Using easy to learn drag-and-drop actions, you can create professional looking games within very little time. You can make games with backgrounds, animated graphics, music and sound effects, and even 3D games! And when you've become more experienced, there is a built-in programming language, which gives you the full flexibility of creating games with Game Maker. What is best, is the fact that Game Maker can be used free of charge. You can do anything you want with the games you produce, you can even sell them! Also, if you register your copy of Game Maker, you can unlock extra functions, which extend the capabilities of the program. Game Maker comes preloaded with a collection of freeware images and sounds to get you started.
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One of the best easy game creation programs I have ever used. Its nice drag and drop interface is easy and understandable to use for anyone. If you learn how to master the program then you can make virtually anything. Not only does it just allow users to make to but also 3D games with the right DLL. And with a community of users to help you with anything your stuck on might just make this the best choice if your novice game designer. I give it a 5 out of 5
Amazingly easy for novices to use due to drag-and-drop, yet powerful enough to create commercially viable games with the built-in language, GML. Stupidly cheap, the only thing that lets it down is the performance of the games. It's extension system and ability to utilise dll's mean the possibilities are endless.
the inbuilt programming language may seem diificuilt at first but once you get used to it it just makes your head spin from possibilities :D LOL
the only problem is performance... at massive scenes it usually gets slow because every object ingame has many features enabled (collision checking, for example), so it is advised to use particles whenever you have to create an object without collisions...
Best game making program I've used so far.
truly.... game-maker masterpieces an amazing world to making games the easy way, if not the fun way!
easy to use drag-n-drop feature makes game-making as interesting as VisualBasic had done it for creaing applications.
a must for anyone wanting to create games but with no previous knowledge, but of-course the in-built GML (Game Maker Lang.) too is powerful enough to create good-enough games.
great game maker application
Easy and fun way to learn how to make computer games.
The best game maker out there you can get for twenty bucks! Tons of features to boot, an easy-to-learn scripting language, and extensions and dlls take the program to no limits.
An great program that i use to make games on free time.
Never seen any as good.
Great application. Make advanced games with this program.
A easy and advanced program maker for those that want to make easy and a quick game