Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Sandbox 3D Game Maker-A Game Maker Easy Enough for a kid to use

Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker is an open source game design program for kids and adults.  Through the ingame and cooperative editing and focus on ease of use the program is easy enough for kids to use but powerful enough for full game projects.  Sandbox includes Save The Princess Gameplay, an RPG Maker, a Sidescoller maker, a Movie Maker aka Machinima, Save The Banana Base Capture, and more!  Sandbox is already being used in many schools and colleges throughout the world and included in game design contests.What's more you can also make comics in it and it says it is easy enough for kids to use which is true because I am a kid and I am able to use.

Here is a video in action







How to Install

how to install-
open a terminal and paste

1)wget http://archive.getdeb.net/install_deb/playdeb_0.3-1~getdeb1_all.deb
2)sudo dpkg -i playdeb_0.3-1~getdeb1_all.deb
3)sudo apt-get update
4)sudo apt-get install sandboxgamemaker

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

UbuntuOne Music Store Public Beta Available and some Apologies from Me

Hi all firstly some apologies for not posting on this blog because I had exams(and I am pretty serious about exams seriously).

The UbuntuOne Music is now available in Public Beta.Read More Here.

http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/?p=263

Friday, March 5, 2010

An easy way to make Docky Themes(noob friendly)

Do you love docky?but yeah you can't find a theme that suits you tastes.Hre is a Tutorial for making Docky Themes-

1)Press Alt+F2 or fire up the terminal

2)Enter this command-gksu nautilus /usr/share/docky/themes

3)Enter your password

4)Copy the theme's folder that you want as base.e.g. I chose the HUD Theme

5)Paste it there

6)Rename it to whatever you like.e.g.I renamed HUD(2) to Trans

7)Open the folder and modify the contents with GIMP or Inkscape(I prefer it because it is easy)

8)Do Compress it as a .tar.gz and post it on Gnome-Look so others can use it.

Let me know the Theme you have created(with links please) and your thoughts on this article in the Comments.

Here is a theme I created with this technique-

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Trans+Theme+for+Docky?content=117701