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- From: dmatiske@nd.edu (David Matiskella)
- Subject: Re: GAME.MAKER
- Message-ID: <dmatiske-191192161314@archmacconsultant.architecture.lab.nd.edu>
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- Organization: University of Notre Dame
- References: <SPURCELL.92Nov18001251@galadriel.mcd.intel.com> <1ef2ddINNe18@TIGER.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU> <Bxz3qJ.EBM@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:16:18 GMT
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- In article <Bxz3qJ.EBM@acsu.buffalo.edu>, goetz@acsu.buffalo.edu (Phil
- Goetz) wrote:
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > > 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.
- >
- > It sounds like Broderbund's _Arcade Machine_
- > (Apple //, about 1983), but adapted for different types of games.
- >
- > Phil
- Well I have used several of these various tools for making arcade
- games/adventure games.
- The problem I find is that all of the ones I have used have no way of
- making have intelligent
- monsters. So the Question I have is in GameMaker how do you define a
- Monsters actions?
- Is it simply the monster follows a path or is thier a minilanuage so that
- you could have the
- monster react on the fly to play actions
-