What program do I use to make games?!

[ismetteren]

I think Spelunky http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=4017.0 is pretty funny, and it is made with game maker.

[Moosader]

What's that have to do with anything?

[dandymcgee]

What's that have to do with anything?

He's saying it's a pretty cool game which was made with a program (GameMaker).

[ismetteren]

Maybe i have misunderstood this thread. First time i read through it seemed like you dident think it was possible to make great games in game maker.

I agree that it is more fun if you create a game from scratch. Also i dont think that you have many oppertunitys for optimizing you game and stuff like that in game maker.

[Moosader]

The point of the thread was that it was that programmers HATE to be asked what "program" they use, then they make their own. It's like an insult, almost.

[programmerinprogress]

It is a lot like an insult... to us it sounds like we're doing something 'the easy way', but to them, it probably sounds like 'wow that's great, how do I get in on the action without doing too much work?'

You don't really know the effort that goes into building any application unless you try it yourself, I think people are just naive (I have a friend who used to assume that programming was easy because I could do it...then I showed him some of my books )

[Falco Girgis]

Naive? I assume people are a combination of ignorant, arrogant, and stupid. Favoring the last one.

[sparda]

There was a time when I used a program called RPG-Toolkit to make small rpgs... (http://www.rpgtoolkit.com)

You can think of it as an alternative to RPG-Maker.

It was pretty neat at the time, but it was admittedly very restrictive. Interestingly, It uses a prorietary scripting language called RPG-Code which is similar in syntax to C/C++, but very slow indeed.