Talk:GameMaker
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These two pages are clearly about the same program and ought to be merged. According to the program's website:
the name is "Game Maker", not "Gamemaker".
This has been discussed on the Game Maker Community several times, and thus it is now stressed that the Windows program by Mark Overmars is two words: Game and Maker. There are three of these programs, actually.
- Game Maker, written by Mark Overmars, for Windows.
- GameMaker, written by Al Staffieri Jr., for Mac OS 7.5+.
- Gamemaker, written by Gary Kitchen, for the Commodore 64.
The first should be in the Game Maker article, and the second and third should share the Gamemaker article. The Gamemaker article should also have a link to the Game Maker article (ie This article is about blah blah for the Game Maker article see Game Maker).
- There should be three separate articles: One called "Garry Kitchen's Gamemaker", one called Game Maker (Windows), and one called "GameMaker (Macintosh)"JettaMann 14:14, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
There is also Game-Maker which was a DOS based GCS (Game Creation System) put out by RSD (Recreational Software Designs) in the early 1990's.
Really these things should have a category or subcategory to themselves as there are many others for the c64 such as Mirror Soft Game Creator (Published in 1984), Brøderbund Arcade Game Construction Kit (Published 1988), Sensible Software Shoot Em-Up Construction Kit (1987), Incentive Software Graphic Adventure Creator (1986), and there were others, Not to mention there are multiple GCS that are still current for example ika (Cross Platform) http://ika.sourceforge.net and MegaZeux http://megazeux.sourceforge.net/
