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Yes, I'll betcha that Game-Maker was used by lots of groups of friends but of course, of all of those only a few manage to learn to work together to the point where they can come up with something! I can envision sort of Game-Maker clubs springing up to meet on weekends, where everyone pitches ideas and shares insights – I guess not all that different from the demoscene, over in Europe. I like this whole collaborative arrangement.
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Not just software or programming, everything. And of course, we realized that it would be pretty hard for a ten to twelve-year-old to do it all himself so there were practical considerations.Īnd growing up we were always doing projects together. It actually made the process more fun and the games a lot better.
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Is it one flat green color? I remember showing my mom how to speckle other colors around to make grass look like grass instead of a boring flat green field. I mean for example there are techniques to make something look good in a 20x20 block. Well, at home we would show, suggest, and work on each other's games quite a bit. They almost suggest more of a creative collective than discrete authorship. I was thinking about the attitude in your magazine ads, and how strongly they focused on loading up and tweaking others' work. It's good to reestablish contact! So what sort of resources do you still have around from the RSD era?
Andrew Stone to talk about Game-Maker and the place that it holds in indie game history. RSD never built an online presence, and aside from a few scattered users Game-Maker failed to make much of an impression on the Web – leaving a void, eventually for Mark Overmars to fill. Unfortunately RSD ceased development just before the Web became established, and right on the verge of a radical reinvention of the software. Still others, such as Seiklus author cly5m, graduated to become superstars of the modern indie scene. Morris, found their careers in game design. Some users, like Liight programmer Roland Ludlam and Bionic Commando associate producer James W. Some games, such as Jeremy LaMar’s Blinky series, became cult hits. Game-Maker had its glitches and its limitations, but a skilled designer could put out games comparable with the high-profile shareware of the time.
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Its editing tools were powerful and intuitive, allowing quick turnaround of sprites and background tiles, and easy assembly into full games. RSD’s Game-Maker supported VGA graphics, four-way scrolling, Sound Blaster music and effects, full-screen animations, large maps, and fully animated characters and monsters. In 1991 a company called Recreational Software Designs released its own game creation system for DOS. In early 2013, the indie scene is again one of the most vibrant regions of the development community.
Then in the mid-2000s, thanks to the growth of social networking and the advance of boxed game design kits like Mark Overmars’ Game Maker, a new generation of bedroom developers appeared, to fill in the creative void that some felt in the mainstream industry. For about a decade, the bedroom developers all but vanished. As PCs became a household appliance, competition for the glitziest showpiece went bananas.
File sizes went up, coding got more complicated, and development got more expensive. All of those bulletin boards dried up, as did their ratio-based uploading, so there was no distribution. In the mid-‘90s, the Internet hit the mainstream. Creativity exploded, giving rise to games like Commander Keen, Jill of the Jungle, and Doom. Add in a growing network of dial-up boards, and you have distribution. After a decade of hacking and add-ons, the hardware reached a level where a bedroom programmer could attempt the fast-paced action of arcade and console games. The problem was, PCs were built for business rather than leisure. Thanks to the crash of ’84, they were also the only major outlet for North American game design. In the early ‘90s, PCs were the realm of the tinkerer and the white-collar professional.