Game Maker

From ENIGMA

Game Maker (often abbreviated to GM) is a Windows and now (although not great) Mac IDE originally developed by Mark Overmars in the Delphi programming language. It is currently developed and published by YoYo Games, a software company in which Overmars is involved. It allows users to quickly create games with little to no programming knowledge, making it a viable tool for introducing people to programming.

ENIGMA was forged to keep the simplicity, flexibility and standard IDE format which Game Maker provides except correct some of its major downfalls in the process. Such as:

• It isn't cross-platform.
• It has a limited, slow scripting language, which is interpreted, not compiled.
• It's not open source
• It's much more sluggish and larger than necessary. Using ENIGMA can result in much smaller and faster games.
• It's not free (gratis); the "Lite" (crippled) version is free, but the paid version is 25 USD.

External links

• YoYo Games — Official website
• [1] — Website forum
• Game Maker Community — Official forum
• YoYo Games Wiki — Official wiki