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• 19:06, 6 June 2010 diff hist +7,946‎ N Game-Maker ‎ Created page with 'Recreational Software Designs’ Game-Maker was a boxed design suite from the early 1990s. It offered aspiring pre-Web designers the world over their first taste of game developm…'
• 19:02, 6 June 2010 diff hist +913‎ N Firefall ‎ Created page with 'It’s not that Firefall is all that great, really. It’s more that this is the closest example I have to the kind of game that Game-Maker was designed to produce. In this case …'
• 19:01, 6 June 2010 diff hist +1,473‎ N Orb: The Derelict Planet ‎ Created page with 'This is, basically, Metroid. An amateur Metroid, I grant you. And with a protagonist that rather baffles me; it’s basically an eye inside a glass orb. Still, hey. I guess the m…'
• 19:00, 6 June 2010 diff hist +2,940‎ N The Descent ‎ Created page with 'As we discussed earlier, Game-Maker consisted of two basic elements: the actual executable file that functioned as the actual “game”, which called upon all of the user-specif…'
• 18:58, 6 June 2010 diff hist +1,767‎ N Mortal Harvey ‎ Created page with 'A well-designed platformer, inspired in theme by both “Weird Al” Yankovic and Mortal Kombat. The protagonist has personality, and he moves both quickly and precisely. When he…'
• 18:58, 6 June 2010 diff hist +1,715‎ N Ego Force ‎ Created page with 'I’m just going to jump in here. Although this game has just two levels, and in many senses seems more like a tech demo, it’s one of the more advanced games to come out of the…'
• 18:55, 6 June 2010 diff hist +689‎ N All Quiet ‎ Created page with 'Assigned a book report on Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Matt Bell asked, and was granted, special permission to instead adapt the book into a videogame. As it happ…'
• 18:55, 6 June 2010 diff hist +1,259‎ N Yuphex ‎ Created page with 'The title refers to the second planet of the Yuphlaxian star system, one of the worst possible targets for a holiday. The player controls a squat, through spry, reptile who finds…'
• 18:54, 6 June 2010 diff hist +777‎ N Paper Airplane ‎ Created page with 'Guide an airplane through perilous obstacle courses, in various industrial settings — warehouses, power stations, ventilation shafts. Initially takes only a touch to wreck your…'
• 18:53, 6 June 2010 diff hist +1,670‎ N Penguin Pete ‎ Created page with 'This game is wholly credited to Joan Stone, of unknown relation to Gregory and Oliver, Jr. Their mother? Sister? A spouse, maybe? She was also responsible for many of the monster…'
• 18:52, 6 June 2010 diff hist +1,458‎ N Sample ‎ Created page with 'The game is well-named. It is basically a final lesson in combining all of the elements you’ve learned in the tutorials into a functional game. And indeed, it’s a simple game…'
• 18:52, 6 June 2010 diff hist +1,769‎ N Nebula ‎ Created page with 'Of the sample games, Nebula is both the best and the most consistently upgraded of the bunch. Whenever a new version of Game-Maker appeared, with new features, it was Nebula that…'
• 18:51, 6 June 2010 diff hist +1,583‎ N Pipemare ‎ Created page with 'The Game-Maker box is scattered with genuinely intriguing snapshots of potential games; between ordering the software and receiving it and figuring out how to use it, I used to g…'
• 18:50, 6 June 2010 diff hist +2,811‎ N Invasion of the Blobs II: The Evolution Revolution ‎ Created page with 'The sequel is a completely different game. Instead of a top-down action adventure, it’s a platformer (mostly). The player character is different; the game is set ten years late…'
• 18:49, 6 June 2010 diff hist +1,575‎ N Invasion of the Blobs! ‎ Created page with 'The first IotB is an overhead three-quarters view action adventure game; exactly the kind of thing that Game-Maker was designed for. And indeed, at a distance it feels like an ad…'