{"id":14610,"date":"2016-04-22T14:13:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T13:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14610"},"modified":"2016-04-22T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T13:13:09","slug":"game-creation-software-available-for-free-to-raspberry-pi-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14610","title":{"rendered":"Game creation software available for free to Raspberry Pi users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.appgamekit.com\/images\/agk-pi-2.jpg?resize=560%2C315\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamecreators.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Game Creators<\/a>\u00a0have just announced that they have released their AppGameKit software for the Raspberry Pi free-of-charge.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Lee Bamber said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appgamekit.com\/agk-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\">AppGameKit<\/a> BASIC, which has the IDE, can compile and broadcast (includes broadcasting to iOS and Android devices that have the player app on them) and allows access to the GPIO pins so you can code input and output to external add-ons (LEDs, devices etc).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the blurb on their website, you create &#8220;games using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appgamekit.com\/agk-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\">AppGameKit&#8217;s <\/a>powerful &amp; easy to code syntax, combined with additional features for the Raspberry Pi such as reading &amp; writing to the digital GPIO pins&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds very interesting, and anything which gives more options for programming on the Pi can only be a good thing!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appgamekit.com\/agk-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Take a look at the software here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Game Creators\u00a0have just announced that they have released their AppGameKit software for the Raspberry Pi free-of-charge. 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