Product Comparisons
The Games Factory 2 -- Multimedia Fusion 2 -- Multimedia Fusion 2 Developer |
All three of the products are built upon the same revolutionary visual programming interface. If your experienced with one of the titles you will feel right at home with one of the other titles when you are ready to upgrade.
Below is a feature chart that shows the differences between the products.
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Games Factory 2 |
Multimedia Fusion 2 |
MMF2 Developer |
Editors & User Interface |
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| StoryBoard |
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| Frame Editor |
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| Event Editor |
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| Data Editor |
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| Picture & Animation Editor |
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| Event List Editor |
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| Data Editor: list of extensions used by the application |
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| Projects Files |
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| Alpha Channels |
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| Embeded binary files |
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Games Factory 2 |
Multimedia Fusion 2 |
MMF2 Developer |
Objects |
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| Backdrop |
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| Quick Backdrop |
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| Active |
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| Counter |
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| Score |
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| Lives |
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| String |
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| Formatted Text |
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| Question & Answer |
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| Sub-Application |
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| Animation |
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| Active Picture |
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| Array |
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| AVI |
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| Button |
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| CD Audio |
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| Clock |
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| ComboBox |
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| Edit |
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| File |
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| Hiscore |
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| INI |
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| Joystick |
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| Layer |
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| ListBox |
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| MCI |
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| Mixer |
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| Mpeg |
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| Picture |
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| Print |
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| QuickTime |
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| Shared Data |
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| Static Text |
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| Vitalize Plugin (Web Content) |
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| Window Control |
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| Window Shape |
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| ActiveX |
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| Active and Background System Box |
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| Capture |
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| Click Blocker |
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| Cursor |
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| DirectShow |
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| FTP |
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| Network |
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| ODBC |
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| Popup Menu |
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| RichEdit |
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| Search |
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| Data Grid |
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| Dialogue Box |
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| Double Precision Calculator |
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| Explorer |
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| List View |
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| OS |
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| Trial Period |
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Games Factory 2 |
Multimedia Fusion 2 |
MMF2 Developer |
Graphic Format File Types Supported |
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| BMP |
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| FLI/FLC |
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| GIF |
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| JPEG |
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| PCX |
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| PNG |
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| AVI |
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| TGA |
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Games Factory 2 |
Multimedia Fusion 2 |
MMF2 Developer |
Sound Format File Types Supported |
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| WAV |
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| MOD |
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| OGG Vorbis |
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Games Factory 2 |
Multimedia Fusion 2 |
MMF2 Developer |
Additional Features |
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| Ability to select the graphic and sound filters to include to the stand-alone applications |
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| Ability to use a frame as setup screen for screen savers |
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| Interface: Ability to export & import the toolbar settings. |
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| Interface: user tools in Tools menu. |
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| Interface: ability to create other toolbars. |
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| Ability to play external sample and music files without the need of extension object. |
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| Movement extensions |
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| Extension SDK to develop extensions |
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| Royalty free commercial runtime - Subject to runtime agreement |
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| Royalty free, logo and credit free - (no commercial runtime agreement required) |
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| Ability/rights to change the version information of the EXE files |
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| Ability to build MDI applications |
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| Ability to dock sub-applications |
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| Ability to create frames without display surface (to save memory for frames that contains only controls and child windows) |
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