So whats up with this GM8

Posted by Kenon on Jan. 6, 2010, 8:30 p.m.

And why should I get it?

I've been working more with level design, and if you know what I mean by work, I mean not work.

I got accepted into UT Austin's School of Natural Sciences, I may be accepted to Rice Univ's, I'm waiting on that.

I hope I do, but you know, so many of my friends are going to UT. I really think I should go there.

Anyways, why should I get GM8?

STILLTF2 OBSESSED

Comments

NeutralReiddHotel 14 years, 10 months ago

You can always make new friends in college. Change is good once in a while

Castypher 14 years, 10 months ago

Yum, Rice. Also, nothing's good about GM8. It has a new sprite editor. Wheeee, not impressive. Don't waste your money.

Good luck in university. Great stuff thar.

Iluvfuz 14 years, 10 months ago

GM8 has a new code editor too! It numbers and highlights the lines!

TEE EFF TOO FTW Good job with your acceptance into college.

Scott_AW 14 years, 10 months ago

To pay for Sandy's trips to the Opera, duh.

Josea 14 years, 10 months ago

Uni is, like, awesome.

omgaghost 14 years, 10 months ago

Gm8 looks nicer. The D&D is easier to use. The collisions are now extremely precise and the automatic collision masking on sprites is REALLY hard to work with. That's all that I've seen that's new on GM8.

Kenon 14 years, 10 months ago

@Dabridge: BY friends I meant Rawrspoon, a classmate, and a former classmate who I rarely see who would probably beg me to go to UT :P.

I'm gonna love college either way.

Castypher 14 years, 10 months ago

First time I saw UT, I thought Utah. Second time I thought Unreal Tournament.

The latter would suit you best.

F1ak3r 14 years, 10 months ago

- Sprite editor

- Code editor

- Spiffy new logo, courtesy of one of our own

- Trigger events (you can define your own events without mucking around with step and user defined stuff)

- Games load much faster

- Non-square sprite bounding boxes, with a seperate one allowed for every subimage.

- And that's kinda it

8 is a bigger improvement on 7 than 7 was on 6, but 8's not free to those who already bough 5, 6, or 7. So yeah. I got it as a Christmas present.

MMOnologueguy 14 years, 10 months ago

Wasn't GM's runner rewritten in C++ for GM8? Even if it wasn't, FPS and loading times are noticeably better for me.