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CardMonkey: Make your own solitaire card games (free)

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CardMonkey is a free framework for making your own solitaire games. It is designed for complete beginners and comes with a detailed tutorial for making the popular Klondike Solitaire to get you started. While limited to making solitaire card games, CardMonkey provides an approachable introduction to more complex game development.

CardMonkey uses the Lua programming language which is easy to learn but powerful enough to create a wide variety of games with. Even if you have never programmed before the tutorials will give you all the skills you need to start making your own games. You can also edit images, splash screens, fonts and text to make your own creations look and feel exactly how you want them to.

Features
  • Framework for managing cards, capable of producing hundreds of different games.
  • Learn the Lua Programming language through clear tutorials.
  • Start making games straight away, a typical game is less than 40 lines of code.
  • Edit images, fonts and splash screens to make your games unique.
  • Support through the LittleMonkey Community and request additional features for future releases.
  • Upload and share your creations on LittleMonkey.

This is an early release of CardMonkey and the engine will grow and develop as people use the system and request more features. Full support is provided through a dedicated forum, and you can upload and show off your creations to others on the LittleMonkey site.

Whats more CardMonkey is completely free of charge, so download it today and get started in game development!

http://www.littlemon...games/games.php?id=1



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