ENIGMA Development Environment

You are overly optimistic Josh.

It is obvious you've just been brushed off.  I know that there is the saying no news good news, but in this case their lack of interest or response is indicative.  I honestly don't think they give two shits about this project or your situation.  I've dealt with people like that before, don't hold your breath on that one, you are not likely to hear from them.

Your best bet is to keep in contact and pushing.....

no actually your best bet is to pay someone $500/hour for this sort of thing.

Not even close ! I'm sure ENIGMA would have been competitively priced, with customers in mind not the bank in mind like another company

One thing for sure, it would have probably been the most affordable, most feature rich development tool around, that would surely compete against another product I have in mind

it would have paid developers, staffed, supported, continually updated, not rely on outside contributors, etc.

Unfortunately ENIGMA relies heavily on contributors, and it's not only the will, but the knowledge of C++ and JAVA, graphics and sound programming.

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new parser will also mean regression and downfall in some areas I guess, I heard him mention this once that lots will change and some might not be happy.  Perhaps if we cut the bloody umbilical cord
that is attached to YYG's knob, and develop our own product, our own set of functions directly tied to C++, it would resolve so much.  But as long as there is a price to pay for compatibility and gayness I guess you will be waiting long time for the parser, maybe he's too busy now to care or to do it - so you can ask again in 2 years

How about a crazier idea and splitting the format in two, since nobody seems to think LGM deserves incremental version numbers 

How about an xgm format (eXtended EGM)  lol!

I don't get your point darkstar. I don't know why anyone would want depth or rotation. There's no point, you want a video, play a

The video, unlike ENIGMA and other video engines, is rendered inside the room/game, and is treated like an asset.  By having depth, means you can have the video playback and allow for objects on top of it.
The advanced functions available in that engine of his would allow for some very complex interactive video games blending CG, and video.  ENIGMA's video engine for now is limited and cannot yet render on  a game surface/DX surface. Though still enough to do cut scenes, intros, etc.

Rotations is useless. If you want a super-interactive video use sprites and particles.

That's a shitty way of doing things, and would mean rendering a video to a PNG....very memory and CPU intensive and limited, whereas with external video it actually gets STREAMED and not read whole in RAM.  That's how commercial games work.  God forbid if they preloaded ALL their pre-rendered cut scenes

If the sprites make your game too many MB's then GayMaker isn't your engine. No one will use this guy's useless DLL unless he adds

I never said I will use his DLL TKG and I don't use GayMaker either, that's why I use ENIGMA, because my projects will contain EDL and C++ and none of my future ENIGMA projects will be even remotely compatible with GM, I just have had bloody enough and decided to focus on something else, at the same time I get to use C++

I have some strong suspicions that the guy who made this engine, used to be a member here....... We had a member recently talk about a video engine where he could blend game and video, remember he posted some screenshots, some scene on the beach ? I don't know maybe I'm wrong, but the feature of this guy's DLL is very similar to what lone was describing here, and it's C++ which he was working on hmmmmmm.

Still his engine in theory might sound good on paper, but AVI support only, RUBBISH.
If you are going to charge that much money for a bloody video engine at least support more than just AVI FFS !

more platform support. GMS is targeted to an audience who strictly wants to go cross-platform. No one will care to make a Windows-only game with GMS.

Exactly, because most of the good functions were removed for the sake of laziness, anyhow won't get into that again, but yeah, that's why I came to ENIGMA, I am a WINDOWS developer and if I want to develop for ANDROID, I will not be ripped off $199 + $299 for a YYC compiler, I will just wait until there is android support for ENIGMA, or I will use your services 

They can dowgrade to GM 8.1 and use a DLL and it's the same thing just 2 FPS slower (based on my realistic, personal testing). Also videos don't support transparency unless you manually hack it with more DLL's

In film, we use a technique called chromakey, basically you shoot something against a green screen and that is used as a KEY, which is replaced with video.  In computer graphics/video, you could decompress the video frame, use a key colour and exclude it, replacing it with video or whatever is in the background.  this is used in video games, if not mistaken also can be done at the hardware level.

and use no codec, for exact, uncompressed pixel color! An AVI that big will make your game explode into the double-digit GB's!

The AVI is just the container, AVI supports compressed video.  Of course one would have to be crazy to use uncompressed video frames in a game, at 1GB/minute   nowadays commercial games use compression, compression for sound, compression for everything, and not always optimal quality either

So no, i'm not CRAZY enough and have not gone insane to buy his game engine

I agree with TKG and couldn't have said it better myself, only thing I disagree with, the community is open for all members, not only those who make games.  Don't forget people showing interest and new comers.  Not everyone has time to make games but are interested to learn for the future.

Though I have seen some forum admins act like him, but he is 1) not an YYG employee 2) not a staff 3) does not own the forum.

BTW TKG, you mean he hasn't made one game or demo ? I thought he had his website and production company ?!?!? If it's the case, then it's sad.  If he's hanging around the GMC to share his wee knowledge with people, that's fine, even you don't make games.....but if the sole purpose is to pick fights and insult people, that's another story.

But he used to be in the helpful category, somehow lightning struck him one day and he changed.....oh well.

One day he might actually cross that line and might be dealt with, who knows,

I'm a fan of MYST and have the boxes gathering dust and spider webs on my shelf   I did not notice any difficult navigation in fact I was amazed, and this is one type of game I'd love to do in ENIGMA, I have the coding knowledge to get this done, but there is still missing surface video rendering, currently there is one sold on the YYG marketplace, where you can blend video and game elements together, and its source code sold for $999 LOL!