Spark Casual Engine

The Spark Casual Engine is a video game engine developed by Artifex Mundi. The engine is designed to streamline the process of making games that are often called hidden object or puzzle adventure games. The engine is supposed to make it easier for the developers to port their game to other platforms more quickly. - Spark Casual Engine Spark Casual Engine™ is a sophisticated toolset dedicated to developement of the HOPA games. Thanks to modular construction, it enables the development of other kinds of casual games like Match3 or Mahjong. Bringing the best practises from console and mobile development, Spark CE offers great quality, stability and outstnading performance. Thanks to the simplifing approach, game developement may require no programming at all! Just use features and gameset delivered with SDK and see how it works for you. - Platforms Spark CE supports all of the platforms most important for the casual gamers: Android OS, iDevs, Windows PC, MacOS. Thanks to the solutions used, development for all these platforms may be streamlined and simplified allowing for great savings of both money and time. - WYSIWYG The basic philosophy of Spark Casual Engine™ is to make designing a game as easy as possible. This is why the haert of the Spark SDK is a WYSIWIG editor (from: What You See Is What You Get). It is a perfect tool to declare active and passive areas of the scene, add black bar comments, put in particles, prepare animations for the use of items and so on. - Cinematics One of the most popular forms of animation. Thanks to the use of the easily compressible Theora video compression forma, the cinematics in Spark CE look good while not consuming too many resources. - In-scene movie A more sophisticated use of standard movie files. It is easy to create a movie, which is a part of the scene. It may be an animal, character or machine animation. It can be whatever you want. - Particles A build-in editor allows to create both simple and complex particle effects. In both cases the effect is efficient and effective. - Other features Hint system, voiceover and localization support, multiversioning

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