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Geek Culture / 3D Game Maker - A Super App for Kids

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Flatlander
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Posted: 27th May 2012 07:04 Edited at: 27th May 2012 07:13
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Hi everyone who either has a younger brother/sister, son/daughter, or grandson -- like me -- or granddaughter.

I had gotten this program sometime ago before it was update. I was kind of OK with it but there were issues that made it difficult for my then grandson who is now 18. However, my youngest Grandson -- who is 8 -- is now able to use the newest version which is a super improvement. Just last night, using it for the first time, he made three games that he is really excited about. So much so he wanted his best friend to see them and thought he would have to come to our house to play them. I told my grandson that no we can build a stand-alone game and put them on a CD for him so he can take them home. Boy did that excite him.

He is really excited about doing more with this program to make bigger and more exciting games. He made three totally different types of games. A first person shooter war game, a racing game and a 3rd person shooter scifi game.

Someday he wants to "graduate" to FPSC.

He may be the next great game maker or working for movie makers making CGI.

Anyway, he loves it and we have bonded even more than we already have. So, I love it.

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He had NO help at all from me. He made the games completely on his own. A fourth game he made with the "Magic" feature and he thought that was real cool. Especially watching the app choose everything at random that was necessary for the game.

"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code . . . reminds me….. if I had one more brain cell, I could have a synapse! woo hoo, Sparky!

~I'm the Terry of the Flatlands.
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NIlooc223
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Posted: 27th May 2012 07:32
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Thats so cool see young kids learning and getting into game creation I started when I was 10 and its been a few years next thing you know hes going to be scripting and making awsome games!

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 27th May 2012 16:24
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That's really awesome! When I was around 10 or 11, I wanted 3D game maker so bad, I thought it was gonna be able to do anything and everything, but my mom wouldn't buy it for me, as she didn't have the money, nor did she trust TGC (Even though she had no reason not to). I DID, however, get DB lite, and began playing around on it for a little while, and boy was that something awesome, though I never got all that far in actually making a game. I'm glad to see your grandson is getting involved in making games so early! That's a good sign that you have in innovator right there! You should graduate him to DBP rather than FPSC.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 27th May 2012 17:19
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Hehe, that's awesome. I too wanted it when I was around 10/11, by the time I picked up a copy I had already started with Dark Basic Classic, so it was a novelty (especially as I was still learning DBC). I used to use Klik n Play and The Games Factory before I came across this site (and they were a wee more complicated than T3DGM, but still super easy), so if your grandson wanted to expand his imagination beyond what FPSC can do, there is The Games Factory 2, it's cheap and a great set of tools for making 2D games, without it being too complicated.

Of course, no harm in having him use both, as I'm sure if he finds making games like this to be exciting, the more he can do then I'm sure the more thrilled he'll be.

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 27th May 2012 21:21
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I actually remember finding T3DGM when I was around 9! Before that, I had been using a game engine that's now open sourced called Game Editor. Which was only 2D. For animations and art, I stole stuff from a royalty-free GIF and animation site called Animation Factory, though I wasn't supposed to! So, after getting tired of 2D, I began looking for something FREE that could do 3D, so I came across The 3D Game Maker, begged, begged, and begged some more, but to no avail. Such a lucky kid to have such a good grandfather...

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Levi barros
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Posted: 11th Jun 2012 20:56
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Awesome! I still remember when I first got The 3D Gamemaker, it was literally one of the most exciting days of my life! Making my own games on my Windows 98 PC that was past down to me by my father.

Ya know what? I'm going to install The 3D Gamemaker again and have some fun with it, just like the good old days

Just by the way guys, 3D Gamemaker games ARE GREAT for laptops! Like, when you're traveling and you need something simple and fun to play.

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bitJericho
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Posted: 11th Jun 2012 22:08
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Does it run on windows 7/8?

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keyte
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Posted: 15th Jun 2012 03:44
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I'm teaching English to kids age 6 ~ 12 in Japan and we're sometimes using this 3d game maker to build simple 3d game stories on my overhead projector. My Japanese students just love the 3d game maker! And wish it would be available in Japanese.

I would love to help market this software to in Japan. I would be happy to translate it too if TGC wouldn’t mind.

I made a game by importing my own 3d abc letters and the kids had to go around shooting down all the ABC letters and I added my own voice to the ABC letters shoot and die audio section to teach the ABCs. So every time the ABC appears and shoots it uses the sound of its letter to teach the ABC sounds.

With its built in voice recorder and ability to import our own 3d models and textures we can even inspire kids from none native English countries to learn English by building fun game lessons in 3d for kids to download.

Plus we can add an .avi video file at the start of the game. I use it to teach the English vocabulary and new words. I also let them download a colorful pdf file for teaching the vocabulary as an add-on lesson to the game.

So many of the existing 3d models that are already in the 3d game maker work well with my curriculum.
For example: Animals / scary / big / small / it's cute / it's funny, Where am I ? You're in the Aztec jungle,... Space,... Moon,... In the city... There are at least 1000s of simple English vocabulary variations that one could teach using the existing models and building games using different scenes. Teaching the vocabulary in fun 3d video games is far more fun for kids than learning from videos, textbooks and flash cards etc which they can’t interact with or explore freely.

I love it.
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Van B
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Posted: 15th Jun 2012 12:08
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That's great. It's exactly the reason why I defend T3DGM. When my son was that age he fell in love with it as well, just like I fell in love with Shoot-Em-Up-Construction-Kit on the C64.
Having a product that not only allows, but encourages creativity is huge when your that age, like having lego in the 70's, or mechano in the 60's.

If he likes to draw, maybe he would be interested in My Doodle Game as well. Personally I think that going onto FPSC when he's a little older is a good move - it's only as violent as you make it, and really just making mazes and level designs is the most fun. I mean, he'd probably get a lot from it without even adding any enemies to shoot at.

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bitJericho
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Posted: 15th Jun 2012 12:30
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Wow keyte that sounds really cool. I'm going to buy it for my son for his birthday.

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