Links
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Contents
Information
- Game-Maker (Wikipedia)
- RSD Game-Maker (Facebook)
- RSD Game-Maker (Google Plus)
- RSDGameMaker (reddit)
- The Making and Unmaking of a Game-Maker Maker (Gamasutra)
- Bonus Time with Andy Stone (Gamasutra)
- The Game-Maker Story: Infoboxes (Gamasutra)
- Personal Computer Museum: A very brief overview
- Game Creation Tools Classification
- The Game-Maker Archive (DIYGamer)
- Game-Maker articles (gloaming.aderack.com)
- Game Making Tools Wiki
Resources
- RSD Game-Maker (YouTube)
- RSD Game-Maker (Twitter)
- RSD Game-Maker People (Twitter list)
- RSD Game-Maker grouping (MobyGames)
- Software Library: MS-DOS Games / Filter: Game-Maker games (archive.org)
- Game-Maker Archive Featured Games (archive.org)
Personal sites
- RSD GameMaker (eoasm) - RSD CEO and Lead Programmer Andy Stone reminisces about Game-Maker
- Mazeguy's Invasion of the Blobs! pages -- Mike Perrucci muses about his Game-Maker days.
- Sylvain Martin's recollections
- Bilou Homebrew's Blog -- Sylvain Martin conducts a forensic analysis of Game-Maker's file formats.
- cly5m's unfinished Game-Maker games -- Clysm, of course, being the Seiklus guy.
- The History of T3 Software -- Including some information about RSD Game-Maker development.
Fun
- Game-Maker Source Release Jam / KotM #85 (Glorious Trainwrecks)
- 2048: RSD Game-Maker Edition (UsVsThem)
- What's the Best RSD Game-Maker Game? FIGHT! (UsVsThem)
Tools
Image utilities
- Autodesk Animator binary
- Dave's Targa Animator -- For working with .FLI files.
- MLC Deluxe Paint Animation Decoder -- For playing .ANM files (Barracuda) in Media Player.
- .BBL to .PNG converter -- Perl script by Sylvain Martin. Optimized for Linux.
- VGMaps tool -- Perl script by Sylvain Martin, used to render level maps on this wiki. Optimized for Linux.
- .BBL metadata extractor -- Perl script by Sylvain Martin. Optimized for Linux.
- .GAM to XML converter -- POSIX C program by Sylvain Martin.
- .GAM to XML converter -- Perl Script by Sylvain Martin. Optimized for Linux.
Music utilities
- AdLib Visual Composer - For composing .ROL files and building sound banks.
- Open MPT - Modplug tracker (for converting tracker files to MIDI).
- Various other converters - MIDI to .ROL, and so on. Expect to do lots of cleanup.
- ROL2CMF - For converting .ROL files and sound banks into .CMF files.
- CMFStuff - Utilities For Working With CMF Music Files
- AdPlug -- WinAmp plugin for .CMF files
Playback utilities
- DOSBox -- for playing Game-Maker and its games on modern Windows machines.
- D-Fend Reloaded -- Good Windows frontend for DOSBox.
- DBGL: DOSBox Game Launcher -- D-Fend inspired frontend for various platforms (Windows, OS X, Linux).
- Boxer Decent DOSBox frontend for Mac OS X.
- Joy2Key -- for mapping joysticks to keystrokes.
- Keyboard Remapper -- Flexible key mapping software for Windows
- KeyRemap4MacBook -- Flexible key mapping software for Mac OS
References
- Mike Wiering's Clean Game Library (see section 3.3)
Other
- Wired Xbox 360 controller -- for half-decent joypad control.