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Posted by DFortun81 on April 17, 2011, 2:40 a.m.

Complete waste of $25.

Don't upgrade. The arguments change is absolutely retarded. While needed, it prevents me from working with older projects due to them having anywhere between 400 and 1500 scripts. Not only this, but if you're using Windows 7 or GMAPI, you're wont even be able to run your games. On my Wndows 7 machine, Game Maker crashes at compile time.

I was hesitant at first, but now I think I'll go full C++ for all of my game development needs. Maybe even C#, but I doubt that. I'm not a Microsoft whore.

-DF81

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Scott_AW 13 years, 7 months ago

I think we need to learn briefness in posting. Or perhaps blog more about our rants so you can take the time to read and sub comment on them. This 'was' a game dev site, so why not bring back that tradition? My ADD prevents me reading all these potentially interesting comments.

Captain Morgan….

Cesque 13 years, 7 months ago

My ADDDD makes me ignore comments that don't involve elves and dragons. It stands for "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Deficit Disorder", by the way.

Scott_AW 13 years, 7 months ago

Yeah, thats because you got the handy 'hyper' part, I just get distracted.

Undeadragons 13 years, 7 months ago

@Spectre: Java used in robotics? Hell no! Most robots can't run the JVM. Java in robotics would be quite niche. Java in online banking? You could pretty much use Java, PHP, CSP, ASP, ASP.NET, Ruby, Python, Perl, hell even Brainfuck, from what I've seen most of the banks I've seen use PHP or ASP. Mobile phones usually have some programming in Java, but at the moment only smart phones have any large amount of Java and smart phones are still a minority.

Universities usually teach C and Java in computer science, one as an example of imperative programming and the other as an example of object oriented programming, Java is probably used because it is a rigidly structured language, with strict definitions to most of if not all of the language, as opposed to C/C++ which are much less structured, which leads to infuriating results sometimes.

Still it's not that it doesn't have it's place as a language, it's just not quite what you have listed, browser based games and applets would have been a good example as there are a fair few that use Java (most are flash though, but there are some big ones in Java).

F1ak3r 13 years, 7 months ago

Hey everyone!

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First, we've added the ability to turn OFF the new parameter checking system. This gives extension makers time to update them, without forcing those of you making games with them, back into Game Maker 8.0. This is a PER-GAME option, and you can find the switch in the Global Game Settings dialog. Any Game Maker 8.0 game loaded, is automatically set to having this OFF, but you can always change it back if you've upgraded your scripts. Be warned; this IS going to be mandatory in the future, so please use the extra time to upgrade your scripts.

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KaBob799 13 years, 7 months ago

Turns out they removed .fon support as a "fix" for my problem. Only YYG would list a feature being removed as a bug fix <_<

Alert Games 13 years, 7 months ago

@Cyrus: Game Maker. Your copy is never legit since 7.0

DFortun81 13 years, 7 months ago

I'm happy about removing the argument change. However, my Game Maker still fails to compile and instead throws an error about 1/3 of the way through.

Game Maker 8.1

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