We got lots of friends requests and following inquiries about the development of "Father's Island" and the extend of modding GameGuru in order to do so. We try to answer that as good as possible:
- As you may know, Father's Island was made with GameGuru. While it isn't Open Source or free, it has very reasonable costs and a generous license - basically you will never pay any kind of royalities for selling your games. You can check out and buy GameGuru here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/266310/
- You really don't need to learn programming to create a game like Father's Island. However, you will have to get a basic understanding of the LUA scripts powering the AI, entitiy behaviour and all interactions. If you do so, editing existing scripts, renaming and altering them to your needs is good enough to make almost any game imaginable.
- While Father'S Island has several custom 3D assets, buildings and props created for this game alone, the asset store of GameGuru will provide you with almost all you need.
- Timeferame: If you are on your own, calculate for roughly a year of work in your spare time to make a game like Father's Island. It took us 6 months of work with a small team to complete it.
Any questions left? Post them in our discussion board!