If there’s one thing the this community likes, it’s gaming. Sure, we’ve got groovy options like Frets on Fire and Battle for Wesnoth to scratch our gaming itch but, face it, the FOSS community needs more open source games. If you’ve got a great idea for a game don’t wait for someone else to make it for you, do it yourself with Construct.
Construct, an open source project hosted here at SourceForge, is a completely free DirectX game creator IDE for Windows. It was conceived by three full-time students based in the UK and averages at least one new release a month since it was registered a little over a year ago.
A lot of people think it takes a lot of advanced skills to create a computer-based game, but Construct is approachable even for beginners. It’s visually-based UI makes creating a game as easy as putting together a presentation with IMPRESS. If you’ve got mad programming skills, you can use Python scripting to create your masterpiece.
Construct team member Ashley Gullen says, “Without SourceForge, Construct certainly couldn’t exist, since you’re hosting all our code on CVS, our documentation via the MediaWiki hosted app, and most importantly, the downloads, which get through well over one hundred gigabytes of bandwidth a month. Without your hosting, it’d be impossible to host our project anywhere. None of us have any money for a server with that kind of bandwidth!”
Thanks, Ashley! You guys rock, too!