To Find Gamefroot
In your browser address bar type http://gamefroot.com/ or search Gamefroot with Google.
Gamefroot - Play/Make
1. Click Play Games to play some of the games designed by other users.
2. Click Make Games to start learning about how to make your own game.
Logging in to Gamefroot
Its easy login using your School Google Account.
1. Sign in to Google using your school email and password. For your username use your student ID and add "gf" in front of it.
2. Click on the Sign In With Google button on the Gamefroot website.
Learning the Gamefroot GUI (Graphical User Interface)
Gamefroot has a number of features that need to be learnt before you can effectively start making games. All these features are explain at the Gamefroot knowledge base: http://gamefroot.com/knowledgebase/ .
Gamefroot Menus
Resources: Resources menu option: This panels allows the user to access a variety of resources. The How To resources are short videos.
To Save a Game: use the File menu.
Script editor/Level editor: The script editor allows the user to edit or add scripts to the selected asset. The level editor allows the user to change properties and add to the graphical design of the game.
Assets/ Play buttons: assets allows addition assets not available in the marketplace to be added to the users account. Play plays the current game.
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Game properties/ Game objects/ Scripts/ Marketplace: These four buttons access different features of the game. Try clicking them to find out what they do.
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Viewing screen/ layers: the viewing screen allows the user to adjust what they can see using the viewing screen. The layers are important for isolating parts of the graphical part of the game.
Tools: these are the basic tools used for dragging and positioning sprites, using colour, erasing, moving, and changing settings. |
REMEMBER refer to the knowledgebase if you are unsure how to do something http://gamefroot.com/knowledgebase/