- GameMaker
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GameMaker is a name given to two different pieces of computer
software written for two different platforms by different people. It is not to be confused with Game Maker (two words) or with Game-Maker created by Recreational Software Design in the early 1990s. Gamemaker is also the name of a game-making educational curriculum inArvika ,Sweden .Commodore 64 / Apple II
"GameMaker" is the name of
computer game creation software written byGarry Kitchen and published byActivision for theCommodore 64 and theApple II . The program includes "Sprite Maker" for designing animated sprites, "Scene Maker" for creating backgrounds using a palette of four colors and several basicMS Paint -esque functions (such as line, circle, and paint bucket), "Sound Maker" and "Music Maker", as well as the tools to construct a game. The Commodore 64 version had arguably more features, especially in the Sound Maker module, taking advantage of the sound and color capabilities it had that the Apple II lacked.To demonstrate the versatility of the program, several demonstration files were included. Among them were a demo sequence featuring animated sprites and music, a recreation of the
David Crane classicPitfall and a birthday greeting.Two add-on disks were released for the Commodore 64 version - Sports and Science Fiction. These included sprites, music and backgrounds for loading into GameMaker.
Classic Mac OS
"GameMaker" was made for the same purpose as the above program (simplified game development) for Mac OS 7.5 and up including
Mac OS X . This "GameMaker" was written by Al Staffieri Jr. The latest build is 3.9.9, and it is still under development for future versions.External links
* [http://www.mts.net/~kbagnall/commodore/gamemaker/ GameMaker for Commodore 64] homepage
* [http://members.aol.com/AlStaff/GameMakerHelp.html GameMaker for Mac OS] homepage
* [http://www.gamemakersgarage.com/ Game Maker's Garage]
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