Category:Ciro Durán
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.
— Ciro Durán
From another interview:
Since childhood I was interested in the games. Not only play them, enjoy their stories and feel "in the game" through its mechanical, but also to know what was behind them, how they did, what could I do. That led me to learn to program, at first primitive languages like BASIC or Logo, or programs that helped make games (Game-Maker Recreational Software Designs for MS-DOS). Then in my teens I dedicated myself to other interests, but when the time college interest of the game came back to me, so I study something related and Computer Engineering was the next logical step. I learned many things unrelated to video games, and at the same time, I learned that there were many things related to video games that was not going to see there, so I had to learn for myself. Since then I have been dedicated to making games, even though for a long time had a very different job. I worked nights until I could finally achieve day work as a freelancer for developing companies.
— Ciro Durán, El Techado
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?
— Ciro Durán
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- Team Hardware Venezuela interview
- El Techado interview (archive.org mirror)
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