07-09-2015, 03:41 AM
GameMaker is a product, YoYoGames don't develop it for free, so they water mark work to encourage a purchase,
Quite frankly I've only ever seen GameMaker as an educational platform due to its limited feature set and re-distributable issues,
while this is no help to the current project, I used GameMaker as a base and branched out to learn other engines and programming languages,
worth a try for any future projects (a bit of bias but javascript is quite nice to play with, fast, simple, feature rich, portable)
On to the Game! control is unconventional but I love it, perhaps don't have it go fullscreen straight away, have it as an option in a menu instead, the way the sprites scale is a bit weird and gamemakers full screen is a bit buggy, world map is a tad vague, perhaps bigger path dots with a circle around them, I didn't see them at first I was lost on the map clicking like a madman XD
Quite frankly I've only ever seen GameMaker as an educational platform due to its limited feature set and re-distributable issues,
while this is no help to the current project, I used GameMaker as a base and branched out to learn other engines and programming languages,
worth a try for any future projects (a bit of bias but javascript is quite nice to play with, fast, simple, feature rich, portable)
On to the Game! control is unconventional but I love it, perhaps don't have it go fullscreen straight away, have it as an option in a menu instead, the way the sprites scale is a bit weird and gamemakers full screen is a bit buggy, world map is a tad vague, perhaps bigger path dots with a circle around them, I didn't see them at first I was lost on the map clicking like a madman XD