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4 stars
Version: Game Editor 1.3.9
"This is great game making software with annoying bugs"
Pros: Everybody seems to like Game Maker, but to me Game Maker was more difficult to use. I was able to make many of the games I wanted with this software. I think sometimes a tutorial can make or break software, and thankfully they have an very good one.
Cons: I really wish they would fix the bugs in this software with a patch or something. This software is not as solid as I believe it could be. I went ahead and paid $94 for the professional version, but such has problems that could show up in your game.
Summary: This is great game making software with some functionality problems and yes they could be annoying. For example, the collision affects MAY NOT always work properly, etc. Also, I personally had problems with giving cloned enemies their individualisms (if one clone died all of them died; it was hard to make separate clones, etc). Hence, problems like this are what I experienced. Thus, I wish they would address such problems in their next version, fix these problems, or make them easier to deal with or something. Having said that, I'm no programmer nor am I a math wiz, but I was still able to make a lot of the things that I wanted to make in my games with this software. I'm surprised that not too many people talk about this software. I?m not sure about Game Maker nor Game Factory (I haven?t had time to learn those yet), but this software is good. I wish I could give this software a 4/5 or 5/5 but it?s hard with the problems mentioned above. My note to the makers of this software is: FIX THE BUGS (and I believe that it could be done) so that I could say that there is no need for any other 2D game making software on this planet!
Updated on May 26, 2009I'm sorry. In my post, I said that I "wish" I could give this software a 4/5 but actually did. Oh well, it's could be that good. But still I wish that they'd fix the annoying bugs. That is my only problem with the program.
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