PROS AND CONS ON FLASH VS GAME MAKER?
Question by D:
Pros and Cons on Flash VS Game Maker?
I’m a programming major currently and have made a few small games in Visual Basic, and have taken a few courses in flash so i know many of the advanced features such as what action scripting is capable of…
Regardless I have been reading about a program called Game Maker, and off of the official site, there doesn’t seem to be much information about what this program is capable of…nor what the actual syntax (in the included programming language) is like…
So my question is, what do you think the pros and cons of using flash vs game maker are?
I would actually like people to answer that have experience using game maker.
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Answer by czstealth
Go with flash to produce more customizable games.
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about 2 years ago
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about 5 months ago
Game Maker is the way to go for almost any game. Flash is greate for flash movies. Game maker, (GM) can do almost any kind of game. It could mimic Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda, Tetris, almost anything.
See, instead of some game making engines where “here is where you draw the main character” and “here is where you make the battle scenes” and “here is where you bla bla bla” Game Maker gives you a sprite design menu (makes almost anything you see on the game) and an object program menu (Where you take the sprites and give them commands like move around what whatever.)
These two details expand into almost any game genere. You can do a platformer (side-scroller), a top-down rpg, puzzle game, even with the $ 20 regestered fee, you can make your own first persion shooter!! It’s crazy! If you want to see completed games with gamemaker, download some of them on the main website. or, you can download the tuturials where it talks about how to do things, thus what things are, which you may be interested in.
As for the programming language (GML) you can work with mathematical equasions such as absolute value, sin, cos, tangent, its all included. Variables also are quite helpful. It’s similar to normal coding with notepad if i’m not mistaken. I don’t know much about that but i’ve seen it. Also, with the $ 20 registration fee I mentioned earlier, you can include other programming languages. It will also accept .DLL files with registration. I don’t know what they are, but i’ve seen them in the files professional computer games like Age of Empires III.
Everything is done by you, all the programming, stuff like that, yet gamemaker is not useless if you don’t know everything, and there’s a sweet forums page on their website where people can answer almost any question you may have. The only problem is that it takes a lot of time.
I would defenately get it. Once i tried Game Maker, I was wondering where it has been all my life!