Category:Ciro Durán
A game developer and professor at UCAB, who used Game-Maker in his youth. From an interview about his career:
Since childhood videogames captivated me because interaction with them is always a surprise. I started with a PC and QBASIC, with a rudimentary text system. Later as a teenager I had in my hands Game Maker made by Recreational Software Designs (unlike the current and modern, maintained by Yoyo Games), with which I could make platformers, of which I do not keep anything.
— Ciro Durán, Team Hardware Venezuela
From another interview:
Since childhood I was interested in the games. Not only to play them -- to enjoy their stories and feel "in the game" through their mechanics -- but also to know what was behind them, how they worked, what could I do. That led me to learn to program, at first primitive languages like BASIC or Logo, or with programs that helped to make games (Recreational Software Designs' Game-Maker, for MS-DOS). Then in my teens I dedicated myself to other interests, but by the time I was in college my interest in games came back to me, so I chose to 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, that I had to learn for myself. Since then I have been dedicated to making games, even though for a long time I held a very different kind of 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
— Ciro Durán
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- Team Hardware Venezuela interview
- El Techado interview (archive.org mirror)
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