Enigma r3 Released

Posted on Aug 09, 2008 - 03:08 PM by GMNews

The much anticipated revision three release of Enigma has just been made publicly available.
The Enigma project is an effort to make Game Maker project files compilable into native executables which can run on the end user’s operating system without the need of a runner to interpret higher level coding.
Native executables also bring many other advantages/benefits [...]

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Hat-tips - Enigma & GMToolbox

Posted on Jul 21, 2008 - 07:07 PM by GMNews

We would like to give a welcome hat-tip to Caniac and Elmernite who have both contributed many news tips in the past weeks. For the rest of you, be warned there is some serious competition for this month’s GMNews prize, but there is still time to catch up.
Here are a couple of the interesting news [...]

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ENIGMA First Release

Posted on Apr 07, 2008 - 04:04 AM by bendodge

A build of ENIGMA was released to the public for the first time today. It is a project by JoshDreamland and others designed to be open-source, cross-platform competition to Game Maker.
ENIGMA uses LateralGM (by IsmAvatar and others) as its IDE, but it is currently only an alpha release that doesn’t do much of anything. LGM [...]

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GM Competition Update

Posted on Feb 23, 2008 - 04:02 AM by bendodge

In the PR flap following the release of Game Maker 7, several independent projects were started as Game Maker replacements. Despite a considerable amount of skepticism, some of them have made noticeable progress. Here’s a report on their status.
G-Creator
The current incarnation of the abandoned G-Java project, G-Creator plans to allow users to make Java games [...]

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