RTII

I started working on Game Maker (originally called Animo because my first idea was to make a simple system for creating 2-d animations) in the summer of 1999. The first public release was version 1.1. It was released on november 15, 1999. This version did already have a built-in programming language but was lacking sophistication. It did not use DirectX and it did not have a separate runner nor could it create executables. So games were simply played in the main window of the program. Since then I quickly created public versions 1.2, 1.2a, 1.3. It was not very much know or downloaded. For example in the whole of december 1999 Game Maker was downloaded a total of 366 times.

Game Maker requires a modern Pentium PC running Windows 98, NT, 2000, Me, XP, or later. It requires a screen resolution of at least 800x600 and 65000 (16-bit) colors. It requires DirectX to be installed on your computer. When designing and testing games, the memory requirements are pretty high (at least 32 MB and preferably more). When just running games, the memory requirements are a lot less severe and depend a lot on the type of game.