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Confusion between Strides Game Creator and Strides OctopusFiled Under: Strides Octopus, Updates

Alright people, some of you might have heard of these 2 names floating around for quite some time.

It’s actually wrong to think that they’re different products altogether.

Actually, they’re referring to the same product - Strides Octopus. So why is there a Game Creator term floating around?

The reason is, Strides Octopus, on its own does not sound like an application that can create games. The rationale here is to market a Game Creation Tool from Strides Interactive and thus came the term - Strides Game Creator.

This definition also applies to Strides Game Contents Editor as well

Therefore, Strides Octopus is the overall main application encompassing the entire game creation solution.

Next, what’s the difference between Strides Octopus and Strides Script IDE?

Strides Octopus is a term that is analogous to a real octopus with 8 legs. An octopus has also been found to be extremely intelligent and is able to absorb and learn user inputs very very quickly.

In this application, we’ll have a few types of tools; typically separated into 3 categories:
1) General Editors
2) Strides Script IDE
3) Utilities

General Editors are considered ancient tools that were already around during the Jedi Wing 1 period. (dates back to year 2003). These tools’ output are directly read by the game engine and addressed using binds or FOAs.

Strides Script IDE is the major tool that has evolved the most throughout this project’s history. This is because, this IDE serves as a orchestration and launch center for newly created games. This means you have the power to develop games from it and launch your game directly from the IDE. Unlike code-based IDEs, there is no debug or release modes. Instead, this IDE gives you WYSIWYG (What you see if what you get) directly without any frills.

Utilities are smaller individual tools that work in tandem to accelerate the time-to-ship cycle. It contains many little small easter eggs which may give you unexpected surprises.

With all these functionalities bundled into a single launch application - Strides Octopus, it becomes a game creation platform instead of a simple set of editors.

Therefore, I hope this post will help resolve any further confusion.

Regards,

Jeremy

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