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AdityaKale

Member Since 12 Jun 2012
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In Topic: Basics Of Game Maker

12 October 2012 - 04:26 AM


If anyone has used these discounts please inform me , since this is the first time I have introduced discounts but I couldn't try myself so I would like to hear the readers response


Yup, works like a charm! :thumbsup:

Have you purchased the black & white book or the colored book using these discount codes ?

In Topic: Basics Of Game Maker

05 September 2012 - 06:00 PM

It just so happens I have Amazon Prime so I skimmed over it a little.

This might be useful for beginners who learn well from reading books. Of course, personally I'm well past the beginner stage and I'm a kinesthetic learner anyway, so this probably never would have helped me. (Not to mention even $10 is a bit much when you can get a great amount of tutorials and examples on here for free.) I found a lot of the images were quite unnecessary, and almost insulting to human intelligence. (For example, 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% progress bar... Really?)

Also, I have published via Lulu, Google Books/Google Play, and Amazon KDP. Your formatting is a little inconsistent throughout. (For example, sometimes there are 2 blank lines after a title in the table of contents, other times it's just one. Or it could be the font size.) I would also suggest using page breaks. Even though eBooks don't really use page numbers, it still looks nicer if titles are at the top of the page.

One more thing: Your cover is awful. Sorry to be a downer, but really... It would be better to have a plain cover with just text than a game using the default GM resources, and not even sized to the same aspect ratio as a normal book cover. It doesn't even have to be a real game on the cover. You can just make some semi-decent graphics (or have somebody else make them who doesn't mind you taking ownership of them and selling the book without them receiving profit), and just make a mock-up game for the cover. It will make it MUCH more appealing, as that's the first thing that draws one's attention to a book.

It is OK if it wasn't of much use to you but there are people who read it , recently someone purchased 35 copies of the $65 colored version

In Topic: Basics Of Game Maker

05 September 2012 - 05:57 PM


Not bad, being 16.
I'm worried about the price though, not many GM users have the money for that. (even if it's a small amount.)

Basics Of Game Maker ( Black and White ) now available for $17 instead of $20 navigate to the link https://www.createspace.com/3908974 , Add Basics Of Game Maker to your cart , a new window would appear which would contain a text box for entering discount codes at the bottom enter the code ZJ7V5SVL for a $3 discount ,
similarly Basics Of Game Maker (Color) now available for $60 instead of $65 , navigate to the link https://www.createspace.com/3821618 , follow the same procedure mentioned above and enter the discount code 94YFFMEM for a $5 discount

If anyone has used these discounts please inform me , since this is the first time I have introduced discounts but I couldn't try myself so I would like to hear the readers response

In Topic: Basics Of Game Maker

31 August 2012 - 04:33 AM

Not bad, being 16.
I'm worried about the price though, not many GM users have the money for that. (even if it's a small amount.)

Basics Of Game Maker ( Black and White ) now available for $17 instead of $20 navigate to the link https://www.createspace.com/3908974 , Add Basics Of Game Maker to your cart , a new window would appear which would contain a text box for entering discount codes at the bottom enter the code ZJ7V5SVL for a $3 discount ,
similarly Basics Of Game Maker (Color) now available for $60 instead of $65 , navigate to the link https://www.createspace.com/3821618 , follow the same procedure mentioned above and enter the discount code 94YFFMEM for a $5 discount

In Topic: Basics Of Game Maker

06 August 2012 - 05:21 PM

It just so happens I have Amazon Prime so I skimmed over it a little.

This might be useful for beginners who learn well from reading books. Of course, personally I'm well past the beginner stage and I'm a kinesthetic learner anyway, so this probably never would have helped me. (Not to mention even $10 is a bit much when you can get a great amount of tutorials and examples on here for free.) I found a lot of the images were quite unnecessary, and almost insulting to human intelligence. (For example, 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% progress bar... Really?)

Also, I have published via Lulu, Google Books/Google Play, and Amazon KDP. Your formatting is a little inconsistent throughout. (For example, sometimes there are 2 blank lines after a title in the table of contents, other times it's just one. Or it could be the font size.) I would also suggest using page breaks. Even though eBooks don't really use page numbers, it still looks nicer if titles are at the top of the page.

One more thing: Your cover is awful. Sorry to be a downer, but really... It would be better to have a plain cover with just text than a game using the default GM resources, and not even sized to the same aspect ratio as a normal book cover. It doesn't even have to be a real game on the cover. You can just make some semi-decent graphics (or have somebody else make them who doesn't mind you taking ownership of them and selling the book without them receiving profit), and just make a mock-up game for the cover. It will make it MUCH more appealing, as that's the first thing that draws one's attention to a book.

Sir,
Thank you for your frank and sincere comments on the book. I highly appreciate them . I have noted them for my future endeavors and I guess the formatting errors are due to improper conversion while uploading on amazon.com as you have published via Amazon please let me know how to get rid off file conversion errors which may have crept in :thumbsup: