Favorite version of GameMaker?

[Q-Nova]

Game Maker 8, however, introduced some rather dumb problems. Regardless, I used it a lot back then.

As someone who started with Game Maker 8, what are those problems you're talking about? Just wondering.

This old early 2000s weasel is gonna pick Game Maker 5 purely because that was the only GM experience that I seriously sat down and tried to have a very very long time ago. It was not terribly fun but the example projects still hold quite a bit of nostalgic fondness in my cold, cynical heart.

Those who know me know I'm not really a Game Maker guy by any stretch of imagination. Now that the latest Studio is free though, who knows? Well, I actually had a 1.4 license for years now, I could have easily done something with that. I just didn't want to. But yeah, Game Maker's super old isn't it? That's wild to think about. Long live the development of amateur games - they make the world interesting.

Haha, I should've figured that you would be the one who voted for Game Maker 5! I've recently downloaded a few older versions of Game Maker, including 5, to see what they are like. It's fun to check out the example projects! The Pac-Man example in particular lasted for a long time; it was in Game Maker 1.1, and seems to be included in each of the following versions up to 8.1, although starting with 7 it got reskinned into a treasure explorer theme (yet the help file is clearly a hasty minor edit, with Pac-Man references remaining).

And yes, Game Maker is pretty old, over 20 years old in fact! It has really changed over the years; to think that it started as something for beginners and now it's being used by indie developers to make commercial games! Clickteam is still running strong too (even if it got surpassed by Game Maker in popularity)!

By the way, I sent you a PM long ago. I thought I'd let you know, since it doesn't seem like you read it yet. I don't get notifications when I receive PMs here, so I'm not sure if that applies to other users.

The only downside of the latest version of GMS2 is that you can't export 32-bit applications.

Aw really? GMS2 can't export 32-bit games? That's a bummer, as someone who can't run 64-bit games. Sounds like a deal-breaker to me, although I have access to a newer computer that might be able to run 64-bit applications.

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