Me and my friends played really a LOT of Borderlands 2 last weekend. I think in three days we played it close to 20 hours.
I have also been playing Dota 2. It's a great game with terrible players. Make one little mistake and my god your whole team just wants to rip you apart. I've played it well over 40 hours and I think I've had one excellent game in which my team was supporting towards new players. All the other games someone has been raging and blaming others because we lost. Someone actually said to me that I'd have to delete the game from my hard drive (admittedly I was a terrible Anti-Mage but we still won). I seriously haven't seen the same amount of rage in any other multiplayer game.
Applications are now available on Steam, including Game Maker (the deluxe version is £300, but you get access to the base version for free). It uses steam workshop to share creations - games - with other users.
Is anyone interested in making games with this? I might - I just have to learn how to use it!
On second thoughts, don't download Game Maker unless you're willing to pay for certain features. The free version limits you to:
+5 rooms
+20 sprites
+10 sounds
+15 objects
+5 Backgrounds
+5 Timelines
+10 Scripts
+5 Fonts
+10 paths
The ability to to export for Android and iOS costs £116.99 each, HTML 5 plugin costs £53.99 and the Standard Edition (which allows you to create unlimited resources) costs £26.99 - not a bad price if all you want to do is release games on the steam workshop. The Professional Edition is needed if you plan on developing games commercially, as the HTML 5, iOS and Android plugins are only purchasable with the Professional Edition. The Professional Edition doesn't appear to add any other features beyond that, yet it costs slightly more at £53.99.
Still, I feel this could be a gateway for me into game design and coding, and I'd be willing to go for the Standard Edition at some point. But as it stands, the Free Version just isn't worth playing around with.
@edhe Yeah, the restrictions on the free version of GM Studio are simply asinine. However, I've heard that it's quite possible to import GM 8.1 projects (both from the Standard and Lite editions) into Studio, so I will be testing that out to see if there's a work-around.
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On second thoughts, don't download Game Maker unless you're willing to pay for certain features. The free version limits you to:
+5 rooms
+20 sprites
+10 sounds
+15 objects
+5 Backgrounds
+5 Timelines
+10 Scripts
+5 Fonts
+10 paths
The ability to to export for Android and iOS costs £116.99 each, HTML 5 plugin costs £53.99 and the Standard Edition (which allows you to create unlimited resources) costs £26.99 - not a bad price if all you want to do is release games on the steam workshop. The Professional Edition is needed if you plan on developing games commercially, as the HTML 5, iOS and Android plugins are only purchasable with the Professional Edition. The Professional Edition doesn't appear to add any other features beyond that, yet it costs slightly more at £53.99.
Still, I feel this could be a gateway for me into game design and coding, and I'd be willing to go for the Standard Edition at some point. But as it stands, the Free Version just isn't worth playing around with.
Hmm, I didn't know that was out. I've always loved Game Maker so Ill look into it
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Hmm, in that case, this really interests me Ill have to start getting back into Game Making
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I feel like an idiot. I finally decided to buy Half-Life and now I'm hearing about Black Mesa Source. :/ Is Black Mesa a remake of Half-Life or something entirely different?
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I feel like an idiot. I finally decided to buy Half-Life and now I'm hearing about Black Mesa Source. :/ Is Black Mesa a remake of Half-Life or something entirely different?
I feel like an idiot. I finally decided to buy Half-Life and now I'm hearing about Black Mesa Source. :/ Is Black Mesa a remake of Half-Life or something entirely different?
A remake of HL 1 using the newer Source engine.
Thanks, I'll just play through HL1 and HL2: 1 and 2 before playing Black Mesa. May as well play through it.
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