Clickteam

Clickteam SARL
Private
Industry Software industry
Founded 1993 (1993)
Founders
Headquarters Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Key people
 Yves Lamoureux
Products Clickteam Fusion
Website clickteam.com

Clickteam SARL is a French software development company based in Boulogne-Billancourt. Founded in 1993 by François Lionet, Yves Lamoureux and Francis Poulain, Clickteam is best known for the creation of Clickteam Fusion, a script-free programming tool that allows users to create video games or other interactive software using a range of graphical user interface tools.

History

Before co-founding Clickteam, François Lionet was the programmer of STOS BASIC, a programming language released in 1988 for the Atari ST, and AMOS BASIC, a more advanced programming language released in 1990 for the Commodore Amiga. Both of these have since been released in open-source form on the Clickteam corporate website.[1] Yves Lamoureux was also a successful game developer prior to co-founding Clickteam, working with multiple companies on games.[2]

Clickteam's debut software was Klik & Play, released in 1994 as commercial, proprietary software;[3] this marked the team's first successful software release. A version for educational use, dubbed Klik & Play For Schools, was also released as freeware, to be used exclusively for school activities.[4] Klik & Play For Schools was available for download in Clickteam's website during the course of 2006, now being available for the public in general. Subsequent releases included, released in 1996, Clickteam's second product, Click and Create later renamed Multimedia Fusion Express which included more advanced features which the original Klik & Play lacked, such as scrolling, and a timeline editor, 3D game-making tool Jamagic; The Games Factory; The Games Factory 2; and Multimedia Fusion.

Clickteam's most recent application is Clickteam Fusion 2.5 (CF 2.5). This title is the successor to Multimedia Fusion 2, the company's most well-received software application to date.

In September 2016 Clickteam partnered with the Humble Bundle and offered a Fusion 2.5 centered bundle. Around ten games and Fusion 2.5 with various export modules were offered in the "Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Bundle". Notably, for several games the source code was included.[5][6]

Fusion 3.0 was slated to be released in 2017 but as of 4th quarter 2018 the software release date has yet to be announced.[7]

Products

The Fusion series was designed to be a user-friendly yet powerful drag-and-drop game and application creation program, easily accessible to either those well-versed or inexperienced in programming.[8][9]

Software and video game development software

  • Klik & Play (KnP) - Originally created by Europress Software (Francois Lionet/Yves Lamoureux 1994)
  • Click and Create (CnC) - Later renamed Multimedia Fusion Express.
  • The Games Factory (TGF)
  • The Games Factory 2 (TGF2)
  • Multimedia Fusion (MMF)
  • Multimedia Fusion 2 (MMF2)
  • Clickteam Fusion 2.5 (CF2.5)
  • Clickteam Fusion 3.0 (release date TBA)

Runtime export modules for Clickteam Fusion 2.5 are available for Shockwave Flash, iOS, XNA, Android, HTML5, UWP and for MacOS.

Other products

  • Install Creator (previously Install Maker)
  • Patch Maker
  • SynchronX
  • Jamagic

Reception and impact

The most notable games made using Clickteam Engines are those in the Five Nights at Freddy's series, as well as the 2014 indie game Freedom Planet.

References

  1. ↑ Amos & Stos » Main Download on clickteam.com (archived 2007)
  2. ↑ "About Clickteam". The Company and The Products. Copyright © Clickteam 2012 All Rights Reserved. Retrieved February 18, 2013.
  3. ↑ Warren Buckleitner. The Complete Sourcebook on Children's Software. Children's Software Revue, 2001. p. 608. ISBN 978-1-891983-05-4. Retrieved 2 February 2011. Klik & Play ✓ Runs on Windows (disk or CD-ROM) 4.5****1/2 Maxis (Electronic Arts), 800-336-2947, www.maxis.com 1994, $54.95, ages 14-up ✓ Teaches creativity, logic Provides a set of 1000 animated objects...
  4. ↑ "Clickteam -- Creative Tools". 2001-10-05. Archived from the original on October 5, 2001. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
  5. ↑ Click, Clickteam, Boom! – The Humble Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Bundle on vgfusion.com by Matt (27 September 2016)
  6. ↑ clickteam-fusion-bundle on humblebundle.com
  7. ↑ "Clickteam Fusion 3 Release Date - ClickFusion Academy". ClickFusion Academy. 2017-07-16. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  8. ↑ Alan Thorn. Game Engine Design and Implementation (Revised ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2010. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-7637-8451-5. Multimedia Fusion is a commercial, proprietary game engine designed and licensed by Clickteam for the creation of 2D games for Windows
  9. ↑ {{cite book|title=Awesome 3D game development: no programming required|publisher=Cengage Learning, 2004|isbn=978-1-58450-325-5 |author=Clayton E. Crooks|edition=illustrated|page=72|quote=Multimedia Fusion [...is a] development tool[...] mostly used for 2D games...

Bibliography

  • Углев С. (2018). Конструктор игр Clickteam Fusion. Litres. ISBN 9785041229450.
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