Just downloaded GameMaker to try my hand on it . Really very impressive . It took me just 15 min or less to make my first game ( from its tut section) in GameMaker .
Edit : 25 Dec
Ha haa .. here i am back again !!!! with a second game from its tut section . take a look at the below screenshot which i have coded myself 🙂
Woola the tut are so well written that with any problem i worked without any ref . But yes with Game Maker is becomes to easy to develop a nice home grown 2d Game without much hoss and foss .
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