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Hey everyone,

I hope you’re having an awesome day. I’m excited to tell you about a really cool game making platform we’ve been pouring the last two years into. It’s called Gameleon! It’s a cloud based game editor and publishing platform that we’d really like to get some feedback on.

Why is it so exciting? Well, let’s put it like this. Have you ever wanted to create your own game, and publish it online for thousands of people to play? Well, you can’t really do that without some programming experience, technical know how, dedicated hardware and much more.

You’ll probably want to know straight away what kind of games you can make with Gameleon, and to keep the answer short, you can make 2D and isometric MMORPG’s and similar games ( single player RPG’s, hack and slash games, point and click adventures and so on). In fact, to showcase this exact point we’ve taken an iconic RPG - Diablo 2 - and re-created its first few levels.

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It tooks us two days to extract models and textures from the original Diablo and import them into our editor. Check out the result for yourselves: and remember this is in a browser!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31tkQ4tp_2c

We designed it with user-friendliness in mind, and specifically tailored it to people who are non-technical in such a way that it doesn’t require any knowledge of programming languages,  animation, etc. It’s very intuitive and 100% visual: everything is done with a drag and drop interface, and the scripting and AI behaviors and such are all pretty easy.

The finished editor will also have an Asset Market, where you can upload assets made for your games and auction them to others (or give them away for free). This means that not only game creators will want to use Gameleon, but also artists and programmers, sound designers and recorders, who will be able to get a buck out of helping people with bits and pieces to make their own games.

We’ve entered open beta recently and have opened up the beta version editor to the world. We’d really like to get your feedback on this.

We’ve made a quick tutorial video to showcase the creation process using a quick, basic 2D map. Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T1MBu8qJEc

You can access the live editor at http://editor.gameleon.co/

In the left hand side of the interface there are resources and links to get you started: you’ll find maps and skins to start making maps for the beta, as well as links to the community and to the contact form, videos and more.  We’ve tried to make it so that you have an easy time getting started.

When we started out making Gameleon, we had a vision: to reinvent how the world creates and consumes online multiplayer games. To take game making from the elite few big companies and make it accessible to the vast majority of gamers out there. To crowdsource game making, if you will. We want to democratize game making, and we need you to do this!

If you like what you’ve read so far, please, gives us a hand and test out the editor! We’re excited to get your feedback and suggestions.

Contacts us: [email protected]
Website: www.gameleon.co
Facebook: http://goo.gl/Ey2bTO
Twitter: www.twitter.com/GameleonMain
Beta Editor Link: www.editor.gameleon.co

Other programmers have asked us why should they use a tool like this,because by doing it, all their hard work won't matter. That is wrong!
You can use the editor to make your work easier, but remember that Gameleon is Open Source! That means you can change the code,program it even further an create something awesome :D
Just think at our editor as an accelerator tool for programmers and as a full game creator tool for people without programming skills

Hey, this is actually pretty cool! Looks a bit rudimentary, but cool!

Thank you!
Well,we are a small team of 4 people and we are trying our best to make it easy to use and bug-free in the first place. In the future we will probably have a more polished version :P

After showing you how to import 3D models from either Maya, 3D Studio Max or Blender, we want to show you another way to import assets into Gameleon: .gif images.The cool bit about .gifs is that they’re already animated and they are an abundant and convenient way to store moving images,so why not use them in Gameleon and make our work easier?

The link below will take you on our web site where you can find the complete tutorial
http://www.gameleon.co/platform/cloud-game-editor/introducing-world-of-warcraft-model-and-gif-importing-in-gameleon

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Some good news!
After winning the 4th place at Intel Business Challenge Europe and securing a place in the competition for the grand prize at Intel Business Challenge Global that will be held in California, Gameleon is proud to announce 2 new big events:

Microsoft BizSpark Plus!
A very exclusive startup development program by the most prestigious software multinational in the world,Microsoft gave us free software and support, developer tools, and training to build apps & scale our business.  Not only that, BizSpark offers technology to get us in the cloud and free access to Windows Stores and free promotion to the global BizSpark community.

Webit Congress Startup Challenge!
834 startups applied for the Global Webit StartUpChallenge from all around the globe - Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Middle East and Australia. Gameleon had a huge success and won the semi-finals,along with 24 other talented teams.
http://webitcongress.com/en/2013/startup-semi-finalists.html

Next stop: Istanbul and California!

Meanwhile,we added new features in the editor and we will release new video tutorials about quest editor,achievement editor and other great stuff.

Hi, it's me again :D

I wanted to update you with our latest tutorial : How to create quests using Gameleon.
You can find the video over here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ8l5l3fPRY or here http://www.gameleon.co/media#!prettyPhoto[gal]/7/
and we will also add a written guide of how to do it by Monday.

We will soon have video tutorials for achievements, bag and loot editor too.
Enjoy!

Hi guys,

We have released a new video tutorial about How to create Achievements using Gameleon
Check it out! :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb24eJC2idQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb24eJC2idQ)

We've already presented you our editor, we've encouraged you to check it out and tell us your opinions,but now it is time for you to play with it!

Gameleon is now live!
The platform already comes with assets and themes built in, so you can start playing with the Editor and creating content right away, exploring it’s built-in content and creating new ones with ease.

We've also implemented a new system: each action in Gameleon is rewarded with points that unlock new and exciting content to make games with.

We’re proud to have received quite a bit of recognition for the innovative ideas behind its power and simplicity, such as the “Innovation in Internet, Mobile and Software Computing Prize” at the Intel Global Challenge 2013 in Berkeley (as well as Best Pitch) or the IXIA Innovation Award in 2012. We’re also proud of our partnerships with Mozilla (through their WebFWD program) and Microsoft’s BizSpark Plus, who have helped us in our efforts to create a better game-making experience.



For those of you who are not up to date with information about Gameleon,here is a quick summary:

Bucharest, Romania - Gameleon, the cloud-based platform for making games, has finally launched! Our game editor is a fast , easy and fun way to create your very own games from scratch and publish them online. It doesn’t require any programming skills or experience on your behalf. Like a Wordpress for games, your work is saved in the cloud so you can make and play games from any device and any place.

With Gameleon you’ll immediately start making your own game world, whichever it may be. Whether a high fantasy sword-and-sorcery adventure or a science fiction exploration game, or a naval warfare game, you’ll find the Editor easy to use and its features intuitive. It’s flexible enough to accommodate a variety of gameplay types, letting you build your own elements like achievements, quests, player races/species, classes, spells and abilities, dungeons, battlegrounds, trading and crafting, live chat - you name it.

Everything is done visually in Gameleon. Its smart interface relies on simple interactions like dragging and dropping, ticking checkboxes or connecting input and output. You create maps by easily shaping polygons, NPC’s and objects are dragged and dropped onto the map and scripting, and AI behavior and spell creation are through a simple event tree.

Gameleon relies on the very latest and best of HTML5 technology. Wide compatibility across a great number of platforms (tablets, laptops, PC’s, Mac’s etc) ensures that the editor and its games will run in any browser from any compatible device. Not only does that make your games accessible to vast number of players, but you’ll never need third party plugins, additional downloads or API’s to create or consume content with Gameleon.

Our technology also removes the concern for storage and distribution. Once your game is created, all you have to do is hit the Publish button and you and thousands others will be playing it within seconds!

The game Editor is a collaborative experience as well - users can trade for assets and increase their creative pool. Also, each action in Gameleon is rewarded with points that unlock new and exciting content to make games with.


Gameleon

twitter: @gameleonmain
[email protected]

I love seeing more and more of these web-based tools and engines popping up. Never bet against the open web!