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Game Maker Magazine - Issue 01
Game Maker Magazine - Issue 01
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Previews:
-Bloopie
Interviews:
-Benoit Rouleau
Game Maker 8:
Beneton Movie GIF 1.1.2
Reviews:
-Crime Life 2
Tutorials:
Welcome to the first issue of the Game Maker Magazine.
I am very proud to present to you this issue; it is packed
with information for Gamemaker and more.
I hope by next issue we will have more people working on
this magazine. I am actually happy that I have some spare
time now, so I have more time to make more than just
software, games and just other random things stuff.
Hopefully in time the magazine will have a better lay out,
a better skin and more information in it.
So if you want to help in anyway just E-mail me or PM
me on the forum, the GMC or just your everyday E-mail
account.
Anyway I hope you enjoy reading this magazine as much
as we have enjoyed making it.
-GameMaker Registerd
Articles:
-More online games
-3D games
-Empire Earth 3
Closing:
-What is coming next issue?
-Closing Statements
http://www.gamemakermagazine.uni.cc
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Make
Easy
Overmars
Mark
Words:
Develop
Maker
Magazine
(Answers on page 7)
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Game Maker 8:
Well announced a little while ago that Gamemaker will
be porting to Mac.
Now there is some good coming out of its and maybe
some bad, there is some versos point and here they are:
The Mac Port will bring more users to GM.
There will be a complete rewrite of Gamemaker
in C++, which includes all of the external
programs needed to run it (ex. DirectX).
You may be able to make games for both Mac
and PC.
There maybe some features that are only on the
PC and some features only on the Mac.
Mac users will not be able to play/use any of the
Games or programs using DLLs or some format
types of external files.
Now that is only some points, but remember that
Mark Overmars and Sandy Duncan had said that
Dont expect much from GM8, It is manly Just A
rewrite, so there might be some new features if
YoYoGames have time really.
And there has been a lot of talk on the GMC
community section about GM8 and console support,
well No one from YoYoGames has said that there
will be console support in GM8 but that they might
aim for something like that in the near future not to
say that there not but they have said nothing about it
so far.
So you might get some new things with GM8 but
remember that YoYoGames has Gamemaker to deal
with, YoYoGames.com, GM registrations (as well
with Softwarp) and about a million other things, by
the way they arent the richest company either why
do you thing that yoyogames.com now has
advertisements all over it?
Written by Mattthew_H
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GMM: Hello Benoit and thank you for agreeing with this
interview.
Benoit: Hello Matt, I'm glad to be here.
GMM: Well Ill just ask you some Questions now.
Benoit: Alright, let's start.
GMM: how long have you been using Gamemaker for now?
Benoit: Actually, I've been using GM since version 1.2, back in
1999 I believe. I was 8 years old then. I had been dreaming of
making videogames since I first played one on the computer,
when I was very young.
GMM: what inspired you to make BMG?
Benoit: Uhm, I don't really know. It started as a test project; I just
wanted to see what I could do with GM to handle frames and
simple animation. And it turned out I added a lot of features to it
(adding and inserting frames, frame properties, etc.), so I gave it a
name... That's why Beneton Movie GIF sounds so random (I
haven't changed the name since the start). When I noticed it was
good enough to be a real software, I was very motivated to make
it even better because there is a lot of GIF software already, but
very few is free. Most of them (Ulead GIF Animator, GIF Movie
Gear) cost approximately $30 or more and they don't do that
much. For many aspects they're way better than BMG, but for
some others, I believe BMG is pretty useful... and it will always
remain free. =)
GMM: What would you say to all those users that say that BMG
is not made in Gamemaker?
Benoit: I won't start to argue. XD
GMM: Are you working on any more programs than BMG or
anything at that?
Interviewed by Mattthew_H
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Stars for:
Graphics:
Why: Well the Graphics are very well done, but not all by Sakis
but that is not the point, the graphics where very well done.
Story:
Why: there is no story apart from the starting movie which tells
that you have just moved to the place of game play.
Game play:
Why: it is very good game play (controls) easy to learn.
Sounds:
Why: a lot of the sounds where good but some where annoying
such as the car/motorbike screech and the gun sounds.
Overall:
Why: Why did I give this a 3 star rating? Well the graphics and
gameplay where high but the sounds and story where low.
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HomePage
Empire Earth 3:
Empire Earth 3 or EE3 is the latest empire Earth game
in the series made by Sierra entertainment & Mad Doc
Software.
It has come a very long way from the first Empire
Earth and looks very different too, for example the
Make your own map, it has changed more than 90% of
the interface & the new style of game play with
territories and new types of Civilizations, there is 3 to
be exacted and all with there own special unites,
unique way of life and just the way they act. The three
different types of civilizations are: western region,
Middle Eastern region and the far eastern region.
Now there is a lot of information on each civilization
but there is an entire book about those civilizations, so
I might just keep it simple, the western are very good
with weapons and large expensive weapons, the
middle east are very technologically advanced and the
far east are cheap people who build poor quality
weapons but are massive in numbers, so that gives you
a sense of what they are like.
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Audacity:
Audacity is a Great Sound Creation tool, its Easy to use
interface makes Sound creation and editing with ease. Id recommend
this to any Gamemaker user. You can make sounds out of nothing
and edit them with the editing tools that have come with this great
program.
Beneton Movie GIF:
Beneton Movie GIF or BMG is not just good with Gamemaker it was made
with Gamemaker!
BMG is for Gif Animating with over 47 Different Compatible image
formates it is the ultimate Free GIF animator.
Anim8or:
Anim8or is a wonderful program for any Gamemaker user, you can create
3D objects with ease and Animate them easier.
Here is a quick tutorial I have to show you on how to tell if your user actually has
registered version of Gamemaker, well here it is:
//OK, this script shows you if the user has registered version of Gamemaker.
{
if (gamemaker_registered)
{
show_message('you have Registered version of Gamemaker' +
' Mattthew_h :).');
}
}
//OK, this script shows you if the user has not got registered version of
Gamemaker.
{
if (NOT gamemaker_registered)
{
show_message('you have not got Registered version of Gamemaker' +
' Mattthew_h :).');
}
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By Mattthew_H
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Advertising:
If youd like to advertise in this
magazine PM me, my GMC (Game
maker Community)
Account details are:
User: Mattthew_h
Number: 85992
Quick URL: Click here
Add in:
If you have a article, a game /program review,
a game/program preview or anything to do
with Gamemaker or something to do with
games or programs, please send it to me at my
GMC account
Click on the click here to go to my account
W H
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Well so far we havent planed much but this is what we have planed so far:
Interview with Logan Smith (EDGE)
Preview of LiquidLight
Review of Magi
The Making Of Bloopie so far
What makes a Committal Game
Closing Statements:
Well that is all for this issue, I hope you liked it and you will soon read issue 2, Just remember that making
a magazine takes time, so the next issue may take some time because with one person working on it, its
challenging.
Hopefully next issue we will have more interviews, more previews, more Reviews & more everything!
Well if you want to see the Site for the magazine click here, it will have every bit of info you may need to
know but if it doesnt just ask me. Or you could Just Visit the Forum on the Game maker community.
President of Instant Arts
-Mattthew_H
While were making issue 2 why dont you visit the magazines website at
http://www.gamemakermagazine.uni.cc
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