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.
