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Offline (Unknown gender) Rezolyze
Posted on: March 24, 2014, 01:30:40 pm

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I was using GameMaker for a while before I discovered ENIGMA. While surfing the web for tutorials about GameMaker, I found many digital magazines created by GameMaker users. Most of these magazines offer programming tips, tricks and tutorials related to GameMaker as well as reviews of games and articles about game development. Though most of these magazines are outdated and contain links that no longer work, much of the information is still relevant.

As ENIGMA is very similar to GameMaker, I thought these magazines might interest someone. The programming info could prove useful and the rest is good for nostalgia. The history of GameMaker is almost as interesting as the games that have been made with it. Robert B Colton mentioned in this thread that he and IsmAvatar were in issue nine of MarkUp. Why not read it for yourself?  :)





This folder contains the complete run of each of the magazines pictured above. This isn't an exhaustive collection of all GameMaker related digital magazines, but these are the ones I found the most useful or interesting. Some of these issues were very difficult to find. Please feel free to provide backup links and spread them around.

Enjoy!

EDIT: I updated the folder link to the magazines. I added the resources that originally came with certain issues of Game Maker Technology Magazine to its archive. Although it doesn't look it, the EDC is still down. It won't let me upload these magazines. I'll try again another time.
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Offline (Unknown gender) Darkstar2
Reply #1 Posted on: March 24, 2014, 03:35:16 pm
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ENIGMA currently is not 100% compatible.  It is functional enough to make games in from scratch, it supports use of C++ and GML to co-exist, it supports
ENIGMA exclusive functions and even certain functions that were obsoleted by Yoyo because they were too damn lazy.

Some of the magazines are outdated - There have been many changes since the days of GM6,7,8....
Some functions were removed, and some new ones were added.

Certain things are not yet fully compatible or work well in ENIGMA.  There are many tricks or workarounds however.  Can you make games in ENIGMA, yes! There are even cool things you can do with ENIGMA that you can't in GMS, but there are also things you can do in GMS that you can't do or do well 100% yet in ENIGMA.

I found out about ENIGMA from the GMC forums lol!

So glad I did, because currently most of the stuff I want to do is impossible in GMS.

Thanks for the links above, there is still some useful info in them as certain things have not changed.

Will take a look.

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Offline (Male) Goombert
Reply #2 Posted on: March 24, 2014, 08:27:33 pm

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Lol, that was back in the day, you can read articles written by 15 y/o me XD
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I think it was Leonardo da Vinci who once said something along the lines of "If you build the robots, they will make games." or something to that effect.

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