News on GameMaker v4.0

[GMG Mike]

his age on GMG says he's 43. I would guess he's a teacher.

No. He started going to online college not too long ago. He's studying Business Management. Pretty cool.

[x]

So Al, any progress to report?

[Zoo]

will there be a limit of cards in GM 4?

[GMG Mike]

will there be a limit of cards in GM 4?

I would guess, that the limit might be something like 65535, so basically no practical limit.

[Tireas Dragon]

does the number of cards variable have to be a short (4byte) an int (8byte) would make it practically unlimited (around 2 billion) although I am unsure of how basic works so I am not sure that would be easy to program. If it has Object Oriented capabilities I think you could make the cards practically unlimited.

[Al Staffieri]

I can't see anyone ever needing more than 65000 cards or even close to that amount.

[Gan]

Would it be possible to make a fast paced flip movie in Gm?

[EqwanoX]

someone always finds an excuse, "i can only have 1000 sprites on screen?! well i cant make my game then."

[Gan]

*Cough* uhm, I have no idea who that could be...

[Connors]

LoL, even if you could make a flip-book it's really hard to fill that many frames.

[EqwanoX]

i want to port the entire lord of the rings trilogy into a gm file

[Silverwind]

i want to port the entire lord of the rings trilogy into a gm file

Cool! Do it as a group project, then it simply can't fail.

[Zoo]

Lets add The Hobbit too.

[x]

i want to port the entire lord of the rings trilogy into a gm file

You could totally get automator or apple script to do it for you, then wait for about 50 hours.

[Zoo]

First you would need to download the text from the book. I don't know of anywhere you could do that though.