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The Unfolding Engine: Paint a Game is a new paradigm of Metroidvania 2.5D game making software. That allows you to make the content of your game while you are playing it! The entire software is designed around allowing you to make and share worlds, share tools, and levels. All in real time.
The Unfolding Engine: Paint a Game
SteamThe Unfolding Engine: Paint a Game is a new paradigm of Metroidvania 2.5D game making software. That allows you to make the content of your game while you are playing it! The entire software is designed around allowing you to make and share worlds, share tools, and levels. All in real time. Its streamlined to build beautiful landscapes. One click 2.5D placement makes placing down parallaxes as easy as ever, to placing down Dialogue trees with visualisations that allow you to create complex dialogue systems. Place down sounds and create dynamic rich soundscapes. Place down platforms into the work and immediately jump onto or off them. It has side features like the ability to make incremental mechanics as well as rpg mechanics. The Unfolding Engine provides all the assets needed to build all of the graphics and music you would need to be finally be able to build your metroidvania 2.5D dream game, and for those who are wanting more, the software allows for content to be added in easily.
For those in Modding communities, the software and the works from it are designed to be modded by communities of people.
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