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  Game-Maker.nl - Leer zelf games maken
Game Maker is een programma waarmee je zelf spelletjes kunt maken, zonder dat je daarvoor een programmeertaal hoeft te leren.
De Game Maker Language is speciaal ontwikkeld voor dit programma.
Game Maker is een uitgave van The Game Maker Company.
www.game-maker.nl   (140 words)

  
  Game Maker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Game Maker's engine has improved over the years and has become much faster -- especially in the graphics area -- allowing one to use alpha and blending functions for their game's sprites.
The Game Maker Language (often abbreviated to GML) is a flexible scripting language within Game Maker which allows for users to further enhance and control the design of their game through conventional programming, as opposed to the default drag-and-drop system.
Game Maker was written by Mark Overmars, a Professor of the University of Utrecht, partly as a teaching aid for his students.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Game_Maker   (1094 words)

  
 Game Maker Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Game Maker Language (GML) is a scripting programming language developed for use with a computer game creation application called Game Maker.
Game Maker comes with a default library that contains the common actions used by most game makers, but it is also possible to create libraries using the Library builder provided separately from Game Maker.
In Game Maker one can add plenty of different resources to a game, such as sprites, music, backgrounds, etc. However, GML has no particular pointer variable type to reference this in code.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Game_Maker_Language   (1610 words)

  
 Programming:Game Maker - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
'Game Maker' by Mark Overmars, which we deal with in these tutorials is not to be confused with 'GameMaker' or 'The 3D Game Maker'.
Game Maker is a game development software application written by Mark Overmars in the Delphi programming language.
Game Maker is not as widely known or as used as other game development programs, such as the RPG School (RPG maker) series for Role-playing games.
en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Game_Maker   (468 words)

  
 Game Maker Profiles - poetkathi
One of my favorite computer games is a breakout style game so I went in search of an easy to play breakout game suitable for a small child just beginning to use a mouse.
Remember that in playing games fun is subjective and what might be fun for one is boring for someone else.
Game play is one of the most important elements because that's why I'm playing.
autofish.net /creation/video_games/game_maker/profiles/poetkathi.html   (910 words)

  
 Gamehippo.com :: View topic - Best game maker to make a side-scroller...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
There is a listing of all the games and samples that have been collected for SGDK at http://gamedevprj.sourceforge.net/.
Game Maker, found at www.gamemaker.nl, is a lot better than The Scrolling Games Development Kit.
Because Game Maker is for most anything, it is FAR superior to The Scrolling Game Development Kit.
gamehippo.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12531&...   (1296 words)

  
 Hark The Sound: Game Maker   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Game Maker is the first version of a tool to make the process or making new games for Hark The Sound easier.
Type in the name you would like your game to be called when it is listed in Hark in the text box and press OK. Pressing Cancel at this point will close the box and not save your game, allowing you to further edit it.
The original name of the game will be in the text box, if you would like to overwrite the game with your changes, just press OK. If you would like to save this edited game under another name, enter that name in the text box and press OK.
www.cs.unc.edu /Research/assist/Hark/GameMaker.html   (691 words)

  
 GameMaker Home Page
If your game was made with a version of GameMaker older than v1.5, you may need to use the GameConverter application to convert the game file to at least v1.5.
Games created with GameMaker can be compiled into stand alone applications so that no other software is needed to run them.
If you're trying to play a game that was created by someone else, try using the GM Old Compiled Game Updater to patch the game engine to a newer version or contact the author of the game to see if a newer version of the game is available.
members.aol.com /AlStaff/GameMakerHelp.html   (2370 words)

  
 Game Maker Community (Powered by Invision Power Board)
This forum is the place for you to announce your Game Maker related web sites to the rest of the community.
This forum is meant for discussions about games in general, both commercial games and free games.
It does not have to be related to Game Maker.
gmc.yoyogames.com   (658 words)

  
 Game Maker
Game Maker has been written to make it easier for people to design and make their own computer games.
Though you may not be able to make games like Quake (they take teams of programmers years to make), you can still make games that are lots of fun to play.
You don't have to write programming code to be able to make games with Game Maker, though it does have a built in programming language to give you full control of your game if you want.
www.mindtools.tased.edu.au /gamemaker   (466 words)

  
 Game Maker Profiles - Simon Donkers
It was a real basic Snake game which ran far to slow to play but still kept me busy during my economy classes.
The incredible machine, a basic puzzle game made for the 1st Game Maker competition by Muzzle in which it won the 6th place.
The game I have played the most probably is Adom (www.adom.de) which is a wonderful example that shows that a game is not about graphics or sounds but that game play will do the trick.
www.autofish.net /creation/video_games/game_maker/profiles/simondonkers.html   (729 words)

  
 Game Maker
Game Maker is for 2D games, and once one is done with it, they should aim for 3D game design.
Aug 26 2004, 04:38 PM Yeah that is a pretty good game maker but i like to use gamer maker 2003 and soon xp because there easy to script.
GML (the Game Maker Language) may not be as good as C++, but it's great for beginners, and is good even for those who don't want to learn C++ or Delphi just yet.
www.trap17.com /index.php/game-maker_t1113.html   (1511 words)

  
 Game Maker - Free software downloads and reviews - CNET Download.com
Game Maker allows you to make exciting computer games without the need to write a single line of code.
Games can have backgrounds, animated graphics, music, and sound effects, and once you get more experienced there's a built-in programming language that gives you full flexibility.
What's best, Game Maker can be used completely free of charge, and you can use the games you produce any way you like.
www.download.com /Game-Maker/3000-2121_4-10070683.html   (1190 words)

  
 Game Maker Academy : : Scroller Competition
You can't use a game you're already working on, unless you started it less than a week before the start of the competition.
You can, however, use pieces of code from your past games or from examples, just as you normally would when making a game.
But remember that creativity is a major part of this competition, so you probably don't want your game to be too similar to another one.
www.gamemakeracademy.org /contest.html   (220 words)

  
 Krossfire - Game Maker
He was the first Romanian Game Maker user to register on the Game Maker Games community.
His game creation activity was pretty full, however none of the games from that period attracted attention (except for The Army of Darkness, a fairly complicated and buggy game).
His recent initiative (jan 2007), of forming a Game Creator Wikia as a homage to great game creators (such as shawn64) has not proved to be productive, an union with the GM Wiki being suggested.
gamemaker.wikia.com /wiki/Krossfire   (507 words)

  
 Game Maker : Download
Game Maker is a gamer design program that allows you to make your own computer games without having to learn any programming.
Game Maker lets you use drag-and-drop actions to make your games.
To start using Game Maker is free and you are free to use the games you make in any way you like.
www.gamediscovery.com /game-design/game-maker.asp   (103 words)

  
 Languages Online - Tetris Game Maker
To include a game in a learning management systems (such as Moddle or Blackboard) you must first 'zip' the game folder, and include this as a resource.
Games in one language can easily be translated into another language using the Game Maker.
For example, to translate a French game with pictures into Italian, load the French game into the Game Maker, change the text to Italian and then save the changes as a new game.
www.education.vic.gov.au /languagesonline/games/tetris/index.htm   (2045 words)

  
 The Escapist : Game Design Sketchbook: Perfectionism
At the end of the game, if players continued holding down the movement keys as the title screen faded in, a new game would be triggered very quickly by their unwitting key presses, barely giving the players a chance to notice that their first game had ended.
In designing a game to explore this issue, I thought about players tweaking some set of game objects toward a goal, but forcing them to decide how far toward the goal they needed to go.
If we give the players multiple sets of game objects and goals, and force them to divide their limited time among these "subprojects," they will need to make interesting decisions about which projects to polish, which to leave flawed, in which to skip completely.
www.escapistmagazine.com /articles/view/editorials/gamedesignsketchbook/3018-Game-Design-Sketchbook-Perfectionism   (734 words)

  
 Game Maker
space invaders design having struggled with game maker - and worried about enabling students - i decided to rewite the space invadrs v 3 as a design document.
I am hoping that you were all inspired by the Game Maker software and have returned to your schools and introduced it to your students.  If you have started using it back at school:
Game maker looks good and can see a lot of the DiDA group wanting to use it after they have completed D202.
gamemaker.ethink.org.uk   (687 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Technology | Game maker Ubisoft fights back
At the recent E3 games expo in Los Angeles, Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot urged shareholders to hold on to their stocks, saying the value of the company would double in the next two years.
EA, the world's largest games company, showed an interest in Ubisoft in December when it bought 20% of the firm.
Among the big name titles on display were the game of Peter Jackson's King Kong, a console version of the PC hit game Far Cry, a new Prince of Persia, and a version of Ghost Recon 3 for the Xbox 360.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/technology/4586171.stm   (496 words)

  
 Game Maker - GmailForums   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Game Makeris a free program that you can make games on it only by using Drag and Drop or GML (Game Maker Language) For more info visit http://www.gamemaker.nl
Game maker and rpg maker are both great but different.
Game Maker 6 is not the simplest thing to use, and I noticed that its help file tells you what each function does instead of how to use it well, but can make really great games.
www.gmailforums.com /index.php?showtopic=10219&view=getlastpost   (649 words)

  
 Trying out Game Editor, you know Game Maker?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Game Editor is optimized for lower end hardware, so there's no question about the speed.
I'm a professional mobile games artist and use a pretty mature level design tool at work, so I am a little tempted to turn away from GE now, but keep reassuring myself that it will get better in time.
Game Editor, from what I've seen, makes it a little more intuitive to modify instances of objects on screen.
game-editor.com /forum/viewtopic.php?p=5580   (710 words)

  
 MyTheme.com :: View topic - Making games with Game Maker
The green one is for running the game in regular mode and the red is for running in debug mode.
Game Maker comes with several free sprites for you to use.
Game Maker should automatically point the window to the directory containing its free sprites.
www.picgames.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=11622   (4186 words)

  
 Game Maker Games Directory @ www.ezboard.com
This is the Game Maker Games Directory, or GMGD for short, which is managed by Final2005 (ezboard account=FinalFantasy2005) and ShadedFlame.
Games based on the Sonic the Hedgehog series may be posted here.
Games based on games other than the ones mentioned above may be posted here.
pub39.ezboard.com /bgamemakergamesdirectory   (235 words)

  
 3D Game Maker
There are two cassettes in the box you get with Game Maker, a sprite editor, a room designer and a game which you can play your designs on.
Unfortunately you can't play your game on its own, or give copies to your friends, as the designs won't play unless they've been loaded into the game.
I can imagine the average games designer tearing his hair out with boredom and frustration after a few minutes of this.
www.ysrnry.co.uk /articles/3dgamemaker.htm   (596 words)

  
 game maker...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Create a video game using the technology of Game Maker.
Learn how to design and modify your own exciting PC game by studying examples from Game Maker and analyzing the codes used.
Game Maker is a freeware game engine designed by Dr. Mark Overmars of the Computer Science Department of the University of Utrecht.
www.saturdayacademy.pdx.edu /classes-spring03/game-maker.htm   (150 words)

  
 Simon's Game Maker website
Pacman is a simple game I once created as part of my computer science class.
The incredible machine is a game I have created for the first official GM competitition.
The goal was to make a game with a limited set of given resources without the possibility to add new resources to the game.
www.freewebtown.com /simondonkers/games.htm   (176 words)

  
 GameSpy.com - Reviews: 3D Game Maker (PC)
The purpose of 3D Game Maker is to allow you to customize a game you want to make.
For the truly lazy there is an option to have the program randomly generate a game for you to play.
There are also some pre-made games you can play through to give you some idea of what the software can do.
archive.gamespy.com /reviews/october01/gamemaker   (553 words)

  
 GameSpy.com - Reviews: 3D Game Maker (PC)
The purpose of 3D Game Maker is to allow you to customize a game you want to make.
For the truly lazy there is an option to have the program randomly generate a game for you to play.
There are also some pre-made games you can play through to give you some idea of what the software can do.
www.gamespy.com /reviews/october01/gamemaker   (553 words)

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