I'm part of a team of people interested in making the first of several games. I've used ren'py before to make visual novels, however, we are interested in making our game in such a way that we can get it out in as many ways as possible- like ios, pc, mac, android, nook and xbox live market place, to name some possibilities. We have our ideas set and are already working on a script and artwork. What would be a good way to get this out? We're open to looking into a variety of possible solutions, but aren't sure where to start. We do have adobe flash, but we aren't sure how easy or difficult it would be to convert a flash into an game across platforms. Again, we are open to other systems, but since this would be our first commercial game, we don't have too much of a budget.
We want players to be able to save, interact with the characters, and have conditions- by that I mean that if they click on this object here, it will effect their options here. Or, if like a dating sim, they earn a certain amount of a certain stat, like intelligence for example, new possibilities or events might open up for them.
Can anyone give us some advice? I'm the computer literate one and have been designated in charge of this aspect of putting our game together.
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We've looked into Game Maker, actually, and are considering it, however, to be able to make a cross platform game, you need to purchase the Master version which is $500, so we want to learn about all our options before hand.
While we do intend on making a good fun game, we want it to be simple and 2D- like most app games. We want to rely more on story, characters and player interaction to make it a strong game, rather than complex coding, graphics, etc. There are some really fun games out there that are actually pretty simple when you think about it, and since those are the sorts of games we like, those are what we'd like to make.It would be primarily story/text based with 2d art, 2d animations but with character interactions and such.
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