Thu Jan 01, 2015 4:02 pm
Thu Jan 01, 2015 6:47 pm
Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:30 am
Jolly wrote:The Gamebuino is such a nice device to do a bit of easy programming or to start learning how to program. I think a Game Maker would take some of that away.
Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:54 am
Wed Jan 14, 2015 7:49 am
Myndale wrote:Jolly wrote:The Gamebuino is such a nice device to do a bit of easy programming or to start learning how to program. I think a Game Maker would take some of that away.
Ageed.
From a technical perspective the problem with Gamemaker-type software is that the underlying engine is provided as-is and the games themselves wind up being a collection of assets (images, sounds etc), data files and scripts. All of this takes RAM....something the Arduino architecture sorely lacks. That's not to say it couldn't be done, you could have your Gamemaker output C code which it would then compile with calls to gcc, but it wouldn't be quite as straightforward as it is for other architectures.