonfly and some agressive bee and wasp models. They are suitable for all genres making them a must have for all game makers.

The Game Creator Store

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?

Artist’s benefits

• You’ll receive up to 70% of all sales revenue earned from your published assets.
• The agreement is non-exclusive so you are free to sell your assets elsewhere.
• Payment is made monthly via PayPal.

How do I sell my assets?

It’s easy to become a seller on the store;

1. Sign up to become a store seller. Click here to be redirected to the seller’s sign up.
2. Follow the easy to use guides on how to prepare your assets
3. Upload your assets for approval
4. Once approved, TheGameCreators will publish your assets live onto the store

GameGuru update news

A stability update (V1.00.022) was released last week. This week will see a huge new build – so expect something very special in the few days!

So, what’s new?

GameGuru V1.00.022

So, it’s time for us to sign off again for this week. As always you can keep up with Lee’s blog here for all the latest news and once again we thank you for your support and ask that you keep the feedback coming as it’s helping us to develop the game maker that you all want.

Until next week, enjoy your game making.

The GameGuru Team

 

Welcome to the start of a new week and we’re pleased to report some great progress.  You can read below about the amazing work our development team have crafted and the advancements made over the last seven days.

We also report on the latest GameGuru competition and announce the results.

We’re highlighting the work of some of our talented users, including some gallery screenshots of work in progress games and a great video.

You’ll also read of more exciting store news and of the latest updates as well as a reminder of some of the work of our longer standing artist.

So, without further ado…

Competition

The 4th GameGuru level design competition has drawn to a close and this was our most exciting and well subscribed of them all to date. As always, this was a difficult event to judge as we receive a lot of high quality entries. In the end, the team whittled the entries down to five winners. All winners receive $200 cash and 5,000 GameGuru Store points. We’ll be contacting the winners very soon with their prizes!

Although there is no direct prizes for positions, we felt that the winning entries should be in the following order.

FIRST Prize!- Construction Destruction – By Susysyay

 

We loved this level for its great design and well thought out entity placement, it plays really well when there are 4 or more players running around this construction site themed level. A good solid design and it was clear a lot of care and attention went into it’s design.

 

2nd – Bridge Over Troubled Water – By Wizard of id

An exciting level of criss crossing bridges and tunnels with a central pool area that can be walked through.

 

 

3rd – Limbo – By Slaur3n

A very clever and sureal level, featuring floating platforms and narrow slopes. The style of this game is unlike anything we’ve seen before. It was enjoyed by many of the development team.

 

 

4th – Firing Range – By Kravenwolf

This tightly packed level leads to some very exciting and fast paced gameplay. A clever use of box crates makes for a very different atmosphere. We had a lot of fun and laughed lots as RPGs took down many poor guys in and among the tight corners.

 

 

5th – Hide & Seek – By E30Legend

Our final choice uses the players flashlight to great effect which accompanied with some good use of spooky sound effects makes this level very atmospheric.

 

Congratulations to everyone and many thanks to you all for entering, you’ve given us all a lot of fun as well as helping to develop GameGuru. The winning levels will soon be available in an updated version of GameGuru so you can all enjoy playing them.

 

Guru Lee on Twitch!

Last Friday our CEO Lee Bamber was part of a live stream on Twitch that focused on GameGuru.

If you missed the stream and would like to view it in your own time then you can here.

From the Forums

This excellent demonstration from GameGuru user Dvader really caught our eye. If you have aspirations to create a role playing game you could should look at what this talented user has achieved.

From the galleries

As always, we love seeing what our GameGuru users have achieved and this week is no exception. These two shots from our GameGuru forums really impressed us and are two more that we’ll be keeping a close eye on.

Project ICE – Cube by VRG

My own prison cit.CREED by JC_Leon

Store news

The store continues to go from strength to strength with some excellent new uploads this week. We’re also taking the opportunity to highlight some media that’s been on the store a while that you may have missed.

WWII Asset Pack #3 by BSP

Featuring fourteen World War 2 themed vehicles, including US and German combat vehicles,  a great steam train with rolling stock and several burnt out vehicles to add that extra layer of quality to your games.

Logs 13 ways by Pirate Myke

Here’s one that may have slipped your notice but this is such a useful pack that can be used for a massive range of genres from medieval through to the far future we thought it worth reminding you about it. The packs has thirteen log variants from single logs, piles of cut wood and neat stacks. This pack complements the default foliage and would be a great addition to any developers library.

Models so Far by JForthDesigns

Another pack that’s been on the store for awhile and is worth looking into if you want some great value scifi media. Featuring a large range of animated futuristic machines, static gun turrets, crates and boxes as well as a few other items from other genres.

GameGuru Foundations by Valuable Assets to accompany his Guru Buildings Volume 1 pack. If you’ve not seen the buildings pack, we recommend you check it out, but even if you don’t own the pack you can download the foundations pack for the great price of FREE . The image above demonstrates how well the 2 packs merge and both are great for single and multiplayer games.

 

Want to sell your own media?

The Game Creator Store

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?

Artist’s benefits

• You’ll receive 70% of all sales revenue earned from your published assets.
• The agreement is non-exclusive so you are free to sell your assets elsewhere.
• Payment is made monthly via PayPal.

How do I sell my assets?

It’s easy to become a seller on the store;

1. Sign up to become a store seller. Click here to be redirected to the seller’s sign up.
2. Follow the easy to use guides on how to prepare your assets
3. Upload your assets for approval
4. Once approved, TheGameCreators will publish your assets live onto the store

Update news

We’re very pleased once again to have been able to announce another three GameGuru updates since last week. We’ve listened  to your feedback and are targeting the areas that concern  you the most. As a result, the last week has addressed some bugs, tweaked some other areas and continued to work and release multiplayer Team Deathmatch mode – a particularly exciting and well received feature. We joined users on Friday night for two hours of fun gameplay and had a great time doing so.

So, what’s changed?

GameGuru V1.00.019

GameGuru V1.00.021

Signing off

That’s it for another week, still lots to do but the team is in great spirits, and as always we are grateful and encouraged by your support. Don’t forget that as always you can keep up with more or less daily update via Lee’s development blog.

You can also have your say or keep up with what other users are up to via the GameGuru or Steam forums.

Until next week, enjoy creating!

The GameGuru team

 

Welcome again to the GameGuru weekly news.

We have more updates to report as we’ve continued with a wave of improvements. Two updates last week with each one aimed at improving some very important areas. We also report on an exciting new multiplayer feature coming very soon. So…

Multiplayer mayhem teams up!

One the the most fun additions in the last week, both for the development team to add as well as play test has been the new Team Deathmatch feature. No longer will users be restricted to single player carnage, now you’ll be able to join a team to fight it out. Supporting up to 2 teams of 4, the default setting will be the first team to reach 30 kills being declared the winner.  Level designers will also be able to toggle friendly fire for those who feel their level isn’t dangerous enough.

We’re on the final stages of testing now and expect this great addition to be with all users early any day this week!

 

Tutorials

To support our multiplayer development, Rick has created this very useful guide to hosting and joining multiplayer games, so click below to learn everything you’ve ever needed to joining the multiplayer fun in GameGuru. The servers are open 24/7 and users are often online hosting or waiting to participate in a game, so why not get involved?

Don’t forget you can see all of the other tutorials created by GameGuru users as well as the development team here.

 

 

 

Now that GameGuru has gone live on Steam and is in the hands of many capable users, we wanted to take a moment and unveil a new reward for the GameGuru Community: User of the Month Badge!
This monthly Award is bestowed upon one user in the Community who has shown not only exceptional knowledge of GameGuru but has also got involved more deeply with the GameGuru community as a whole. The bearer of this Badge will be someone to look up to, someone who is not only open to any and all questions but also willing to help users whenever they can.

The benefits of User of the Month
1) A unique badge (next to your avatar), to show the GameGuru community your elevated status, dedication and support of GameGuru developers.
2) 5,000 GameGuru Store Points!

The User of the Month will be chosen by the TheGameCreators Team each month. The holder of this Badge will be selected because of their consistent and exceptional behavior with other community members as well as their GameGuru knowledge and unending desire to help others. There can be only one badge holder at a time, so the torch will be passed at the end of each month to the next User of the Month. We hope you will join us, in congratulating each month’s winner of this important Community Award!

This months Winner is….

SmallG for his/her excellent and continued support of the community and valued scripting advice, we will be contacting them shortly to arrange the 5,000 store points.

Here is a small example of the helpfulness they have provided to the community.

Congratulations SmallG and many thanks for everything you do for our community.

From the Galleries

This week we’ve chosen two screenshots from the Steam Artwork Zone, we’re always very impressed but these two stood out as something extra special, one as a beautiful screenshot and the other as some very impressive concept art.

An amazing screenshot: Night City Docks – By Rolfy proves yet again why he is becoming a GameGuru master!

The next contribution is by Nameguy and is a wonderful use of the Steam artwork feature. This user has created a great concept map for their planned game, you can also see some screenshots from the work so far on the Steam gallery.

From the store

A lot of new media has been uploaded over the last few weeks, some of which we’ve already showcased, but we thought we’d give you a little more information about some of these great packs and assets by showing you some screenshots of the them in situ.

Abandoned Terra-forming Plant by Wolf

Wolf says:

This Model pack contains everything you need to design futuristic sci-fi colonies /camps.
They fit well in GameGurus’ terrain system and are gorgeous to design complex skylines.
The Pack features enough variation to even create little sci-fi towns.
This pack has leaned on retro-futuristic designs from the 70s and 80s but I kept it contemporary enough to fit in a more modern vision of the future.
Please note that while the focus of the pack was on worn and rusty assets I have also included a large amount of clean entities for games that are set in a brighter future!

World War 2 assets pack #2 by BSP

Part of BSP’s growing range of WW2 themed media, this pack is focused on indoor items. A total of 71 models, including bunker & chateau furniture and paintings, which you will find useful in not only World War 2 styled games, but a large number of more modern genres.

ErrantAI has a number of great packs on the store, the scene above was created from 3 of his packs, Billards Pack, Snack Attack Pack and his latest, Fibre Glass furniture pack.

All are excellent value and are valuable resource for any GameGuru user.

The 4th level design competition

As a reminder to all you budding level designers out there, the 4th level design competition draws to a close this Wednesday 18th March at midnight GMT.

We’ve already had a number of entries, but if you’re leaving it to the last minute to submit your level, don’t forget the deadline. So for your chance to win $200 and 5,000 store points and for the possibility  that your level be included in a future release of GameGuru, get creating now. We are looking to award prizes for the 5 best maps; so there’s several chances to win.

A final reminder of the rules;

The Rules

1) You may use any default media that comes with GameGuru.

2) You MAY NOT use any other media, custom scripts, music or audio effects. Just the content that ships with GameGuru.

3) You may only use the default Skyboxes that ship with GameGuru

4) You may only use the default terrains that ship with GameGuru

5) You can create your level for between 2 and 8 players. We’d advise you to avoid making levels too big and also too small.

6) You can only use the default weapons that ship with GameGuru. Note that weapons and ammo re-spawn during multi-player games so don’t go crazy placing down lots of weapons and ammo.

7) Please email just the (mapfiles (FPM’s) located in the mapbank folder) to Dave Hawkins at scenecommanderTGC@gmail.com

Ensure you use the format USER – FORUM -COMPETITION4.

e.g thescenecommander-steam-competition4 in the subject line.

Entries that do not meet this criteria will be disqualified.

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

8.1  Your real name

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

8.3  The map file “FPM” (attached to the email).

Map files are stored here; Program Files/Steam/Steamapps/Common/Game Guru/Files/Mapbank

9) All entries must be received by midnight GMT 18th March 2015.

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

 

What’s new in GameGuru since last week?

V1.00.0018

• Ensured weapons that do not specify GUN texture internal or external assume GUN_D.DDS
• Fixed weapon jam logic so single shot weapons do not jam when LMB held down
• Moved MELEE KEY and SWITCHTOALT to SETUP.INI and disabled from GUNSPEC.TXT
• Muzzle Spot Flash now happens in FRONT of weapon, not at camera position
• Muzzle Spot Flash color now taking colour RGB from GUNSPEC.TXT as required
• Weapons now correctly dry fire when they run out of ammo or get jammed
• Sunset Island multiplayer level has been updated so players do not start too high of the floor
• Fixed issue of extracted entity switching from static to dynamic
• Fixed issue of rockets and ray casts going through entities on subsequent multiplayer sessions
• Fixed rabbit characters so they no longer sink into the floor
• All string entries in entity properties clipped to 63 characters
• Gun decals for Store and custom weapons are now used in multiplayer
• Light maps in a multiplayer map no longer cause a crash (light maps are not used)
• Fixed a rare crash bug relating to distance of entities

V1.00.0019

• Fixed an issue in the importer where the mouse would disappear sometimes when saving
• When hosting a multiplayer map containing light maps, the system will now use them and show them in the game.
• On initial spawn in a multiplayer game you can no longer invisibly move
• Added polish to end of a multiplayer game to fade out neatly
• Fixed an error relating to a missing image

Looking to talk to fellow developers?

Don’t forget we also have a community forum. We encourage you to sign up and become part of our community. We’re actively developing the forums to make them easy to use, great for sharing and a place to collaborate together. So if you’re looking for some modelling advice, some scripting assistance or just want to see what other GameGuru users are up to, this is a great place to visit.

Signing out

Here we are again, bringing another weekly update to a close.  For us here at TheGameCreators development this week will be divided into two. One will be focused on fixing lots of small niggles users have raised with us since GameGuru launched while on the other side we’ll be working more on multiplayer. So we hope to have some nice treats for both schools of GameGuru enthusiasts. You can expect these and other updates during this week.

As always don’t forget Lee blog in it’s new location here and thank you all for your awesome support.

So, until then, enjoy GameGuru and keep telling us what you’re up to and what you’d like to see as GameGuru develops.

The GameGuru team