13th Slayer
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This thingy allows you to make games w/o programming.
Get it at http://www.yoyogames.com\make

vinheim
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Yeah, but to make good games, you need a bit of good coding knowledge. The drag-and-drop system is, in my opinion, harder to use now than coding. Still, a great program, though.

13th Slayer
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Just go to http://www.yoyogames.com\browse and see what great games have people made with it. Oh, yes. If you enable Advanced Mode, than you can put scripts in your game.

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Game Maker is superb and mostly free.

It still does take some work creating games though.

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It reminds me of the Games Factory (previously known as Klik & Play) - allowing you to create various straightforward games without any coding knowledge. Limited in some ways, but you can still produce some damned fine games.

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I know a number of really great games that are created with Gamemaker (mostly programmed by Matt Thorson of helixgamesinc.com), but due to the way that gamemaker compiles the games, Wine has trouble running them, for 1 reason or another. This saddens me, and turns me off Gamemaker, because I prefer to be able to play my games.

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aztcg7 wrote:
I know a number of really great games that are created with Gamemaker (mostly programmed by Matt Thorson of helixgamesinc.com)

Seiklus isn't by that guy, and it's great.

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DROD has some really great music.
Make your pressure plates 3.0 style!
DROD architecture idea generator

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Jumper is my personal favorite GM series. It has that perfect combination of simplicity and pure evil that can keep you playing for hours.

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13th Slayer
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My GM favorite is Techno the Hedgehog. Im planning to make Drod with it, too. Not sure if this is possible,though.

vinheim
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Its possible, ive tried, mine is slow though. I like the games by Vertigo (Acidbomb, The Sandbox of god). If you go on the forums and go to the 'Staff's choice' board, there is a great adventure game where you control a cute-ish spaceman. The old gamemaker homepage had some great games aswell.

Games i've made:
The two gems of platformness (released, people say it was like Jumper because of the graphics and gameplay)
Codebreaker (collect codes to use in the side-scrolling platformer on a grid like DRoD, Stonebreaker code removes stone helmets from enemies making them weaker, some codes boost how many grid squares you can jump, not released)

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vinheim wrote:
Its possible, ive tried, mine is slow though. I like the games by Vertigo (Acidbomb, The Sandbox of god). If you go on the forums and go to the 'Staff's choice' board, there is a great adventure game where you control a cute-ish spaceman. The old gamemaker homepage had some great games aswell.

Games i've made:
The two gems of platformness (released, people say it was like Jumper because of the graphics and gameplay)
Codebreaker (collect codes to use in the side-scrolling platformer on a grid like DRoD, Stonebreaker code removes stone helmets from enemies making them weaker, some codes boost how many grid squares you can jump, not released)

great! Can you post your Drod here? Maybe its slow because your computer is slow.

vinheim
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Actually, I made it on my laptop (I've been using my sister's this whole time). My laptop's not with me, but basically I did what Googa did with wonderquest. I made a whole different system. His one was the classes thing with the archer, etc. My one used elements from the maze tutorial on the gamemaker homepage (Pushing boulders around, using keys and gems to open doors and weapon types. A fire sword can burn through thorns while an axe can spin forwards like a boomerang through 3 obstacles at most.)

13th Slayer
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Well, when youll be back, let me see it.

vinheim
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Like I said, its on my laptop, around 3 days around the world from aeroplane (airplane?). So no chance of me getting it 'til after college (and I'm still in highschool)

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vinheim wrote:
aeroplane (airplane?)

Both can be correct, depending on location -- "aeroplane" is English, "airplane" is American.