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Article #1631Re: GAME.MAKER
From: Phil Goetz
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:11
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:11
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In article <1ef2ddINNe18@TIGER.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU> stone-andy@cs.yale.edu (Andy Stone) writes: > >In article <SPURCELL.92Nov18001251@galadriel.mcd.intel.com> >spurcell@galadriel.mcd.intel.com (Stacy Purcell ~) writes: > >> Have any of you ever used GAME MAKER from Recreational Software >> Designs? It is supposedly software to aid in creating arcade games >> and adventure games, sort of a video game construction kit. > Yes, I've used Game-Maker quite extensively. In fact, I've >probably used it more then anyone else, because I also wrote it! >Although in most cases my testimony would be suspect, in this case, it >really is not. Why? Because there is NOTHING ELSE to compare it to -- >there isn't any competing product to steal our sales. >... > 2: Game Maker is a completely new product type. It sounds like Broderbund's _Arcade Machine_ (Apple //, about 1983), but adapted for different types of games. Phil
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu!goetz From: goetz@acsu.buffalo.edu (Phil Goetz) Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer Subject: Re: GAME.MAKER Message-ID: <Bxz3qJ.EBM@acsu.buffalo.edu> Date: 19 Nov 92 17:11:03 GMT Article-I.D.: acsu.Bxz3qJ.EBM References: <SPURCELL.92Nov18001251@galadriel.mcd.intel.com> <1ef2ddINNe18@TIGER.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU> Sender: nntp@acsu.buffalo.edu Distribution: rec Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: pegasus.cs.buffalo.edu