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Comment by madjam002 | Hacker News Reader

Last time I used Game Maker was just before they got acquired by YoYoGames, it actually inspired me to learn programming along with Roblox (early 2007).

It’s cool to see how it’s still going!

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Same! I created numerous games with early GameMaker as a pre-teen. I even managed to use it for making various useful little programs, like an interactive calculator to show my Dad’s company that the bandwidth required for multiple security cameras would eat up all the bandwidth available on the relatively slow internet connections. It definitely had an enormous positive effect on my career in software.

Game Maker was how I got into programming in the early 2000s! Looking at the website now, it looks very different today, but the core is still there.

A lot of old things from 90s are still going surprisingly strong - Python, JavaScript, Java etc.

Yup, same here! Used GameMaker extensively before getting into Minecraft modding and Ludum Dare game jams with different engines (LWJGL and XNA/MonoGame). 16+ years later and I'm a Senior Gameplay Programmer

Wow, I followed that exact same path! First GameMaker, then I moved on to Roblox later, and now programming is part of my job!

I think I might still have some of the old .exe files for the games I made back in the day...

Agreed! I'm assuming this is the same gamemaker I used back in highschool (~2004), which is what got me into programming in the first place.

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