MaxCoderz

Has anyone seen this excellent book, available free online?
http://www.gamemaker.nl/feldman.html
It's helped me a lot with my pixel art and should be able to help anyone else as well.

Hey, that's cool. Thank you.

I spontaneously downloaded it...

That book is indeed helpful O_O

It's not so helpful for calc sprites, but it was extremely useful for me in moving up to comp resolutions from the puny 96x64.

The site linked me to the "GameMaker" site.
Is anyone still using this? It looks a bit old, but fun.

NanoWar wrote:The site linked me to the "GameMaker" site.
Is anyone still using this? It looks a bit old, but fun.

someone in my school uses that a lot. He also used it once to make a virus that infected all the computers in the entire school district(13 pretty good sized schools, from elementary to high school), and change all the computers to an included wallpaper picture at the same time, on the same day. The entire district computer network had to be shut down for days.

He did get suspended for a very long while.

Gamemaker costs money for the full version (the free version never expires, but it's limited in features). However, it is excellent. It's very easy to use. You can make games entirely with drag n' drop, however it has a built in programming language as well (a very, very simple object-oriented language), and you'll need to use it in conjunction with drag n' drop to have more refinement and control.

It's made by an dutch professor btw

CompWiz wrote:The entire district computer network had to be shut down for days.

Wait, they shut down an entire school network because of a changed wallpaper..? Are they sane..?

Timendus wrote:

CompWiz wrote:The entire district computer network had to be shut down for days.

Wait, they shut down an entire school network because of a changed wallpaper..? Are they sane..?

well, do you think it's ok for elementary school kids around age 5 to be looking at porn?

They probably shut it down to fix whatever hole he exploited.

CompWiz wrote:well, do you think it's ok for elementary school kids around age 5 to be looking at porn?

Ah, I had expected something along the lines of "You've been h4xx0red, ph34r me!!!!1one~!!"

Then again, as long as there's no adult around to make a fuss, the child will probably just think "what the heck is that?" and move on to do whatever he intended to do on the computer

Timendus wrote:

CompWiz wrote:well, do you think it's ok for elementary school kids around age 5 to be looking at porn?

Ah, I had expected something along the lines of "You've been h4xx0red, ph34r me!!!!1one~!!"

Then again, as long as there's no adult around to make a fuss, the child will probably just think "what the heck is that?" and move on to do whatever he intended to do on the computer

well, from what I've heard, it was two naked lesbian girls doing something. I didn't actually see it, as I make it a point not to look at that kind of stuff. Actually, he originally just intended to make it infect our school. But there was some teachers convention in the school library, and when the teachers logged on, they all caught the virus, and when they went back to their schools, the computers there were infected as well.

About halfway to activation date he tried to write an antivirus, but it didn't work. It was funny, on the day when the virus was going to activate, everyone, including some of the teachers, knew about it, but no one told the administration until after the network was shut down.

Actually, once someone managed to get remote control of the network in a way that let them put items on the desktop of all the computers in the district at once. They named them things along the lines of what you thought the desktop would say. Actually, I suggested to the kid who wrote the virus that he should make the desktop say something like that, but he disregarded the advice.

NanoWar wrote:The site linked me to the "GameMaker" site.
Is anyone still using this? It looks a bit old, but fun.

I've used it quite a bit, it's a good program. It's still being developed, and there is a large community (mostly n00bs though). There are smaller communities that have more skilled members, you just need to know where to look.