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[[Recreational Software Designs]]’ [[Game-Maker]] was a boxed design suite from the early 1990s. It offered aspiring pre-Web designers the world over their first taste of game development. And for its era, it was darned powerful: [[VGA]] graphics, [[Sound Blaster]] sound, infinitely huge games. There were some strict limitations and quirks, but at the time there wasn’t much else like it — and it sure beat breaking out ''Lode Runner'' for the hundredth time, plus the graph paper and pencil to record your levels.
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Long before Mark Overmars’ popular design tool, [[Recreational Software Designs]]' Game-Maker (note the hyphen) opened the horizons of Shareware-era PC gamers, forged friendships and dial-up communities, and cluttered the upload directories of bulletin boards as far flung as Russia and South America. There were several dedicated [[BBSes]], including the official RSD board in Kennebunkport, Maine. For those outside of calling range, there was always the USPS and 3-1/2″ floppies. And then development ceased, and slowly Game-Maker faded.
  
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The program consisted of two basic elements: the actual executable file that functioned as the actual “game”, which called upon all of the user-specified graphical and sound and design elements to give itself a face; and the Game-Maker package itself, which consisted of a bunch of design utilities tied together with a text mode wrapper. The package also came with a wealth of demo material, most of it by the lead programmer and his brother; some of it public domain material, gathered from who-knows-where.
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Latest revision as of 16:31, 16 September 2010

Long before Mark Overmars’ popular design tool, Recreational Software Designs' Game-Maker (note the hyphen) opened the horizons of Shareware-era PC gamers, forged friendships and dial-up communities, and cluttered the upload directories of bulletin boards as far flung as Russia and South America. There were several dedicated BBSes, including the official RSD board in Kennebunkport, Maine. For those outside of calling range, there was always the USPS and 3-1/2″ floppies. And then development ceased, and slowly Game-Maker faded.

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Pages in category "Information"

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