Max Games

Most definitely! Especially with the new OpenGL objects. However, I can't help but feel doing it in a more "traditional" way would be far more efficient.

Same here. But, i say this, but in the same time i know i will try one day ^^ especailly if you want to make a 3d game involging some sort of physics, and not too much objects in your world... or some sort of landscape generativity, or music generativity, induced by player actions... things to explore indeed !

btw, look at this ! https://cycling74.com/forums/chess-for-max/

I have a feeling that while you may be able to prototype/program the physics and graphics and other UI elements using the standard max-object patching method, you'd probably need to resort to a text-based language to articulate the game's rules and higher-level logic, ie maybe use mxj or js to parse user responses.

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You can see some projects that I realized.
I use Max to create games (for simple games) and I'm trying to develop tools to do so. I use javascript to achieve this.

As Commathe said, it seems that the creation of games must be more effective in "traditional" programming languages ​​in terms of performance that I have found when it comes to creating 3D worlds, however, max can be a tool interesting for prototyping.

I have rarely seen topics concerning the creation of video games with max until it is a subject that interests me.
In any case, I hope this is a subject that tends to grow ...

Thanks for the response!

I have done some research and I will not be creating the game in max anymore (I think). I am now using unity3d for the game, but controlling certain parts of the game and all sound in max/msp.

Are there any resources or examples of previous work of max/msp and unity?

Thanks

J

Maybe you know about this, there is an external aimed at interfacing Max and Unity. http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/18362-ANN-myu-Max-Unity-Interoperability-Toolkit-v-1-0-Released and here https://cycling74.com/forums/ann-myu-max-unity-interoperability-toolkit-v-1-0-released/

Good choice to go with Unity3d, I've been poking around with it for a few months and am hugely impressed. A learning curve for sure, though some projects are super-simple to get started. Lots of tutorials available too. Once you start to "get" how it deals with GameObjects, components, and scripting (like accessing other objects), how the physics elements work, and what the very flexible and interactive Inspector can do for you, you'll be off and running.

There will always be tradeoffs between languages. For example, it's much easier to do a slick and complex UI in Max than Unity (or probably most other languages), and writing files, storing presets, etc. is a breeze with Max. Also the video, audio, and MIDI control is pretty much infinitely flexible. However, Unity offers a ton of other goodies which might be difficult to do in Max, like scene-building, various input-control configurations, all the physics and camera possibilities, etc. It's very much designed for these things, so a lot of the heavy lifting has been done for you via the built-in functions and the IDE.

The biggest advantage of Unity3d, though, is the ability to deploy to mobile. And as of about May 2013, the free version of Unity3d allows deploying to iOS and Android *for free* (was $400 each previously). Yeah!!

So, one thought on that, for your project: if you want to deploy to mobile, you won't be able to control via Max, at least in the same way you do on a computer-based application. However, you might be able to work some magic by sending your control data to the device over OSC or UDP.

Well I think I will be prototyping the game in max, as its its only a variation of pong (1972) I am creating. (The game is being used to test several theories of video game immersion). I won't be making it into a mobile game or anything like that, it will be made into a standalone.

I did give the unity3d idea some thought, however surely jitter offers enough capability to produce a 2d game of pong. I dont have an awful lot of experience with jitter but surely you can control the visuals on screen?

What you think? Make the game using jitter, I just think there will be some problems with creating an AI and scoring system.

Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming!