Game Maker Help Thread (Post your Qs here!)

[Legion]

Thanks man. I am a very computer literate person and I am very persevering. Would you still recommend trying something like game maker first?

EDIT: I'm busy reading through this thread from the beginning and it sounds as if you can do a lot in GM. I'm just worried that C++ might not be anything like GM. Is it?

Here and there the syntax has similarities... it's a border language.


I used to be pro GM but mark overmars forum lackey's saw fit to ban me for pointing out his old interpreter "runner" is flawed and horridly slow "try using some high level .dll's in GM8 and you will see what i mean"

Since then i have not touched GM again.
But since then it was updated to use a compiler instead.
So it's a bit faster.

GM is a great tool to quickly test ideas and make simple 2D games.
It's 3D functions are utter junk "that's why we used dll's"

So if it's easy to use and learn coding you want with a massive lack of power and control... ye go ahead and use GM.
Else learn C++ and write the exam when you feel confident... "at least that can go on your CV"
Where as saying i program in game maker will get me laughed out of a interview.

Idk.. my personal opinion may not share your views.

[dislekcia]

Also, Legion is a bit of a troll... I wouldn't give his randomly emotionally driven analysis much weight when it came to producing games ;)

Worrying that C++ might not be like GM is completely the wrong thing to be worrying about. Once you know the basics of programming, the actual language that you write in is pretty much arbitrary. Give me a programming reference and a few examples and I can write in anything you want. The important thing is learning the basics and how to think about programming, you can learn that in Game Maker easier than you can learn that in something that forces all sorts of busywork on you like C++ does. But you can always move to C++ later, once you're more comfortable with coding AND have a better understanding of what goes into coding game logic - which is vastly different to "engine" code. It's far too easy to get sucked into trying to make a couple of triangles appear on screen for months and months of your life, and then when you do get that right you still don't actually have anything resembling a game.

[Legion]

Also, Legion is a bit of a troll... I wouldn't give his randomly emotionally driven analysis much weight when it came to producing games ;)

Worrying that C++ might not be like GM is completely the wrong thing to be worrying about. Once you know the basics of programming, the actual language that you write in is pretty much arbitrary. Give me a programming reference and a few examples and I can write in anything you want. The important thing is learning the basics and how to think about programming, you can learn that in Game Maker easier than you can learn that in something that forces all sorts of busywork on you like C++ does. But you can always move to C++ later, once you're more comfortable with coding AND have a better understanding of what goes into coding game logic - which is vastly different to "engine" code. It's far too easy to get sucked into trying to make a couple of triangles appear on screen for months and months of your life, and then when you do get that right you still don't actually have anything resembling a game.

It's just a avatar... nothing more.
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[Joel Fire]

Hello, I'm Mr.Fire, I can see some familiar C# coding here in this thread? I'm still new at game development! Though were is there a link to Game.Dev on this site for local developers and what other sources do you (dislekcia) recommend?