In recent years we have seen an explosion of software that allows regular folk the ability to do something that is, by most accounts, a supremely daunting and complicating task. And that's to create their own video games.
But Pixel Press looks to be the most easiest solution yet, as well as the most compelling. It promises to transform regular line drawing into video game levels, the kind that kids (as well as adults) has put together, when brainstorming their own ideas of a perfect game:
According to Joystq, all one needs to do is do all the rendering on a special sheet of paper that anyone can print up at home, whatever drawing tools that you are comfortable with, and an iOS app to take a picture of whatever level layout has been drawn.
The game will be a simple 2D platformer that is broken up into 5 part segments. So those who are looking to create something on the same scale as Super Mario Bros 3, or something closer to Link To The Past, will be disappointed.
Then again, it's a means to create a game without any coding skills and just a little bit of drawing, which is still fairly miraculous nonetheless.
One primary target of Pixel Press is, not surprisingly, teachers and educators, and it's easy to see how such an app can help to revolutionize the class room. Provided if the school it is in can afford an iPhone an iPad, but that's an entirely different matter.
The makers of Pixel Press will use Kickstarter to help make the app happen, which is expected to launch sometime tomorrow, May 7th.
