FPS Creator

FPS Creator is a commercial application developed by The Game Creators that allows rapid and easy creation of first-person shooter video games for the PC without any programming. Users can create a game with up to 50 levels and build it as a standalone executable.
FPS Creator uses a drag-and-drop system in which the user can select entities such as walls, floors, ceilings, doors and windows to create a level. This level can then be populated by entities such as furniture, desk objects, enemies, weapons and pick-ups. Light-markers can be used to place lights of which the colour and range can be defined, and true lightmapping has recently become available with a newly integrated tool created by the same developers. Zones can be defined that act to activate an event when a player enters them, such as damaging the player, entering a story zone (which is a cutscene) or winning the level. Multiplayer is also supported, although the same game cannot have a single-player mode.
FPI Script
FPS Creator uses a simple trigger-based artificial intelligence language known as FPI Script, which was created exclusively for FPS Creator. Entities use Finite state machines - that is, they use a predetermined set of actions reacting to a predetermined set of states. The language consists of a simple if/then syntax, and a pre-defined list of conditional statements and commands. Through the use of scripting, users have created many scripts that can go from simple AI to advanced aally scripts.
Development
FPS Creator has produced regular updates to try and combat any bugs and on the 17th January 2008 The Game Creators announced the next three updates. 1.15 is currently the latest update and fixes many of the problems with FPSC.
The game engine - written in DarkBASIC Professional - is open source and may be compiled with the support of a few additional plugins.
FPS Creator X10
A new version of FPS Creator, entitled X10 was released in late 2007. This version introduced a number of features including realistic water with refractive and reflective effects, as well as improved AI and physics. Many of their new scripts have been adapted by their other game creation engine called Dark Basic Pro. This version is only compatible with Windows Vista and a limited number of DirectX 10 graphics cards. Many features have been integrated such as reflective and refractive water, bloom effects, window refraction, advanced AI allowing allies and enemies, as well as additional shaders. These though draw more inefficiency to the already underpowered engine.
Model Packs
After the release of FPS Creator, The Game Creators have since released thirty-three model packs for FPS Creator. These packs vary in new entities, characters, sprites, segments and weapons. It is not known if these packs can be used in FPS Creator X10, however The Game Creators are working on it, and model pack 16 has x10 support. Model Packs are a collection of animated models, segments and weapons. These are created by the FPS Creator community and have given permission for The Game Creators to compile and market them.
Game Creator Store
Users are able to purchase points for use in the Game Creator Store, where they can purchase various models not available to the normal retail version and models made by other users.

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