I think so, the editor looks right to me.
Never thought its name was that literal.
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I made so many garbage games in Klik n Play, it was a lot of fun. I was inevitably disappointed in the outcome though, whether or not i finished them. Pretty standard for me tbh, Iām only just now getting over this.
I canāt really remember any of them except one that was a ādiagonal shooterā because the enemies came from the top right corner and then you shot them from the bottom left corner. Thatās called āinnovationā.
OH I do remember one where youāre a dragon and you have to catch people falling from the sky? and eat them, of course. If you missed one, they would explode into blood, an animation I worked on more than any other single part of the game. Honestly I think it was a pretty good animation.
I also remember trying to make screensavers using Game Maker, a capability it did have. I suppose this presages my interest in things like elevator music and other Functional/Ambient Entertainment. I donāt think I ever got the feature to work though.
Anything that had a level maker I was immediately interested in, with my earliest memorably experience being Excitebike. My last kidhood venture into level editing was probably Timesplitters 2?
anyway i still like level editors and making shit but i rarely make actual games now. itās too much work!!
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Iām a dramatically uncreative person
I did start to write out a design doc for an fps when I was about 12 but it was just rebranded doom stuff
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I got in trouble in 5th grade after-school because I was drawing backgrounds to an Indiana Jones adventure game where he infiltrates a nazi base.
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Before I had a computer I used to hang out at the bookstore for hours, page through those make your own doom clone books, and dream about what Iād make.
If I had started that early maybe I could have made a quasi popular indie shooter in 2019.
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oh god. i definitely fucked around a LOT in map makers, mostly warcraft 3 and heroes of might and magic 3 and freedom force vs the third reich ā¦ im certain i spent significantly more time making maps and scenarios than i did playing any of them
i had a very convoluted tactics rpg that i played by myself irl using a chessboard that iād partially fold up to create elevation, and then units would be represented by aliens doing sports that came from the 25 cent gacha and small digimon figs
about a million rpg maker games that never made it very far before i dropped them to start another one. really a miracle that we never figured out the whole adhd thing. the most impressive of all of these is when i mostly implemented blue magic through nothing but common events. i remember that being a pain in the ass
i have sketchbooks lying around somewhere still probably where i was essentially trying to design a strategy game with all of the stupid bombast and turn-based nature of an NIS game. i think i maybe even tried this more than once. the ungodly fusion between heroes of might and magic 3, disgaea, and a deviantart account
gba fire emblem rom hacks, i remember specifically one where the lord was a brigand because theyre the best fucking sprite and because stealing is cool
there are probably more things that i cant remember
i did not leave my house often lmao
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i made a maze game called ātankzā in gamemaker where you were a tank and had to collect all the coins in a single-screen level. there were like 50 levels or something, and your tank could shoot other enemies but the enemies would respawn. from what i can remember there were enemies that shot back, invisible enemies, stationary turrets, those spike traps that move from zelda 1, and enemies that blew up like bomberman bombs.
the final boss was a shmup for some reason. it also had a 2 player battle mode.
i spent an incredible amount of time making it in jr. high. i think i backed it up on a CD but itās lost in my parentsā house somewhere (if it hasnāt already succumbed to disc rot). really wish i had backed it up better or even just saved some screenshots? kills me that i lost it.
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you made a kirby game
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