Clickteam
 Clickteam logo |
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| Type | Privately Owned |
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| Industry | Software |
| Founded | Paris, France (1993) |
| Founder(s) | François Lionet Yves Lamoureux Francis Poulain |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
| Key people | Francis Poulain, Financial Director Jeff Vance, CEO Clickteam USA Chris Carson, VP USA Operations DT Holder, VP Special Projects Rhon Schlick, Sales - Graphic Design Jason Darby, UK Sales & Marketing Manager |
| Products | Multimedia Fusion, Klik & Play, The Games Factory See other products |
| Website | Clickteam.com |
Clickteam is a software company, founded in 1993 by François Lionet, Yves Lamoureux and Francis Poulain, headquartered in Paris, France. Clickteam is perhaps best known for the creation of a script-free programming tool that allows users to create video games or other interactive software using a range of GUI tools.
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[edit] History
Before co-founding Clickteam, François Lionet was the programmer of STOS BASIC in 1988, a programming language for the Atari ST and in 1990 AMOS BASIC, a more advanced programming language for the Commodore Amiga. Both of these have since been released in open-source form on the Clickteam corporate website. Yves Lamoureux was also a successful game developer prior to co-founding Clickteam, working with multiple companies on games.[1]
[edit] Products
Clickteam's debut software was Klik & Play released in 1994,[2] this marked the team's first successful software release. Subsequent releases included Jamagic, a 3D game-making tool, The Games Factory, The Games Factory 2, and Multimedia Fusion. Clickteam's most recent application is Multimedia Fusion 2 (MMF2). Released worldwide June 30, 2006, the title is the successor to Multimedia Fusion the company's most well received software application to date. The MMF 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.[3][4]
[edit] Klik Range
- Klik & Play (KnP)
- The Games Factory (TGF)
- The Games Factory 2 (TGF2)
- Click and Create (Also known as Multimedia Fusion Express) (CnC)
- Multimedia Fusion (MMF)
- Multimedia Fusion 2 (MMF2)
[edit] Other products
- Install Creator (previously Install Maker)
- Patch Maker
- SynchronX
- Jamagic
[edit] Corporate leadership
| Executive Board | |
| François Lionet | Founding Developer |
| Yves Lamoureux | Founding Developer |
| Francis Poulain | Financial Director |
| Jeff Vance | Chief Executive Officer, Clickteam USA |
| Chris Carson | Vice President, USA Operations |
| DT Holder | Vice President, Special Projects |
| Rhon Schlick | Sales - Graphic Design |
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official Clickteam site
- Neatwares Extensions List for MMF2 - A list of extensions for MMF2
- The Daily Click - A big community click site
- Game Builder - Another community click site
- Clickteam.com - STOS and AMOS source code download files
[edit] References
- ^ "About Clickteam". The Company and The Products. Copyright © Clickteam 2010 All Rights Reserved. http://www.clickteam.com/website/usa/about-clickteam.html. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
- ^ Warren Buckleitner (in English). The Complete Sourcebook on Children's Software. Children's Software Revue, 2001. pp. 608. ISBN 1891983059, 9781891983054. http://books.google.com/books?ei=t49JTZCGBMGs8Aa_97meDg&ct=result&id=2BGxLDlrhp0C&dq=The+Complete+Sourcebook+on+Children%27s+Software&q=Klik+and+Play. 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..."
- ^ Alan Thorn (in English). Game Engine Design and Implementation (Revised ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2010. p. Page 26. ISBN 0763784516, 9780763784515. "Multimedia Fusion is a commercial, proprietary game engine designed and licensed by Clickteam for the creation of 2D games for Windows"
- ^ Clayton E. Crooks. Awesome 3D game development: no programming required (illustrated ed.). Cengage Learning, 2004. p. 72. ISBN 1584503254, 9781584503255. "Multimedia Fusion [...is a] development tool[...] mostly used for 2D games, but because it is the most well-rounded game development tool available in the non-programming category, it's a perfect way to start out. With it, you can create a wide variety of games, and the support from Clickteam (www.clickteam.com) is top notch."
