DarkBASIC
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| Industry | Software development |
| Founded | Lancashire, United Kingdom (1999) |
| Founder | Lee Bamber, Richard Vanner |
| Headquarters | Macclesfield, Cheshire, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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Lee Bamber (Managing Director) Richard Vanner (Financial Director) |
| Products | Video game development software, modelling software |
| Website | TheGameCreators.com |
The Game Creators, Ltd. (often stylised "tgc") is a British game development software company formed through a partnership between programmer Lee Bamber and Rick Vanner in 1999, located in Macclesfield, Cheshire, United Kingdom. The company was formerly known as Dark Basic Software Limited. The company primarily develops and markets game development tools for Windows. Among others, it has developed DarkBASIC Professional, its predecessor DarkBASIC, App Game Kit, FPS Creator (and its successors FPS Creator X10 and GameGuru) and The 3D Gamemaker.
The company also electronically publishes a number of other game development tools and utilities made by other parties, such as 3d modeling tools and media. In the past, they published a small number of computer games.
In November 2012, the company launched a campaign aiming to raise funds for the development of a new version of FPS Creator called "Reloaded", using crowd funding site Kickstarter. Despite the eventual failure to secure funding, a private investor agreed to fund development and The Game Creators began to accept funding using an internal system. As of October 2013, a beta version was in development with a limited release scheduled for 31 October 2013. It was later renamed Game Guru and widened its focus beyond the first-person shooter genre. Since 27 February 2015 it is available as a Steam early access title. The company hopes the engine can make game creation more accessible.
The 3D Gamemaker is a computer application developed by The Game Creators, that allows users to make various genres of 3D games for Microsoft Windows. The tool is marketed as allowing users to create 3D games without programming and art skills. Games developed with 3D Gamemaker require at least 400 MHz Pentium processor, 64 MB of RAM and DirectX 7.0b to run. Alongside the full boxed release, The 3D Gamemaker was also released in a Lite edition, with less categories of assets available and a reduced feature set.
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