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Dated: Aug. 19, 2013

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If you want to create games you don't always need to be a programer. You can just open the network and find sites designed for creating online games. Creating games on the network can be fun and easy, and after that you can enjoy your own games. Down below you have one site that is purely made for creating a network platform game.

Pixel Press (pixelpressgame.com) is an application that really does not need any previous knowledge or the time to learn a new interface. All you need is to have once played a platform based game. Pixel Press allows you to follow brief instructions and using specific templates, create your own platform very quickly. Look & feel is in a retro fashion with a lot of pixels, like, say, the classics like Manic Miner or Super Mario. The game can also be tested and you can try to pass the level you plotted.

Pixel Press puts the focus on the creative part of creating the game, not the programming. This application currently doesn't have developed the part that will perform the programming part behind the scenes, and is currently raising money via Kickstarter, and is planning to realize the project so that it is available to everyone by the end of 2013.

For now, on the web site pixelpressgame.com you can download a .pdf file with instructions and a blank template that you print out and on which you will design one level of your game. Games and the template is designed so that on the A4 sheet you have five platforms, and between squares on which you draw obstacles and terrain. It is necessary to print this page and start drawing. Your hero starts from the "ground" and overcoming various obstacles that you draw, reaches the "elevator" that will go up to the next platform. Each successive platform should have a more difficult obstacles. The .pdf file contains instructions for drawing terrain, obstacles, and portals, as well as improvements. Obstacles may be in the form of mobile platforms, ravines, spikesand the improvements can allow your hero to run faster and jump higher. When creating a barrier keep in mind the possibility of moving your hero. For example, your hero jumps four squares, and when he runs and jumps five.

When you are finished drawing, using your phone or tablet, take a picture of the paper and upload that paper on Pixel Press. If you have drawn anything wrong Pixel Press will report an error and show where it is so you can fix it.

When Pixel Press accepts your project, then you have to design the drawn elements, choose the music and create your character with an interface with pre-selection of elements, but you can also make your own.

This ends making the game and you can try to pass levels that you drew and share it with others. Pixel Press intends to build a community of artists and players. To try other people's games you do not need to make your own.

Now that you've gotten free know-how on this topic, try to grow your skills even faster with online video training. Then finally, put these skills to the test and make a name for yourself by offering these skills to others by becoming a freelancer. There are literally 2000+ new projects that are posted every single freakin' day, no lie!

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