Links

Here accumulates a repository of general links about, regarding, and associated with Game-Maker.

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)

Resources

• RSD Game-Maker (YouTube)
• RSD Game-Maker (Twitter)
• RSD Game-Maker People (Twitter list)
• RSD Game-Maker grouping (MobyGames)

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
  • Autodesk Animator source code
• 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)
• Whitton muses about his history with game creation systems (The Game Creator)

Other

• Wired Xbox 360 controller -- for half-decent joypad control.