ENIGMA Development Environment

DLL Support: Any date? Seriously. I'm not going to be using this for 2d. GM's 2d capabilities are fine.

OpticalLiam was really looking forward to that, too, so I will probably give it a shot before next release. Note that they will almost definitely not work on Linux.

GM7 Support: Does it work?

LateralGM supports GMK files. The, er, three functions they added between 6 and 7 are already implemented. It functions on Vista as well.

Enigma: What is it? How the f*ck does it work? Why is Lateral GM included? Should I just stick with making console games in C++?

It parses your code into C++. It uses OpenGL as the graphics system, and WinApi for Windows windows, Xlib for Linux windows. It makes things easier by doing a good amount of recoding for you, as well as coming with a lot of premade functions that simplify things further and remove pointers from the picture. (Which I'm considering making optional) The real benefit to be seen now is that your games can't be decompiled by an automated tool.

Variables: Can I now have a boolean variable for a "global" variable that only has two values?

Sure you can, but note that a boolean still takes up four bytes even if there's just one of them, as a rule of C++.

Objects: Can I have empty objects that just compute? Can I turn off all step 'events' and collision 'events'? How does object count affect FPS?

Next release, for certain. I've got most of a new system done (I work on different things intermediately) that will let you remove everything altogether, including ID. (It will be replaced by C++'s this (which is a pointer to the current instance) Count doesn't affect FPS very much at all. Like in GM, having a hundred thousand objects won't even slow the game now, as long as they don't have events. Code runs faster by nature in ENIGMA, though, as it's compiled.

Inheritance: More than one?

Heredity isn't implemented yet. I was hoping to get it integrated in the new instance system I mentioned earlier.
Unlike my critics would have you believe, it isn't as easy as adding the word struct before the code you enter in LGM and sending it to GCC. I can't just use C++ heredity and have everything work the same way; if I did that, instance_nearest and the like wouldn't recognize child objects as a type of the object you pass it. That's the big reason I haven't just done it as a five minute task. I'll see about getting it implemented in the new system.

Permissions: Can I make object variables inaccessible by other objects?

I don't know why you would want to, so I haven't implemented it. If you can give me a good reason for it, I'll add a keyword for it. (Rather, I'll abuse C++'s private keyword and use it as a declarator like Java does)

Ownage Factor: Good enough to own GM?

We're getting there. A few people said GM died when I implemented build mode, but I think that was the excitement of something totally new talking, rather than the big picture.

Says who?

Why's there a newline before my post content?

I haven't released anything since. XD
But yeah, I did cut it by amazing proportions. It used to take 15 seconds, now it takes seven or so.

Retro--
Compile time has been cut at least in half since R3.

And nice.

Either way, I wanna stay with GCC and GDB.

Oh, and Game_Boy, what did you mean with the syntax trace? That shouldn't be needed, since you check each individual file. If you mean check the outputted code, it should never be syntactically incorrect.