News on GameMaker v4.0

[GMG Kurt]

its okay zoo it might just be a bad day for you  

[Raphael]

Just a question I thought of, any chance GM 4 will be able to compile for Windows too?  Or is that too far ahead.

[Zoo]

Probably never.

[Al Staffieri]

Just a question I thought of, any chance GM 4 will be able to compile for Windows too?  Or is that too far ahead.

GameMaker 4.0 will not run on Windows. It will be easier to port to Windows than 3.x is and I do plan to start working on porting compiled games to run on Windows, so you might eventually be able to create a game for both Mac and Windows, but GameMaker itself would still need a Mac.

[GMG Kurt]

awesome. to me the only advantage SC has over GM is that its applications work for mac and pc. I'd love to make games again with Gm, especially if they'll work on pc too.

[Zoo]

Yeah. I try to do other programs but I can't find one as easy as GM.

[GMG Kurt]

C is pretty easy, and already knowing GM gave me a huge step-up on the language, but there are a lot of other things it can do.

[Zoo]

My main problem is how vast and confusing the internet is. Just googling "Free Mac game making software" will have thousands of hits and almost none will be what you want. Game maker wasn't even what I wanted, but after a while I learned how to use it and everything was all right.

[Gan]

I know the feeling. When I was younger I would spend hours and hours going through the web, looking, searching, trying, quickly closing a window cause it was definitely what I didn't want to see....
That's how I found Al's GameMaker, XtremeWorlds mmo maker, tutorials on Java and even good how to learn Obj-C guides.

[GMG Kurt]

same here I searched "How to become a Game Maker" and This forum was on like page 7 or something :-/
And actually finding the software was a handful too. Weird, that was last December, seems like longer.

[Charlo]

Al!!!  Are you still alive? 

[Al Staffieri]

I'm still around. I just don't do much programming these days. I still hope to get a new version out eventually.

[Zoo]

Still won't work on lion though, right? If not, I'd say don't bother... We'll all have to update eventually.

[Moe]

For Googleing things you can always put quotation marks around it so it doesn't search stuff with lets say only 'Free Mac game making software' it would bring up results that had 'game making' and 'game software' in it farther in. if you put "Free mace game making software" with the quotes, it'll bring up only results that have all of those words.

[Zoo]

I question the relevance of this.