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[Alert Games]

just tried html5

Okay yeah, at this stage it is probably worth $50 in my opinion. The skin is dark and no way of changing. The UI is pretty bad as well. (glitches and does not look very good.)

But I like testing it right in the browser, and the project layout. Just needs a lot of improvement for the actual release.

Regular game maker is great. But you might as well develop in regular game maker, and import it and export it. Youre basically paying for the ability to export in HTML5, which I guess is the point anyway.

But im guessing that this is just a temporary program will be improved and will end up being just like regular game maker with the options to export to different platforms.

Edited by Alert Games, 23 September 2011 - 04:27 PM.

[chance]

But im guessing that this is just a temporary program will be improved and will end up being just like regular game maker with the options to export to different platforms.

Yeah. If they do that, maybe they should give it a new name. Something like "GM Studio" sounds good.

[slam drago]

@Jackson Yarr and nocturne.
When I said die I didn't mean everybody at YYGs should just drop down dead. I meant that I would be happy if everybody stopped buying GM and YoYo went bankrupt. Not die literally. But of course that won't happen. And I still use GM anyways.
And I can't tell you why I don't like YYGs, I don't really have a reason. I just don't like them.

And I wasn't insulting for the sake of insulting. I was stating why I thought Game Maker HTML5 wasn't worth it for me. It would just be paying lots of money to a company I don't like when I could be paying lots of money to a company I like better.

And Xshortguy, could you put my post back? If that is possible. Other wise I will rewrite and make sure not to mention the word 'die'.

I don't like YYG at all and I want there company to die. Well, I do want more GameMaker.

Do you realise how irrational you sound?

You don't like YYGs, but you don't know why.

You want more GameMaker, but you want those that can bring you GameMaker to not exist anymore?

If you got your wish and YYGs collapsed tomorrow, the likely outcome would be no more GM:HTML5 updates, it would die in Beta. No Studio. No GM9. No GM8.1 updates. Nothing. If your existing Standard\Pro executables reverted to lite, then no re-registering them.

Not really well thought out.

No it isn't well thought out. I don't think things out allot. It is just how I do things.
But I thought it out a bit more. And if YYG collapses tomorrow. Who cares? It is just another RAD tool gone. There are plenty of alternatives that are more powerful and more professional. I don't care if YYG goes under.
GM8.1 is nice, but I can live without it.

[Rusty]

There are plenty of alternatives that are more powerful and more professional. I don't care if YYG goes under.
GM8.1 is nice, but I can live without it.

Then get lost kid, if you got somewhere better to be get the hell off our forums.

[BlaXun]

Yes. Even 200$ are worth it.
You get a great platform for simple game development...

99$ is great, 200$ is still okay...

Worth it for sure.

Edited by BlaXun, 23 September 2011 - 06:14 PM.

[Rossay]

I'm really pleased and happy with GMHTML5 so far .

I think $99 (eventually $200) is a small price to pay for such a fantastic tool. If you are serious about game making then this is a small price to get yourself on the ladder; it's the equivalent to the cost of maybe 2 or 3 console games? which is hardly breaking the bank.

I don't understand why YYGs gets quite so much hate & bashing these days. I think they are taking Game Maker in the right direction.

[makerofthegames]

I don't think it is worth $199 since Gamemaker 8.0 is worth around $50.

You're looking at this wrong. GameMaker isn't *worth* around $50, it *costs* around $50. If they made it $100 I'd still buy it, therefore it is worth it to me.

Since it costs $20 for a movie ticket and some popcorn and a coke or whatever, I think GM gives me far more entertainment than 5 movies, therefore it's worth more than $100 to me.

And I thought I was the only one who bases his expenditure on whether or not it provides as much entertainment as a movie.
...
Hey, if I made that sound stupid, then so are you.

[YellowAfterlife]

Having a quick read through topic... don't you just wish that only users that did buy the program (gm:html5 in this case) could leave a opinion about it?

This is a discussion like about Flash or Java. They never used it. They are not even going to.

[makerofthegames]

I've used Java.

[Aertcz]

I paid $79.... Well worth it in my opinion. $200 might be steep but oh well. Nothing can make a game which you want faster than Game Maker. If you want to sit down and make a game in java, then go ahead... I happen to know that language as well.

Some of us have real life jobs, not MMO creating aspirations encompassed in their own little fantasy. With that said, it's just easier to make a video game in Game Maker, especially since I do this as a hobby and hobbies sometimes cost money.

A game of paintball runs me around $70, and that's every time I play. Immagine if you had to pay $70 every time you played on Game Maker...

[Smarty]

It was just about €59 for me. I'd still do it for the €74 it costs now. For this I get a game development tool that isn't necessarily the best, the cheapest or the fastest. But that doesn't matter. What matters is that we'll have a tool we know very well, a tool of which we know what it can do and which for the first time brings us very close to monetizing our games. In fact, with a few changes to an existing game you may just be ready to go live on a popular gaming portal and earn ad revenue for yourself. Who knows, you can make GM4HTML5 earn itself back.

Look here, for example.

Getting GM4HTML5 is pretty much a no-brainer for me.

For others, it's because we already know GameMaker, I'm too damn lazy to make it myself, and for anyone with a real job $80 is lunch money.

You drink champagne at lunch?

[NAL]

The skin is dark and no way of changing.

Preferences allows you to change it back to a slight modification (and eventually, when it's updated, the complete version) of the original skin used in 8.1 and below.

[Aertcz]

Game Maker is going in the right direction. I do think that the programs should be somehow combined into one, instead of having seperate programs.

[dadio]

Yarp, it kinda will be combined... with Studio...
but as it stands GM:HTML5 is for sure worth the money.
Ya can finally hit millions of peeps with your GM games right there in their browsers with no need for any extra plugins/fuss!
This is a (very) good thing.
Also, @ first few comments, methinx it's inevitable that HMTL5's gonna be King of the castle & that Flash will fade out. Also, sure there are other solutions for creating HTML5 games, but (imo) GM:HTML5 towers above them in terms of ease of use/power/flexibility *shrugs*

Edited by dadio, 23 September 2011 - 08:42 PM.

[Dangerous_Dave]

You drink champagne at lunch?

You don't?

[Smarty]

You don't?

No, of course not. It's much more a breakfast tradition.

[slam drago]

There are plenty of alternatives that are more powerful and more professional. I don't care if YYG goes under.GM8.1 is nice, but I can live without it.

Then get lost kid, if you got somewhere better to be get the hell off our forums.

I stay here to try and show people the truth about YoYo.

I am sure you all now think I am a complete and brainless idiot. That isn't true... I think.

[interpolicer]

I do think that the programs should be somehow combined into one, instead of having seperate programs.

Hell no!

[xshortguy]

I stay here to try and show people the truth about YoYo.

I am sure you all now think I am a complete and brainless idiot. That isn't true... I think.

Advertising competing products and bashing Game Maker will get you banned unless you provide constructive criticism, instead of just annoyingly bashing the software. People are here because they want to use Game Maker, not explore other alternatives. The goal of this forum is to help the GM developers deliver a polished product that can be used as a software development tool whose specialty is for amateurs and budget developers; The developers don't want to have their time wasted by meaningless arguments that bash their company, their software, or their goal.

The choice is simple: if you like Game Maker and YoYoGames, then help support it. Otherwise get lost; we'll help you out the door.

[makerofthegames]

The internet gives me full rights as anonymous citizen to voice not only my opinion but as well as boycott assertions toward anyone at any time anywhere.

No?