Clickteam

Clickteam

Clickteam logo
Type	Privately Owned
Industry	Computer software
Founded	Paris, France (1993)
Founder(s)	François Lionet Yves Lamoureux Francis Poulain
Headquarters	Paris, France
Key people	Francis Poulain, Financial Director Jeff Vance, CEO Clickteam USA Chris Carson, VP USA Operations DT Holder, VP Special Projects Rhon Schlick, Sales - Graphic Design Jason Darby, UK Sales & Marketing Manager
Products	Multimedia Fusion, Klik & Play, The Games Factory See other products
Website	Clickteam.com

Clickteam is a software company, founded in 1993 by François Lionet, Yves Lamoureux and Francis Poulain, headquartered in Paris, France. Clickteam is perhaps best known for the creation of a script-free programming tool that allows users to create video games or other interactive software using a range of GUI tools.

History

Before co-founding Clickteam, François Lionet was the programmer of STOS BASIC in 1988, a programming language for the Atari ST and in 1990 AMOS BASIC, a more advanced programming language for the Commodore Amiga. Both of these have since been released in open-source form on the Clickteam corporate website. Yves Lamoureux was also a successful game developer prior to co-founding Clickteam, working with multiple companies on games.^[1]

Products

Clickteam's debut software was Klik & Play released in 1994,^[2] this marked the team's first successful software release. Subsequent releases included Jamagic, a 3D game-making tool, The Games Factory, The Games Factory 2, and Multimedia Fusion. Clickteam's most recent application is Multimedia Fusion 2 (MMF2). Released worldwide June 30, 2006, the title is the successor to Multimedia Fusion the company's most well received software application to date. The MMF series was designed to be a user-friendly, yet powerful drag-and-drop game and application creation program; easily accessible to either those well-versed or inexperienced in programming.^[3][4]

Klik Range

• Klik & Play (KnP)
• The Games Factory (TGF)
• The Games Factory 2 (TGF2)
• Click and Create (Also known as Multimedia Fusion Express) (CnC)
• Multimedia Fusion (MMF)
• Multimedia Fusion 2 (MMF2)

Other products

• Install Creator (previously Install Maker)
• Patch Maker
• SynchronX
• Jamagic

Corporate leadership

Executive Board
François Lionet	Founding Developer
Yves Lamoureux	Founding Developer
Francis Poulain	Financial Director
Jeff Vance	Chief Executive Officer, Clickteam USA
Chris Carson	Vice President, USA Operations
DT Holder	Vice President, Special Projects
Rhon Schlick	Sales - Graphic Design

See also

• Klik

External links

• Official Clickteam site
• Neatwares Extensions List for MMF2 - A list of extensions for MMF2
• The Daily Click - A big community click site
• Game Builder - Another community click site
• Clickteam.com - STOS and AMOS source code download files

References

1. ^ "About Clickteam". The Company and The Products. Copyright © Clickteam 2010 All Rights Reserved. http://www.clickteam.com/website/usa/about-clickteam.html. Retrieved 27 January 2011. 
2. ^ Warren Buckleitner (in English). The Complete Sourcebook on Children's Software. Children's Software Revue, 2001. pp. 608. ISBN 1891983059, 9781891983054. http://books.google.com/books?ei=t49JTZCGBMGs8Aa_97meDg&ct=result&id=2BGxLDlrhp0C&dq=The+Complete+Sourcebook+on+Children%27s+Software&q=Klik+and+Play. Retrieved 2 February 2011. "Klik & Play ✓ Runs on Windows (disk or CD-ROM) 4.5****1/2 Maxis (Electronic Arts), 800-336-2947, www.maxis.com 1994, $54.95, ages 14-up ✓ Teaches creativity, logic Provides a set of 1000 animated objects..." 
3. ^ Alan Thorn (in English). Game Engine Design and Implementation (Revised ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2010. p. Page 26. ISBN 0763784516, 9780763784515. "Multimedia Fusion is a commercial, proprietary game engine designed and licensed by Clickteam for the creation of 2D games for Windows" 
4. ^ Clayton E. Crooks. Awesome 3D game development: no programming required (illustrated ed.). Cengage Learning, 2004. p. 72. ISBN 1584503254, 9781584503255. "Multimedia Fusion [...is a] development tool[...] mostly used for 2D games, but because it is the most well-rounded game development tool available in the non-programming category, it's a perfect way to start out. With it, you can create a wide variety of games, and the support from Clickteam (www.clickteam.com) is top notch."