Links

Here I mean to form a repository of general links about, regarding, and associated with Game-Maker.

Information

• Personal Computer Museum: A very brief overview
• The Game-Maker Archive (DIYGamer)

Personal sites

• 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 discusses his analysis of Game-Maker's file formats.
• cly5m's unfinished Game-Maker games -- Clysm, of course, being the Seiklus guy.

Tools

• .BBL to .PNG converter -- Perl script by Sylvain Martin
• .BBL metadata extractor -- Perl script by Sylvain Martin
• VGMaps tool -- Perl script by Sylvain Martin
• .GAM to XML converter -- POSIX C program by Sylvain Martin
• .GAM to XML converter -- Perl Script by Sylvain Martin

Utilities

• DOSBox -- for playing Game-Maker and its games on modern Windows machines
• Joy2Key -- for mapping joysticks to keystrokes
• Wired Xbox 360 controller -- for half-decent joypad control