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- Review of
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- The Games Creator
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- Reviewed by: John E. Hautzenroeder
- Monahans, TX 79756-7503
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- The Games Creator is a full fledged
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- game generator which even a novice
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- can use to generate arcade quality
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- games. However, games created with
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- the Games Creator are not self
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- contained - meaning they require the
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- main program (The Games Creator) in
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- order to run. Therefore, any games
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- created can not be sold, given away,
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- traded, etc...
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- Barring this shortcoming, the
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- program is excellent in creating
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- games which use multi-color animated
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- sprites, hi-res background, sound
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- effects, and background music. The
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- games can vary from a 'bouncing' type
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- game (e.g. Donkey Kong) to a shooting
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- type game (e.g. Defender).
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- The only other limitations to this
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- program are that the games are
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- restricted to a single screen (either
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- stationary or scrolling) and the
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- game's intelligence. The alien
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- sprites are limited in either a
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- pre-programmed movement or a random
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- movement. They can be programmed to
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- move based on the players movement.
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- Other than this, the Games Creator
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- is well done. The instruction manual
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- is fairly well detailed although it
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- lacks in the 'HOW-TO' on actually
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- creating a game; but, the disk comes
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- with three excellent, though simple,
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- games which illustrate the program's
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- versatility. To create a game, the
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- program must first be cleared of the
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- existing game (loaded at the same
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- time as the program). When using the
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- program, it is a good idea to erase
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- everything (sprites, backgraound,
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- hi-res characters, music) and then
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- save this blank game on disk so you
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- won't have to go through the lengthy
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- process of clearing everything every
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- time you create a new game.
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- Creating a game with the Games
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- Creator is quite easy (though time
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- consuming) as the user is presented
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- with numerous menus to select the
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- various options of game play. The
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- real chore is creating the many
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- sprites needed and the hi-res
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- characters for the background
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- scenery. No programming knowledge is
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- requires to use the Games Creator
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- (except to load the program
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- initially) - all that is needed is a
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- joystick (to select each program
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- module) and the keyboard (which you
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- have already).
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- The Games Creator is easy enough
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- for a novice to use as well as being
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- good enough for the expert programmer.
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