End-of-Week Community Links
December 10, 2010
- Why Game Maker for Mac matters – Uriel Griffin on why creating Game Maker for Mac was a worthwhile step for YoYo Games. Rather than focusing on the IDE Uriel writes about the emergence of Mac as a gaming platform ahead of the launch of the Mac App Store.
- Mrme picks up on the fact that the new Lite version of Game Maker 7 for Mac can’t create executables. He goes on to say the exclusion “will likely show up in GM9”. I think the comment is throwaway speculation but if the removal of the feature to create executables happens I imagine there will be a considerable bunch of unhappy Game Maker users.
- The results of a Game Maker game marketing survey undertaken at various community sites have been released and are visible in a slideshow. GameGeisha has made a nice post on the findings.
[…] Lite version of Game Maker 7 for Mac has always been unable to export games in a format playable without having Game Maker […]
I don’t really think that they will remove .exe creation from future versions of GM. The reason why there’s no exe creation on GM4MacLite is because there’s a security flaw that makes it very easy to remove the ‘Made with Game Maker’ banner: a security flaw I reported myself.
I daresay that’s why GM Lite can’t compile .app files at the moment.
Not to jump to conclusions, but removing exe creation from lite would be pretty freaking sad. I can only think of how many awesome games I’ve played this year that were lite only.