Welcome to Venatio Creo!
Venatio Creo is a portable open source 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.
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.
