Clickteam is a French

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company based in

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. Founded by Francis Poulain, François Lionet and Yves Lamoureux, Clickteam is best known for the creation of Clickteam Fusion, a

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-free

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that allows users to create

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s or other interactive software using a highly advanced event system.

History

Before co-founding Clickteam, François Lionet was the programmer of

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, a

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released in 1988 for the Atari ST, and

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, a more advanced

released in 1990 for the Commodore

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. Both of these have since been released in

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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. Clickteam's debut software was ''Klik & Play'', released in 1994 as

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; this marked the team's first successful software release. A version for educational use, dubbed ''Klik & Play For Schools'', was also released as

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, to be used exclusively for school activities. ''Klik & Play For Schools'' was available for download in Clickteam's website during the course of 2006, now being available for the public in general. Subsequent releases included, released in 1996, Clickteam's second product, ''Click and Create'' later renamed ''Multimedia Fusion Express'' which included more advanced features which the original ''Klik & Play'' lacked, such as scrolling, and a timeline editor, 3D game-making tool ''Jamagic''; ''The Games Factory''; ''The Games Factory 2''; and ''Multimedia Fusion''. Clickteam's most recent application is ''Clickteam Fusion 2.5 (CF 2.5)''. This title is the successor to ''Multimedia Fusion 2'', the company's most well-received software application to date. In September 2016 Clickteam partnered with the

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and offered a ''Fusion 2.5'' centered bundle. Around ten games and Fusion 2.5 with various export modules were offered in the ''"Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Bundle"''. Notably, for several games the

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was included. On 11 January 2019, Clickteam announced a new DLC for Clickteam Fusion 2.5, named Clickteam Fusion 2.5+. It introduced new features such as child events, which only run if their parent events are true, support for DirectX11, new output window in the debugger, a profiler, and more. The aim of Clickteam Fusion 2.5+ was to make it easier to manage and organize large projects, as well as to improve performance of games created with the software.

Products

The Fusion series was designed to be a

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yet powerful drag-and-drop game and application creation program, easily accessible to either those well-versed or inexperienced in programming.

Software and video game development software

* ''Klik & Play (KnP)'' - Originally created by Europress Software (Francois Lionet/Yves Lamoureux 1994) * ''Click and Create (CnC)'' - Later renamed Multimedia Fusion Express. * ''The Games Factory (TGF)'' * ''The Games Factory 2 (TGF2)'' * ''Multimedia Fusion (MMF)'' * ''Multimedia Fusion 2 (MMF2)'' * ''Clickteam Fusion 2.5 (CF2.5)'' * ''Fusion 3'' (release date TBA) Runtime export modules for Clickteam Fusion 2.5 are available for

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, XNA, Android,

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, UWP and for

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Other products

* ''Install Creator'' (previously Install Maker) * ''Patch Maker'' (to package patches) * ''SynchronX'' ( Directory synchronization) * ''Jamagic'' (2003) Vitalize! was another product offered by Clickteam, functioning as a browser plugin similar to

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, Adobe Shockwave Player and

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, which was discontinued in 2012.

Clickteam Engine games

Some of the most notable games made using Clickteam Engines are: * ''

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'' series (2014-) * '' Trap Adventure 2'' (2016) * Mr. Hopp's Playhouse Series (2019-) * '' The Sea Will Claim Everything'' (2012) made in Clickteam Fusion Developer 2.5 by

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* ''

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'' (2014) –

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* '' I Wanna Be the Guy'' (2007) – made in Multimedia Fusion 2 * ''

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'' (2015) * '' Spark the Electric Jester'' (2017) * '' Baba Is You'' (2019) – made in Multimedia Fusion 2 * '' Mario Forever'' (2003) - made in Multimedia Fusion 1.5

References

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