game-editor.com

It does rotation and lots of image manipulation, but wait until you see the price. I fell off my chair.

http://www.parystec.demon.co.uk/PT-dev_content.html

Really? That surprised you? I learned an authoring system in college called Toolbook II. It's now called Toolbook Instructor:

https://toolbook.sumtotalsystems.com/Products.asp

The price for a single license is $2,795

krikey!

Yet another system is called EDGE (http://www.edgelib.com). It's $950 for the first year, $650 for each additional year, and it supports a ton of stuff like a slew of mobile devices and OSes, rotation and blending, blah blah. But the downside? It requires Visual Studio and it's all about scripting.

Thanks for posting the above info. It is interesting to read about these developments. However, in my way of thinking, neither of the above programs are actually authoring systems (aka Toolbook or Game Editor) since each appears to be dependent on C/C++ programming (or did I miss something?). Personally, I tend to define Authoring systems as software programs that are not totally dependent on programming knowledge. In fact, in my ideal world, the user of such software would be totally 'protected' from the scripting environment. That is, program creation without programming knowledge. Around 1995-2001 there was quite a push to develop these sorts of "click together" Authoring Systems. Unfortunately, they weren't very popular with programmers and I tend to believe that the normal computer user wasn't ever really aware that they existed before they slipped away. Game Editor really offers the best of both worlds because programmers can use their knowledge of C and others can use the Authoring aspect of the program to create games while they learn the scripting language.

Just4Fun wrote:Thanks for posting the above info. It is interesting to read about these developments. However, in my way of thinking, neither of the above programs are actually authoring systems (aka Toolbook or Game Editor) since each appears to be dependent on C/C++ programming (or did I miss something?).

Toolbook uses it's own language called OpenScript, and it's designed to be extremely easy to use and english like (sometimes that makes it a little wordy though). I have an old second-hand copy that I've used, I'll give you an example of some of it's script:

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to handle buttonclick
   system ftype
   system filter
   ftype = "category"
   filter = "Bahai"
   
   set visible of group grpWaitMessage to true
   
   set visible of self to false
   send readquotes
   set visible of self to true
   
   go to page "pgDisplay"
end buttonclick


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