THE GAME

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So I'll be honest: I need a project. I have some six months before I go to art school and nothing I have to do between now and then. I'll go completely batty if I don't do something, so I'll end up finding SOMETHING, but I figured: let's see if the good kids over at the Echo need something to do too?

Basically I want to make a game. I was thinking of using GameMaker because I know how to use it, but suggestions are encouraged.

I want us to be serious in our devotion, but we don't necessarily have to be serious in our ideas. Hell I'll love any game that really grabs me, even if it's a little bear walking around looking for honey and avoiding bees.

So let's start this at the beginning: If you were going to make a game, what would it be? How would it work? What characters? Story? For now, forget that we're limited to our collective range of talents. This is the ideas stage.

[Spectre]

Awesome. What's Gamemaker? Like a website, or what?

I will think over some story ideas, but I got nothing right now.

[Jade]

If I were to make a game it would be pretty simple, nothing involving a lot of button combinations. I kind of like the idea of a bear running around collecting honey. I'd probably have the screen moving along with him and he has to jump and collect jars of honey while avoiding obstacles like bees, trees, branches, rolls of Charmin Ultra toilet paper.

[Raphael]

I always liked small pixelated graphics. Maybe some cheesy 60's game about a cop.

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GameMaker wiki
The pros: Really simple to use but capable of complex things.
The cons: Doesn't work on Macs. Doesn't even make games for Macs. (Turns out later versions do, but mine doesn't)

Toni, have you ever played William and Sly, especially the second one? I think you'd really like them. It's basically you're this little fox and you jump around a forest, but it's so much more than that. Turn the sound up.

Raphael: A website called PixelJoint which is all about pixel art

[Raphael]

I would play a game with a bear getting honey. But you should def. have it be a panda vs a bee queen.......................

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YES PANDAS YES
I could make a downright SINISTER bee queen.

[Endovia]

These games sound amusing.

In 5th grade we made little board games. I think I did a jungle theme adventure, but it was more fun to make it than to play. I got bored of playing it.

If you need something to do, you could do artsy stuff. You know, write, paint, make a movie.
You could read a book(s), dabble in programming, make a computer from scratch, run, chase birds, enter contests, get LNRS, sleep, read some more, repeat.