Computer games are those games that need to be played on a personal computer rather than on a console video game or arcade machine. One of the first computer games ever appeared on the market, is the Spacewars. Anyhow, games evolved a lot during the years, since the appearance of this game.


Who is behind the computer games creation? These are created by one or various game developers that enter in conjunction with other technical specialists. After the game is finished, it is either distributed on a physical media – DVD, CD, on the internet, and as well by Direct2Drive service.

The computer games history goes way behind until 1961, when a group of MIT students created the first game, the Spacewars. The first generation of PC games ever created were games that offered text adventures or interactive fiction. This industry, though suffered a collapse in the years 1980s, it is in a continuous developing for over two decades now.

Anyhow, technology has evolved so much nowadays, that people are capable of creating their own computer game. Anyhow, in order to create your computer game, you must first of all be creative. As like any other fiction, the idea has to be good in order to become successful.

Therefore, there are various ways to create your own computer game, but we will present one of the ways in which how to make computer games. It is not a difficult thing to do and it will be ready in just a few hours, at most. One will have to have the power point format on, and to know how to work on it. First of all, when starting to create a game, one has to add sprites, then click right on the sprite folder and click add, then when the box will appear and one can click load on it.

You will then have to choose an image for the game and do the same adding a gray block and as well a picture. After these first steps, one must choose to add a certain background and as the first game is better to be a simpler one, it is advisable to choose a simple background. After all this, a harder part of the game comes in hand as one has to provide to each sprite a certain command to do. This is in accordance to the game maker that you use, as it will help you to choose the right commands.

The next step into how to make computer games, is to add another object, therefore, one has to give a right click on the objects and then click add, and when choosing the sprite and this time around you choose a solid block. Then at the next step, when you actually make the objects to interact, you have to click on the object and add event and then select “collision” , then pick the wall sprite and then again on the side menu, choose the movement again, click the arrows apart from the stop middle button and change the speed to 0 and then tick the relative box.

Then click the add event on the same item, click on mouse and a drop down menu has to appear, on which you will have to click left button. In the side menu, one can click on the movement commands one has been using and then click all the boxes all over again without clicking on the stop one, and then click ok. In the final stage of creating a game, one should put all the command points in order. Creating the levels will be a far easier thing to do, as you will have to click right on the rooms’ folder, click add room, and the level editing box will appear. You have to make this for each room one has.

Even though these are the easiest steps that one may take in creating a game, there are various other ways of creating you personal computer game. You can as well get informed relating the game creation possibilities by accessing some website like www.gamemaker.nl, http://www.allitis.com/agast/, http/gamedev.sourceforge.net/ and many others.