{"id":3055,"date":"2010-09-15T10:32:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T14:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2021-11-17T23:53:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T04:53:21","slug":"the-game-maker-archive-%e2%80%94-part-15c-the-easiest-lifting-act-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/2010\/09\/the-game-maker-archive-%e2%80%94-part-15c-the-easiest-lifting-act-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Game-Maker Archive\u2014Part 15c: The Easiest Lifting, Act III"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><p>Bergervoet is a Dutch fellow who goes under the developer name Multigames. In 1998, probably about two or three years after RSD pulled support for Game-Maker, he found the software and threw together a few games. For his inspiration\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s not that he just lifted sample material and called it his own; he drew all his own sprites and tiles, and I think recorded most of his own sound effects. And unlike Felix Leung it\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s not that he directly quoted popular references and based a game around them. Strictly speaking, everything in his games is original. It\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s more that his games are strongly inspired by other, existing games.<\/p>\n<p>There\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s nothing unusual about that, of course. Without <em>Mario Bros.<\/em> we wouldn\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;t have <em>Bubble Bobble<\/em>. Without <em>Bust-A-Move<\/em>\/<em>Puzzle Bobble<\/em>, we might not have a casual game industry. 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