The ultimate video game sandbox! Create, explore, and survive across a retro gaming universe. Gather heroes, forge weapons, and build worlds - the adventures are endless!
The Video Game Machine simplifies the joy of game creation into 3 clicks...
- Pick a Genre. Click!
- Choose your Hero. Click!
- Name your Game. Click!
And that's it! VGM takes your input and builds your own retro adventure, blurring the line between playing and creating.
If mid-game inspiration strikes , simply pause the action to bring up VGM's feature-rich editor. With hundreds of enemies, environments, items, NPCs, and more, the editor lets you create your very own game worlds to explore and enjoy.
Current Features
- A Generation system that builds a game from hand-crafted template levels.
- 3 Initial Genres: Sidescroller, Legendary Adventure, and Runner.
- A fully functional Game Editor that can be brought up at any time, letting you take the generated game and make it your own.
- Hundreds of heroes, enemies, environments, music tracks, items, and rules to play (and create) with.
- An easy-to-share XML format, that lets other VGM players enjoy your creations.
- Several sample games to play, enjoy, and learn from.
Feature Roadmap
- Story Mode: We need a campaign that takes the player through a hand-crafted adventure. This mode will unlock unique content that can be used in the 'Make a Game' portion of VGM.
- Additional Genres: The more genres VGM has, the less work required to make the games you're envisioning. Every new Beta build will have at least one additional Genre to build from.
- More Content: Whether its heroes, enemies, items, or mechanics, every new EA build will add additional gameplay goodies to build with.
- Workshop Support: Once the mechanics and data formats are finalized, we will be hooking up Steam Workshop support so players can digitally share their creations.
