
Activate a smartpaint to spray the land with the texture set of your choice – it will cover the ground with grass and then automatically add rock faces to cliffs, for instance. From there, you can sculpt land up from the blue or erode down below it, which automatically fills the hole with water. Go as deep as you likeĬreate is the full-fledged editor where advanced users will style their own worlds and games.

Once there he found a Flame Sword to use through the remainder of the game or as a building tool in Create mode. He glimpsed a meteor falling from the sky and ran down to investigate. We watched a player look through the telescope of the Observatory he had just placed on the map. Some of the events that unfold during your game will open up new items for you to use across all of Project Spark’s modes.

Once you’ve completed the path, you can add a new chapter to expand the game or hop right in and play it. Project Spark automatically populates the path with random encounters, sidequests, and objects to make things interesting for the player. Next choose a destination like a Quarry, Observatory, or Fortress and draw a path from your base to the destination. Then choose a protagonist, a home for your character, and an objective such as completing a quest or defending against an invading army. Use the interface of your choice to answer – even Kinect voice commands. First it asks what type of environment you’d like to build the game in. The idea is to answer a few simple questions about what kind of game you’d like to make, watch as the engine creates the game for you, and then play through your creation. Project Spark includes an amazingly simple game building mode called Crossroads. When he created a playable rock to jump around on the Synthesizer’s keys, I had to laugh. For instance, our presenter switched the Limbo clone’s color palette to natural colors instead of black and white, instantly giving the game a wildly different feel. Then feel free to change things up a little and leave your own personal touch on it. You can “peak behind the curtain” of any game you download and see how it was created. It even has an automated demo song! And if you’re stuck with a controller, you’d just use a cursor to flip the switches and tickle the ivories.ĭownloading and playing games like these would be cool enough on its own, but it gets even better for aspiring game makers. If playing with a touch screen or SmartGlass, you can just switch on the synthesizer, adjust a few nobs, and start twinkling away on the keys. ‘Synthesizer’ – as the name implies is an actual working interactive keyboard synthesizer built entirely within Project Spark. The final “game” that caught my eye isn’t really a game at all.

Looks like a nasty sandworm infestation they've got there.
