Comments on: Open Source Game Maker http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/ Gamemaker news, comment, discussion, opinion and community news Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:42:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Phil Gamble http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/comment-page-1/#comment-6376 Phil Gamble Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:04:34 +0000 http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/#comment-6376 <strong>vahid</strong>, you should try GameMaker: http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/ vahid, you should try GameMaker:
http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/

]]> By: vahid http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/comment-page-1/#comment-6375 vahid Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:57:52 +0000 http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/#comment-6375 please help me to find a good software which is useful game making and easy to work with. I am really excited about game programming but no one has knowledge about this branch around here. thanks please help me to find a good software which is useful game making and easy to work with. I am really excited about game programming but no one has knowledge about this branch around here.
thanks

]]> By: Jimmy James http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/comment-page-1/#comment-5926 Jimmy James Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:51:33 +0000 http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/#comment-5926 What about Construct! :) Scirra.com What about Construct! :)

Scirra.com

]]> By: Josh @ Dreamland http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/comment-page-1/#comment-5339 Josh @ Dreamland Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:09:24 +0000 http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/#comment-5339 That's probably Yoyo's way of saying "hell no." If GM went open source, they'd have to rethink encryption. The only way I see open-source mixing with encrypted material is if the encryption was more dynamic. Something Yoyo has failed to do. They can take notes when I finish ENIGMA. Only they'll be out of the picture. Jonathan-- www.enigma-dev.uni.cc That’s probably Yoyo’s way of saying “hell no.” If GM went open source, they’d have to rethink encryption. The only way I see open-source mixing with encrypted material is if the encryption was more dynamic. Something Yoyo has failed to do.

They can take notes when I finish ENIGMA. Only they’ll be out of the picture.

Jonathan–
http://www.enigma-dev.uni.cc

]]> By: Jonathan http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/comment-page-1/#comment-2380 Jonathan Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:32:11 +0000 http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/#comment-2380 What is this ENIGMA that you speak about? I can't seem to spot it through some Google searches. What is this ENIGMA that you speak about? I can’t seem to spot it through some Google searches.

]]> By: Eyas Sharaiha http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/comment-page-1/#comment-2364 Eyas Sharaiha Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:59:08 +0000 http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/#comment-2364 Well, true -- but that was when it was a one-man project, and it might not have been managed in the most effective way. Open sourcing software on SourceForge seems to work for many pieces of software, some of them much bigger than GM. Well, true — but that was when it was a one-man project, and it might not have been managed in the most effective way. Open sourcing software on SourceForge seems to work for many pieces of software, some of them much bigger than GM.

]]> By: Simon Donkers http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/comment-page-1/#comment-2363 Simon Donkers Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:57:41 +0000 http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/#comment-2363 Mark Overmars previously released other software programs open source. What he noticed was a huge increase in emails reporting bugs and complaining about the instability as well as requests for help with certain features where the manual was unclear. This increase of annoyance with users was because of unofficial buggy and undocumented versions filling the web. I know enough about the GMC to know that there will be very many buggy, undocumented, over hyped versions of Game Maker as well as many users who can't tell them apart and complain about them on the GMC. One must also note that the source code for Game Maker is very complex. There would be few people actually capable of creating non buggy programs with it. Personally I'm quite happy with a team of skilled paid programmers working on Game Maker and advancing it in a bug free well documented program. Mark Overmars previously released other software programs open source. What he noticed was a huge increase in emails reporting bugs and complaining about the instability as well as requests for help with certain features where the manual was unclear. This increase of annoyance with users was because of unofficial buggy and undocumented versions filling the web.

I know enough about the GMC to know that there will be very many buggy, undocumented, over hyped versions of Game Maker as well as many users who can’t tell them apart and complain about them on the GMC.

One must also note that the source code for Game Maker is very complex. There would be few people actually capable of creating non buggy programs with it.

Personally I’m quite happy with a team of skilled paid programmers working on Game Maker and advancing it in a bug free well documented program.

]]> By: bendodge http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/comment-page-1/#comment-2362 bendodge Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:33:37 +0000 http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/#comment-2362 ENIGMA seems to have a slight hope of actually making it to a first release, so I wouldn't consider Stencyl to be the only open-source competitor. ENIGMA seems to have a slight hope of actually making it to a first release, so I wouldn’t consider Stencyl to be the only open-source competitor.

]]> By: tuntis http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/comment-page-1/#comment-2361 tuntis Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:16:04 +0000 http://gamemakerblog.com/2007/11/06/open-source-game-maker/#comment-2361 Wow, we'll be expecting lots of forks made by morons that die in one day claiming to "MAEK GM PLAYABEL ON Xbox 360!11" Wow, we’ll be expecting lots of forks made by morons that die in one day claiming to “MAEK GM PLAYABEL ON Xbox 360!11″

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