Game Maker

Has anyone used this program before? I'm really quite impressed with it. It's really easy to learn and use and is quite capable of making professional quality 2d and 3d games easily, not to mention the huge community that Game Maker has.

Beginners (like myself) can use the event/action system and their own custom sprites to create fun and addictive 2d games while the more advanced users can dive into GML (game maker language an interpreted programming language) and custom libraries to create professional looking 3d games.

It's really cool! I defiantly recommend it to anyone who is interested in creating their own games.

I'm doing a game development course (I'm really loving the course btw the teachers are great!) and the first assignment for our game design class is to create a maze game in Game Maker with various requirements set by the teacher, I only started it a few hours ago but here is what I have so far: Here are some screenshots of games created using game maker: If anyone is interested in game maker, check it out here.

So has anyone used this program before? Has anyone made any games using Game Maker?

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Yeah I was really addicted to it before, and made some simple (and never finished) games with it before.

Niborius said:
Yeah I was really addicted to it before, and made some simple (and never finished) games with it before.

I think i have over 35 unfinished projects that I've made with it.

I can't believe you have never used GM before aaron.

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yea, looks like a really versatile program. I've heard of it, but never used it before. Couldn't imagine how it's able to create all those different types of games. What would you run a game in made by that program? Is it flash-based? or some other "engine"?

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Riven said:
yea, looks like a really versatile program. I've heard of it, but never used it before. Couldn't imagine how it's able to create all those different types of games. What would you run a game in made by that program? Is it flash-based? or some other "engine"?

The actual program itself is made in delphi or whatever you call it, but the games made in it are made in "GML", Game maker language.

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"Riven" said:
yea, looks like a really versatile program. I've heard of it, but never used it before. Couldn't imagine how it's able to create all those different types of games. What would you run a game in made by that program? Is it flash-based? or some other "engine"?

It's surprisingly very intuitive which is why I'm so impressed. By default, the game is exported as a single exe file with all the content embedded inside the exe file but I've downloaded games created by Game Maker which have the levels and art content and all that in separate files/folders.

"thehalflifeman33" said:
I think i have over 35 unfinished projects that I've made with it.

Including that Portal remake eh?

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