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- From: goetz@acsu.buffalo.edu (Phil Goetz)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer
- Subject: Re: GAME.MAKER
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 17:11:03 GMT
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- In article <1ef2ddINNe18@TIGER.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU> stone-andy@cs.yale.edu (Andy Stone) writes:
- >
- >In article <SPURCELL.92Nov18001251@galadriel.mcd.intel.com>
- >spurcell@galadriel.mcd.intel.com (Stacy Purcell ~) writes:
- >
- >> Have any of you ever used GAME MAKER from Recreational Software
- >> Designs? It is supposedly software to aid in creating arcade games
- >> and adventure games, sort of a video game construction kit.
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- > Yes, I've used Game-Maker quite extensively. In fact, I've
- >probably used it more then anyone else, because I also wrote it!
- >Although in most cases my testimony would be suspect, in this case, it
- >really is not. Why? Because there is NOTHING ELSE to compare it to --
- >there isn't any competing product to steal our sales.
- >...
- > 2: Game Maker is a completely new product type.
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- It sounds like Broderbund's _Arcade Machine_
- (Apple //, about 1983), but adapted for different types of games.
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- Phil
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