Question about making Chalk like game

[ÄlveKatt]

Hello. I recently found this lovely little free game called Chalk, that was extremely fun with a tablet. It had only six levels. http://www.konjak.org/chalk.htm

So I want to make my own game where you paint away foes and obstacles with your drawing tablet, as you do in chalk. (Though with much different graphics and story...)

My question before I install it is, is it possible to make those kind of controls in your game editor, without knowing any programming?

Thanks!

[d-soldier]

The short answer is no. If you expect to do amazing things in games/programming without any experience in games/programming, your expectations are unrealistic. Depending on how quickly you pick up scripting, you can do some amazing stuff within a short amount of time, but not amazing things right after you install it.

[ÄlveKatt]

The short answer would have sufficed...

I'm not looking to make a super advanced game here. I'm looking to make a simple side scroller with those specific controls. I just wanted to know if they were achieavable with the game editors presets...

[Fuzzy]

Functional Chalk-attack marks are possible in GE.

I'd place it inbetween beginner and intermediate. There is a GE tutorial built in that shows how to make a stream of marks with the mouse. By attaching collision events to the actors created in that, and limiting the number of actors created, one could simulate the chalk marks. Check help...game stuff..mouse trace

In addition, Sgt Sparky has a demo for a game where you draw the level as you play it. This would be helpful too.

[ÄlveKatt]

I found the topic with the Draw dude game. Then I did a google search for it to see if I could find a ged file.

Then I inadvertently stumbled upon this game editor: http://scratch.mit.edu/

It's made to teach eight year olds to make games and how to understand and make scripts. I realized that I, though 19 years older than 8, would probably be better off starting there.

So thank you so very much for the help, even if I imagine this wasn't what you intended with it.

Edit: <My innate childishness that I never seem to get rid off> And it has a "get a surprise sprite" button! </My innate childishness that I never seem to get rid off>

[ÄlveKatt]

Because you will doubt it:

I have checked the manual for the visual programming language that Scratch uses. It actually looks like I not only can do the Chalk controls in Scratch, but quite easily too.

Thanks again!

Edit: Yup, it's possible. The controls are pretty much done allready.