Castle Paradox

Joe Man · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:21 pm Post subject: Anyone remember this?

DIY Gamer had a little feature about an old program called Game-Maker from the 90s. This is unrelated to the current Game Maker you all know and love, and had infact been discontinued by the time the current one was even produced. I thought I'd ask the community here to see if anyone remembered; apparently it once had a pretty thriving community, but slipped into complete obscurity since the 90s. Did any of you older members use it? Were there any other tools similar that just totally disappeared? The 90s were an interesting time for this sort of software, thanks to the whole Shareware thing. I was too young to really remember much besides Battle Beast and Descent II, so I'm a little out of touch with this.
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Moogle1 · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 4:56 pm Post subject:

It looks familiar. That may be the one I bought but returned when it didn't run on my computer.
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satyrisci · **~guo~** Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 73

I had this when I was quite young (about 8 or 9) ... I never really figured out how to use it though. Reading this is quite interesting, thanks!

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:48 pm Post subject:

haha! I would have been delighted to have discovered this back in the day. The game-maker that inspired me to make the OHRRPGCE was relatively primitive compared to that.

TMC · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:42 am Post subject:

Wow, that's awesome. And with 20x20 tiles, 320x200 resolution and "the only supported music format weird and proprietary", the games look a lot like OHR games. But it has a lot of features that the OHR still doesn't have, like good animation. I think I'll draw some inspiration from it :)

There's a wiki which has lots of information about the engine.
http://www.aderack.com/game-maker/index.php?title=Game-Maker

You can see lots of screenshots of the very nice editors here and here.
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J_Taylor · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 4:50 am Post subject:

We need a Wiki like that. One unlike everybody else's. Cool engine from the screenshots, but I'm stickin' with OHR.
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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

http://www.aderack.com/game-maker/index.php?title=Reptalia

Oh wow, I actually played this, and just a couple of years after it was released, too.
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:56 am Post subject:

J_Taylor · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 8:36 am Post subject:

Downloaded the article, will read it later, considering giving it a shot.
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The Mansion: .05%
Shattered Alliance: .05%

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FnrrfYgmSchnish · Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:31 pm Post subject: