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A game developer and professor at UCAB, who used Game-Maker in his youth. From an interview about his career:

Desde niño me cautivaron los videojuegos porque la interacción con los mismos siempre es una sorpresa. Comencé con una PC y QBASIC, con un rudimentario sistema de texto. Más adelante de adolescente tuve en mis manos Game Maker, hecho por Recreational Software Designs (a diferencia del actual y moderno, mantenido por Yoyo Games), con el que pude hacer juegos de plataformas, de los que no conservo absolutamente nada.

Later, after learning of Game-Maker's source release:

During the 90s I had used a tool to make games called Game-Maker from Recreational Software Design[s], not related to its modern namesake from YoYo Games, which allowed to make tile-based games for DOS and VGA graphics. This thing was quite fun to use, and it fell into obscurity when the Internet came around.

Well, I just found out that in July this year the lead developer released the source code and executables of this fine piece of software

A part of my childhood just said hi heart emoticon"

Have you checked it out yet?

Links

• Team Hardware Venezuela interview

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