You Can Be A Game Developer In About 5 Minutes

Appy Pie, a cloud-based
company that offers tools for building apps, announced today that
its Game Builder platform will be available to anyone for free.

That means that in just 5 minutes, you could build a mobile game
of your very own. Not a particularly good or complicated mobile
game, but still. You can build a game without knowing the first
thing about coding.

Game Builder
offers you six templates to choose from — basketball, casino,
tic-tac-toe, a shooter, a "Flappy Bird"-like game, and
puzzle — but more choices will be available in the coming months.
Since its soft launch in January,
more than 500 mobile games have been created, according to
VentureBeat.

You can add personal graphics or titles to the game if you want,
or you can choose one from a template.

I decided to make a "Flappy Bird" clone.

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I chose a name for the game, and wrote a brief
description. I didn't want to blow anyone away with my mad
game-making skills, so I chose a premade logo and game icon.

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Then, it asked me to choose a few more settings, like,
the type of bird and different pipes.

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Then I played my terrible "Flappy Bird" knockoff. It's
just as hard as the original.

Game Builder

The whole thing took about 5 minutes, but only because I tried my
hand at uploading my own files.

Appy Pie will upload your game, no matter how terrible it is, to
its servers.
If you pay some money, however, you can get the game uploaded
to iOS, Android, and even BlackBerry and Windows Phone, according
to VentureBeat. And you can even add push notifications and
in-app purchases.

"Appy Pie's driving mission is to make the entire app creation
process effortless and enjoyable, where anyone can create a
mobile app in 3 easy steps," said Appy Pie founder Abhinav
Girdhar.