News on GameMaker v4.0

[Zoo]

Cool, any idea of a release date?
I just checked your site, have you really been working on it for 4 years? woah. I haven't even had GM that long, it must be getting close to being done.
The screenshots look promising.

[Gan]

Al's been writin' one line of a code a day for the past 4 years. It's rumored he'll be finished in 2016.

[Zoo]

lol

[Zoo]

in 2009, he was close to a demo, so it must be coming soon.  

[Al Staffieri]

in 2009, he was close to a demo, so it must be coming soon.  

I had a lot of work done last year and even made a video demo, but I got stuck trying to compile it for Intel Macs. I'm still stuck on the file handling for Intel. Once I get that worked out I can move forward. I'm also having trouble with the text editing. Old EDIT FIELD programming was so easy in FutureBASIC, but the Mac no longer fully supports it, so I have to make new style editing areas that I am having trouble with. The good news is once I get it working there won't be a size limit on scripts.

[Zoo]

Cool. You made a video? Link?

[Al Staffieri]

Cool. You made a video? Link?

http://alstaffieri.com/movies/gamemaker4previewmovie1.mov

May take a minute to load the page it's over 7Mb.

[Gan]

Ah man. It's something like this that'd make me switch from Sc to Gm. Though of course, Gm 4 would need to have advanced image drawing speed and capabilities to go with the awesome features.

[Zoo]

w00t. OMG can't wait! This is going to be awesome.
@matt:
You should tottally use GM sometime, because it rules.

[Zoo]

There are some mysterious things about GM 4 we may never know (Until it's finished, of course) Like what does that last button on the bar do?



Moderator Edit: Fixed picture link

[Connors]

Still wondering how it's going to differ so much from Silver Creator.

[Zoo]

Code. And GM costs 20 dollars so it's got to be better, right? lol.
But it is my opinion that game maker has an easier code system than SC, but that's probably because I have known GM's code longer.

[Al Staffieri]

There are some mysterious things about GM 4 we may never know (Until it's finished, of course) Like what does that last button on the bar do?

That's a status bar. The idea is you will be able to put it (or several of them) wherever you want.

[Zoo]

Woah, awesome

[Zoo]

Still wondering how it's going to differ so much from Silver Creator.

Actually, GM 3 isn't all that much different. But GM 4 is going to be totally awesome