Free game maker

Fighter_Ace · Post by **Fighter_Ace** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:06 am

frawsty wrote:ya but they have had lots of time to learn GM and improve their games. dont worry man. make your first game then improve it.

Yeah, I am currently learning GML... it is hard. I printed out 117 pages of this stuff, GML help pages! Am I crazy or what?! I guess I just have a big dream of being a programmer!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:08 am

Hi folks. I found this forum yesterday and downloaded game maker already. What I want to learn about it is how to use a turnbased system rather than real time, and also a map that is not just a picture, but a grid of either hexagons or squares. I can do my own graphics(I've used paintbrush since I was 4), and have also used VB and Klick and Play now and then. I want to make games kind of like MOAB and Slay, since Ive done that a lot with homemade boardgames.

frawsty · Post by **frawsty** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:06 pm

read the tutorials, guest. its all their.

GML is pretty easy, I had some advanced stuff i was trying to do that i couldnt in the GUI so i looked it up. its just like c++.

check out my new game: Crypt Robber
http://www.funkyfreshdesigns.com/forum/ ... um.php?f=7

It's a work in progress but playable. At this writing it has only one crypt with 7 levels...each gets tougher. now im working on making other crypts and a hidden "ancient crypt" or a pyramid. anyway its getting better everyday!

guest · Post by **guest** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:39 pm

Fighter_Ace wrote:
frawsty wrote:ya but they have had lots of time to learn GM and improve their games. dont worry man. make your first game then improve it.
Yeah, I am currently learning GML... it is hard. I printed out 117 pages of this stuff, GML help pages! Am I crazy or what?! I guess I just have a big dream of being a programmer!

heheheh i started printing this moster then reliezed it was
HUGE so stopped...

frawsty · Post by **frawsty** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:30 pm

dont worry about the manual. follow the tutorials to get yourself going. think of the manual as a reference for when you get more advanced. ive only just looked at it a couple of times this weekend. for the most part i havent needed it.

guest · Post by **guest** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 7:28 pm

frawsty wrote:read the tutorials, guest. its all their.

GML is pretty easy, I had some advanced stuff i was trying to do that i couldnt in the GUI so i looked it up. its just like c++.

check out my new game: Crypt Robber
http://www.funkyfreshdesigns.com/forum/ ... um.php?f=7

It's a work in progress but playable. At this writing it has only one crypt with 7 levels...each gets tougher. now im working on making other crypts and a hidden "ancient crypt" or a pyramid. anyway its getting better everyday!

okay it gets stuck on the opening map for me
after i hit space to start the game...

i run a WINXP with 256m ram 64m vidram 30gig hd...

frawsty · Post by **frawsty** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 7:36 pm

click the little icon of the crypt and it should take you to the first level. i should put that in the instructions

guest · Post by **guest** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:48 pm

frawsty wrote:click the little icon of the crypt and it should take you to the first level. i should put that in the instructions

good job it works nice...a little slow on the click the crypt thing?
VERY COOL music..sounds

Astragali · Post by **Astragali** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:50 am

Quitch wrote:Anyone ever use the programs Klick & Play and Games Factory? Ah, those were the days...

For certain types of games, The Games Factory SUCKED!

If you wanted to have a large number of buttons (e.g. if you were doing something like Slingo, which needs around 30+ buttons), then the editor would become horribly unstable and crash...

I was really disappointed with TGF considering it was by Francois Lionet, creator of the excellent AMOS Basic...

guest · Post by **guest** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 5:23 pm

go back and look some more they are really creating
some nice games...even networkable....

Old Man Johnson · Post by **Old Man Johnson** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:31 am

I was frustrated by Games Factory because I was bad at programming. So I didn't understnad anything. Now I can't find my activation code and my new computer doesn't have GF installed (and I'm too lazy to go find it). Sigh. Oh well, at least I have Visual Basic.

Legacy · Post by **Legacy** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:50 am

You use VB OMJ?

sid6.7 · Post by **sid6.7** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:07 am

Old Man Johnson wrote:I was frustrated by Games Factory because I was bad at programming. So I didn't understnad anything. Now I can't find my activation code and my new computer doesn't have GF installed (and I'm too lazy to go find it). Sigh. Oh well, at least I have Visual Basic.

just email them they will give you another code or your old code...

Old Man Johnson · Post by **Old Man Johnson** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 12:17 am

Oh....

sharon_2005 · Post by **sharon_2005** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:20 am

Nice avatar frawsty