game-editor.com

using Google i looked on the internet for Game editor being mentioned in any other site than this one...Never Found One. GE is way Better than Game Maker so why arnt we in the download list it just makes me sad.... will any one help me spread the word of GE in other Game creation websites or just plain old downloading websites?

i believe we all have been trying to spread the word.
i posted a small topic on kongregate.
And Kall made that awesome trailer.
Draz has done a lot of things to spread the word too, such as posting about it in many forums i believe.
It is quite difficult i find.
If a TV ad could work, that may be helpful, but what language and/or country, considering there are a LOT of different people here in the forum

what if we used kalls trailer as and ad and created a GE phone line?

ya, good luck putting it on tv. I'm willing to bet (since you don't have GE-Pro and your 15) that you don't have any where near enough money to do that. And a phone line would be out of sight. Unless you want to use your house phone as one. Mak (and many of us for that matter) don't have that much time or money on our hands, and a bunch of kids answering the phone would not make me want to buy a product. I don't mean to rain on your parade, but posting on website and telling friends are good, but the best thing we can all do is to Make Full Games that are at least semi-professional looking with our own sprites, so then more people see and say, "woah! if they can make sweet games like that, then I can too!" Think about how you found GE and what you like best of it and spread the word. But most of all, we just need more finished games. We only have 2 FULL games (that i can think of that are not like mini games like bubble breaker, pong, ect) well actually more then that since D-Soldier made a few, but they were on rapidshare and the link is expired..........anyway, make games, and tell friends.

First off, I've typed "Game Editor" in google and actually quite a few sites popped up (most of them download portals, German ones also).
Which is quite good.
But not good enough as you guys have kindly noticed.

jimmynewguy wrote: we just need more finished games

100.1% agreed. I had started a topic quite a while ago asking whether any of us here made commercial games with GE. There were about 2-3 votes that were positive, but nobody replied. And those potential commercial-game-makers can't be seen or heard of anywhere, which is what can be said for their games also. I have the impression that there quite a few out there, but they just bought Game Editor and "got outta here", refusing to give credit. Nobody can blame them for it, what they're doing is perfectly legal, it's just a sad thing. Correct me if I overlooked anyone.

Well for one, I'd say there needs to be better graphics in the games (city builder has great potential btw,love that game!) not necessarily finished games, although that would help! Ive got some screens coming up soon and I have no problem with them being shown on the website.

But the website... lots of nice information but there is definitely a need for a new template/design.

I'll happily spread the word to other dev's once ive finished my initial testing of the engine.

If we ever make a website, have DST make a banner and whoever makes a website of any kind, Idc if it's about baking cookies, put the banner on the site

DST make a banner? Yes, DST made my little Hblade tag thingy

jimmynewguy wrote:but the best thing we can all do is to Make Full Games that are at least semi-professional looking with our own sprites

In J's Adventure 2, i'll make all the graphics myself, and finally FINISH it! With the canjump function(that I just started to understand), a switch character ingame(test) and a working shooting function, will make that a good example to what jimmynewguy meant.

People are more interested by making RPG games(which GE obsviously can do!)
I bet Game-Editor would be more known if there was a banner saying something
like :"Feel like making Rpg, action-adventure,chess,or any kind of game?
Try Game-Editor!"

refresh wrote: using Google i looked on the internet for Game editor being mentioned in any other site than this one...Never Found One.

I'm not sure why, i've seen it in a few game resource pages. But there aren't many game results, or spawned creator sites from it, (though i hear asmodeus is trying to change that).

refresh wrote:GE is way Better than Game Maker so why arnt we in the download list it just makes me sad....

Never badmouth the competition. If the best thing can say about your product is that the other companies products suck, then that doesn't say much for your product.

The truth is, Game Maker is a great piece of software. Game Editor is also a great piece of software. But they both have strong points and weak points. Its true of anything.

We don't know where these things will end up in the future. GM has a much wider user base (100x larger), but it also shortcuts some elements of game structure and coding; so when it comes to utilitarian programming, the smaller group here at GE can definitely give them a run for their money.

And since Mak opened up the source, (and from what i've seen, mr. Overmars is excessively protective), things may turn around soon. It all depends on what we contribute.

speaking of contributing the source:

Azou wrote:People are more interested by making RPG games(which GE obsviously can do!)

What i think ge lacks are larger handling systems for rpg events. It would be nice to have a built in cue array for dialog/text, healthmeters, and cinematic triggers.

While many users write their own, which is a great thing, it doesn't make rpg's accessible to the new user, or at least, not friendly.

But its not too far away; considering that we now have a few members who have written text handling systems - and have some idea of how they should be, the information we need to add this to the main program is floating around the forum already. I will bet you any amount of money that knowing how the feature should operate is infinitely more important than knowing the specific syntax for coding it; You can look up c syntax on the net; find out anything you want to know about c. But knowing how dialog and cinematics should function? Only people with experience in making rpgs know that.



My top suggestions are:

Finish your games! Give google some content to list!
Help develop the wiki page!
Help Asmodeus develop the site he's making!

And don't forget to have fun!

Ok,DST!