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By: Ralf

Ralf — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 20:42:51 +0000

I would like to try do the same thing but using Flash MX, any sugestions?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:26:55 +0000

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By: Erik C

Erik C — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 00:16:56 +0000

Personally I find Director3D’s way of thinking a little strange.

You can also use gmax (http://www4.discreet.com/gmax/)many free (legal?) exporters to other formats..
or swish as an alt to flash http://www.swishzone.com/

I wonder if anyone has seen this? Espen mentioned some time ago he was looking for an open source game engine for academic collaboration.
Anything with Alan Kay behind it has a head start, especially if it is open source: http://www.opencroquet.org/About_Croquet/about.html

game engines: Quest3D I prefer to Torque unless you are doing large landscapes or on a real budget. http://www.devmaster.net/engines/ is the best game engine review site I have seen.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:53:52 +0000

I think that for prototyping 2d game ideas, Game Maker is vastly superior to Flash/director.
3d is another issue – there are some 3d extension for game maker, and version 6 has 3d facilities, but shockwave 3d is more developed. Depends on what you want to do, really.
But the Macromedia products are really made for drawing graphics, not for creating games, and I think is shows.
There’s a free trial of Gamemaker at the site.

By: Kalev

Kalev — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:07:30 +0000

I’m curious what sorts of limitations Game Maker imposes from a failry critical view point. Assuming competence with programing would it make sense to use this to protype (2d) game ideas, or would I realy be better with sticking to a Macromedia product or an actual programming language (albeit a simple one, like maybe python), or even going so far as using the 2D parts of a 3D game engine, such as Unreal or Torque