The Unfolding Engine: Paint a Game
The Unfolding Engine: Paint a Game is a new paradigm of Metroidvania 2.5D game making software. That allows you to make the content of your game while you are playing it! The entire software is designed around allowing you to make and share worlds, share tools, and levels. All in real time.
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December 3, 2018
7 years and 244 days ago
Steam Reviews
Mostly Positive29 reviews79.3%
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Welcome to The Unfolding Engine: Paint a Game.
The Unfolding Engine: Paint a Game is a new paradigm of Metroidvania 2.5D game making software. That allows you to make the content of your game while you are playing it! The entire software is designed around allowing you to make and share worlds, share tools, and levels. All in real time. Its streamlined to build beautiful landscapes. One click 2.5D placement makes placing down parallaxes as easy as ever, to placing down Dialogue trees with visualisations that allow you to create complex dialogue systems. Place down sounds and create dynamic rich soundscapes. Place down platforms into the work and immediately jump onto or off them. It has side features like the ability to make incremental mechanics as well as rpg mechanics.
The Unfolding Engine provides all the assets needed to build all of the graphics and music you would need to be finally be able to build your metroidvania 2.5D dream game, and for those who are wanting more, the software allows for content to be added in easily.
Features.
- One Click 2.5D Placement.
- Open World Engine.
- Steam Workshop implementation of assets and worlds.
- The ability to make metroidvania games
- Lighting effects.
- Dynamic Sound effects .
- One Click Door pla[cement.
- The Mossgrown Asset Kit containing an array of landscapes and vegetation.
- Continual updates.
- Incremental Mechanics.
- Incremental Maker.
- and much more
For those in Modding communities, the software and the works from it are designed to be modded by communities of people.
Planned Features
- Online support.
- Group Modding Projects.
- More stable builds
- Skeletal Animations
- Armour and Equipment
- Weapon combat
- and much more
