ENIGMA Development Environment

Well, I am at a point now where I could code in the splash functions in my free time, or I could just not do that, ever, at all, and leave them deprecated for ENIGMA. But why would I want to do this? Well for several reasons, but mainly.

1) YoYoGames designs functions very badly, that leave little room for abstraction.
2) The functions are basically just a salad of various API's, meaning it's not possible to build a game that for instance only uses splash_show_image without linking DirectShow, unless I move splash_show_video over into my DirectShow extension which is just messy including the splash settings variables all over the place, especially since some of the code has to go into the main Window handle callbacks
3) I have much better functions/implementations planned that are truly abstract, for instance, my already implemented video functions, and in future releases...
surface_set_target(mysurface);
video_draw_frame(myvideo);
surface_reset_target();

Which we can also get running in OpenGL and on Linux, and *gasp* maybe even mobile! *crosses fingers*

Point is, I want to make a better, more powerful, and easy to learn and use design for video playback, HTML and webkit content, that I can not otherwise do by emulating YYG's shit. I don't even think many games used splash functions, because they were only existent in a single release of GM. Anyway, I want to hear you guys opinions on this.

Yes I am implying that Harri, I already replaced the collision event code with // do nothing and the memory leak still occurs. You have to fully delete and remove the collision event for the memory leak to stop. And the memory keeps on going up, about 1mb per second on the FPS example.

No that's actually the opposite way around. XXX does all kinds of reverse engineering on GameMaker, he wrote the decompiler, and he said that they track in HTML5 games whether they were built with a legit Studio version or not, it checks your license. And from what I am aware of the cracked versions usually remove this shit in order to make the crack even work.

That was using the standard runner, I haven't installed the Mast Collection crack yet on my new PC.

Well let's see.

show_message("hai!");
Putting that into the create event of an object and sticking it in a room builds an exe in Studio of 1.85mb, 2.68mb in ENIGMA, 1.08mb in ENIGMA if I disable the unused extensions and set Audio to "None".

repeat (500) {
  draw_circle(random(room_width), random(room_height), 10, false);
}

Adding that code to the draw event oddly yields the same results.

So ENIGMA can build really small exes, you just have to manually turn off shit you aren't using. Also, ENIGMA is doing this without compressing the final exe and its data inside a 7zip.

That's not exactly what I meant. It's the way you are arguing.

Apple has a highly restrictive Store Policy, therefore we should change our whole license around to accommodate it.

Which is really just absurd. The better way to argue it is the following.

ENIGMA has a restrictive license, let's try to find ways to give users more rights.

Is the better way to make the argument.

I'm sorry, but I do have to agree with these guys in that I don't agree with Apple's bullshit. Also, I pretty much hate everything about them. Steve Jobs was an abusive dick who abandoned his daughter, he wasn't very smart, and he wasn't a very kind person at all.