Welcome to Venatio Creo!
Venatio Creo is a portable intuitive application designed to allow non-programmers to create interactive computer games. It utilizes a WYSIWYG interface that lets the user see the effects of their actions immediately. After the game is created, the user may redistribute the application as a stand-alone professional quality program.
June 29th, 2009
A pre-release version of the next generation of Venatio Creo is now available! Venatio Creo 3D is the followup to Venatio Creo that will allow users to easily make their own 3D games. Much of the existing Venatio Creo system is being reused in this new iteration, but the game world editor is undergoing a serious overhaul. You can find more information as well as the pre-release download
right here!
May 13th, 2009
An updated version of Venatio Creo 1.3 is now in the downloads section!
This is a minor update to the existing build that should greatly improve performance on all machines. Let us know if there are any glitches.
April 26, 2009
Venatio Creo Version 1.3 is now available in the downloads section!
This version includes several fixes and feature additions, such as enhanced game logic support that allows global and local logic objects to contain more than 15 sentences. This version is fully backwards compatable with Venatio Creo Version 1 (and 1.1) created content and games. In addition, we now have two fully featured technology demonstrations available in the downloads section. The first is Tofu Hero, which is a traditional 2D platformer. Second, Aki no Toki is a standard J-RPG. These should provide newcomers to Venatio Creo with a visual demonstration of the versatility of the development kit. Stand-alone versions of both games are available in the downloads section.
March 15, 2009
Venatio Creo Version 1.1 is now available in the downloads section!
This version includes several fixes and feature additions, such as the new Test Mode in the game editor, the capability to use the mouse to drag-and-drop objects, various bug fixes, and more. This version is fully backwards compatable with Venatio Creo Version 1 created content and games.
February 18, 2009
A long way to come in just a few weeks.
Venatio Creo Version 1.0 is now available in the downloads section!
This is our first release of the actual application after over a year of program development and three years of research. We hope that you will try out the application and provide us with any feedback you may have. Please be sure to visit
our community forums to share your games and suggestions for improvement!
In addition, the team name for our core development team has been changed to
Angry Tofu, including a new start up screen before the Venatio Creo logo. We hope you will be as amused as we are.
February 2nd, 2009
The release candidate for Version 1.0 of Venatio Creo is now available in the
downloads section! This version represents the licensing model that we have prepared for the project. From this point forward a "Free" version of Venatio Creo will be available on the website that will be feature complete, except for the ability to create standalone projects and a banner that will appear during game play. We will be releasing a purchasable Venatio Creo Pro licensing package that will allow you to create a standalone game to be produced, and it will not have the banner at the bottom of the screen. This package will be competitively priced and will be available on a single license per game project model (with unlimited redistribution).
We have also added many more game projects that display the different types of genres and games Venatio Creo can make. As always, we are still looking for feedback so we encourage all users to register on
our forums and post their feedback suggestions and creative game projects. Thanks for your continued support!
January 15th, 2009
Venatio Creo Beta Release 5 is no available for download in our
downloads section! Venatio Creo Beta Release 5 has several major stability fixes, as well as propagating the asset browsing feature throughout the program's functions. However, projects created with VC Beta Release 4 will not work in VC Beta Release 5.
January 13th, 2009
The
gallery has been updated with new screenshots of the improved menus and functions of Venatio Creo Beta Release 4. In addition, a small update to yesterday's release has been uploaded. Backwards compatibility between the latest version of Venatio Creo Beta 4 and all previous versions has been lost due to various structure-level improvements. Please check any projects created with Venatio Creo Beta Release 3 and earlier with the new release for major bugs. However, all games created with previous versions of Venatio Creo will still work as stand alone redistributions, and the new file structures improve usability and creation of new games.
January 12th, 2009
Venatio Creo Beta Release 4 is now available for download in our
downloads section! This release adds a large amount of features including a file browser, object templates, faster loading, and a new way of handling images. The only downside is that any previous VC project will still load, but your games graphics will require some tweaking under our new system. Make sure you post in the forums with your impressions!
January 7th, 2009
The Venatio Creo Forums have been
updated to the latest version of the software to improve usability and security. All users have been transferred successfully.
January 5th, 2009
Venatio Creo Beta Release 3
Venatio Creo Beta Release 3 is now available in the
downloads section! This version now includes a built-in installer interface.
In addition, VenatioCreo.com recieves a facelift in preperation for a proper Beta release and wider advertisement, appropriately enough, just after the start of a New Year.
December 11th, 2008
Venatio Creo Beta Release 2
Venatio Creo Beta Release 2 is now available in the
downloads section. This release includes various bug fixes, as well as an improved implementation of OpenAL. Projects should no longer suffer any sound issues. This version also includes a more efficient output for configuration files which will help improve loading times on larger projects greatly, and reduce game file sizes.
December 4th, 2008
Venatio Creo Beta Release 1
Venatio Creo Beta Release 1 is now available in the downloads section. Major changes involve adding sound effects for the system and in-game use, faster overall load times, a tremendous amount of small feature and bug fixes and many more things. This is a huge update over the previous version available so we urge everyone to update. The file vcredist_x86.exe is no longer required to run Venatio Creo as we are now compiling under a different environment. Enjoy!
November 24th, 2008
Venatio Creo Alpha Release 5
Venatio Creo Alpha Release 5 is now available in the downloads section. Major changes involve smoother gameplay and keyboard input during games, better timing controls, the ability for each object to have its own unique score and display it to the screen, along with other crash and bug fixes. All projects should still be backwards compatible, however due to a change in the collision system you may want to verify that your game is running properly. Included are some new game types: adventure, pong and a new version of cutscene.
November 20th, 2008
Venatio Creo Alpha Release 4
Venatio Creo Alpha Release 4 is now available in the downloads section. Major changes involve updated collision detection, the ability to have objects "seek" each other, space bar usage fix, crash fixes and other misc issues and features.
November 17th, 2008
Venatio Creo Alpha Release 3
Venatio Creo Alpha Release 3 is now available in the downloads section of this site. Major changes are bug fixing, and the ability to set time-based game logic.
November 10th, 2008
Venatio Creo Tutorial 1: The Well
The first tutorial is now available in the downloads section. This tutorial focuses on learning the basics of creating games in Venatio Creo by showing the user how to change tiles, add objects and then supply them with game logic. The overall game that the user is creating is simple: Once the player touches the well, the game is won. These basics can then be expanded by the user into their own game or making a more complex variation of the tutorial. The tutorial file is a Microsoft Word 2003 document.
November 9th, 2008
Venatio Creo Alpha Release 2.1
A modified version of Venatio Creo Alpha Release 2 is now available, it is under the same link that was used for the Alpha Release 2 original. This was done because the list of changes was not large, just crash fixes and the ability to change the collision box size of objects independently of the actual object size. Please download it and offer any feedback you would like in the forums.
Also speaking of the forums, we recently were hit with spam, so now when you wish to register, it must be approved by an administrator. To expedite this progress, also send me an email at evwolbach (at) venatiocreo (dot) com saying that you are not a bot and wish to have your registration accepted.
October 29th, 2008
Venatio Creo Alpha Release 2
Venatio Creo Alpha Release 2 is now available. This version is still an early work-in-progress and may contain unforseen bugs or errors. If you have any feedback please post it in the forums. Installation instructions are on the downloads page. You may download it from this link. (Edit: Removed due to newer release.)
The primary changes for this release includes better stability, increased features such as being able to read a release key, streamlined user interfaces, spelling and grammar fixes as well as the addition of a full demo game included as well as expanded art assets. To play or edit the demo game, type "demo" without the quotation marks into the Load Game or Edit Existing Project menus and press enter.
October 21st, 2008
Venatio Creo Alpha Release 1
We are happy to report that an early, work in progress version of Venatio Creo is now available on this website. This early version is still not feature complete, and may contain unforeseen bugs or errors. If you have any feedback, suggestions or just want to report a bug or error, please use our forums located under the community button on the left of this page. You may download this early version of Venatio Creo from this link. (Update: New version available, check above newspost.)
October 4th, 2008
Welcome to the launch of VenatioCreo.com! This page will be updated with news about the state of the project, and any interesting community affairs going on. If you are new to Venatio Creo, please check out the About page on the left panel. The community page will house our forums and information on the Venatio Creo wiki. We have brand new screenshots in the gallery as well! We look forward to seeing your creations.
