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- From: rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>)
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- Subject: Re: Gamemaker
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.181126.6586@apgea.army.mil>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:11:26 GMT
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- In article <0seVXB1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> drz@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dennis Zeitz) writes:
- >I remember seeing a ad in a magazine for a Game maker for the IBM I
- >forget what it was called but it was for making your own arcade games
- >without doing the programming, that was 5 or 6 months ago so it should
- >be out by now. Anyone know anything about it?
- >
- > Is there any way to read messages in threds? so you read one message
- >about a subject and then jump right to the reply and so on...? it's a
- >pain to write down all the numbers of the messages you are interested in,
- >and I don't have time online to read them all..
- >
- >
- >--
- >Dennis Zeitz drz@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
-
-
- yes I bought it, and I would advise everyone in the reading audance to NOT
- do my mistake. Its quite lame.
-
- It has some neat features and if you just want to play with it as a "toy game"
- I don't think there is much harm in that. You can make a descent Zelda clone.
-
- but your very limited in what "villian" characters can do. (ie. only you
- can shoot and the AI is horrible)
-
- So if you get it for $50 bucks as a "game" in itself, fine. If your buying it
- to make games to destribute and at the company price od $129, don't waste
- your money. Buy Quick Basic (or better yet, power basic from Spectra) and
- a book on programing in Quick (or power) basic. You'll make better games
- and learn more too. (plus it'll probably be cheaper!)
-
- Rob Merritt
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