Game maker

[sneezer3]

http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/gmaker/

Anyone else seen this? The sprite editor for it at least is real good. I think its a great program for makeing stuff. What do you guys think?

[Vanguard3000]

It's good, if you don't want to do anything too advanced.  if you can possibly learn a programming language though, it would probably be best to do that.  I've tinkered with it a bit, and have half a Star Trek Raptor-esque game somewhere.  I should probably finish it up sometime.

[bryorama]

Nah..leave it in the piles of useless heaps of junk in the hard-drive.  :P

[Scy]

i have made a few games, but hard to continue....[attachment archived by Gobalopper]

[Jack Leaf]

Very good program, you can do many things with it, even some advanced, but it needs some training...

[sneezer3]

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[Inoculator9]

Yeah Van, I'd love to see it as well. Nobody makes any good ST games anymore ;)

[Vanguard3000]

Yeah, Raptor was one of my favourite games back in the day.

[Inoculator9]

Well, hope you decide to ;)

[sneezer3]

Me to, Looks like its a great start. Nice sound effects to. :)

[Inoculator9]

Agreed. Very nice. Could stand for some more enemies though, lol ;)

[Vanguard3000]

Glad you like it.  I'm home for the weekend, and I gave it another try.  I now remember why I gave up the first time.  I'm having trouble getting the program to draw a line (phasers) from the ship sprite to the mouse cursor sprite.  It's quite annoying.  And what's worse, I could never register properly with the GameMaker forum.  I'll keep trying though, I guess.

And Inoc, I have sprites made for five enemy ships (and five Federation ships, which will be your "lives"), but I've only implemented those little ones into the alpha as part of a test run.  The enemy ships you see are my D'k Tahg-Class attack drones (I named them that because they're shaped like the blade of the D'k tahg ceremonial Klingon knife).  They were orignally gong to be asteroids, until I decided to make them move faster than some of the other ships.  ;)

[Inoculator9]

Sweet :) Have you considered branching out and adding some Son'a, maybe a few Reman ships?

And perhaps a few varieties of asteroids just to spice things up ;)

[Vanguard3000]

Hell no.  The new movies were aking to a monkey's posterior.  I wouldn't add Remans even if they were interesting.  In case you didn't know, I can't stand the post-Roddenberry Treks.  Nemesis and Enterprise are exceptionally bad.

Anyway, my game takes place in the movie era anyway, so it only deals with the klingons, and to a lesser extent, Romulans.

[Digital Guerrilla]

I am not a huge Star Trek follower but post-Roddenberry Trek does indeed suk.

[Inoculator9]

Nemesis sucked, I agree, but I enjoyed First Contact and Insurrection, and Generations to a lesser extent.