A New Toy

Welcome, Welcome to my not so humble abode. There is surely but one reason you have come to see me. You have heard about my new toy. I am right? Then come, let me show you this marvelous creation of geek-kind. Behold Game Maker!

I finally got this downloaded on tuesday, didn't have a chance to play with it till today (still haven't really messed around with it). Yes, this is my fabulous new toy. It has difficult to restrain my excitement and actually get some schoolwork done. But everyone needs a break, right? So in my "downtime" I checked out a few videos about GameMaker. The one featured below talks about how to program a pacman game. I've already covered how to make sprites, and objects and whatnot, but I know that barely scratches the surface. So I thought, PacMan, simple enough. Well I was not right (the All Powerful ect.. Jack D. is never wrong, just occasionally not right). Obviously there is a lot more in even a simple game than you would expect. Yet it seems that these are still basic functions, ones I'm going to use over and over again as I work with this tool. As soon as I get a real chance to play with GameMaker you can bet I'll be right back watching this tutorial. So, if you too are looking to learn some basic aspects of GameMaker, or just in the mood to watch a random tutorial, enjoy:

Seems I still have a long way to go before I subdue the Nerds from their Parents Basements and take over the world.
Until then,

Jack D.