Game-Maker (DOS)

Game-Maker

Platform: DOS Year: 1991 Developer: Recreational Software Designs

Game-Maker is a collection of game-making tools and a game engine that enable the user to create games in DOS without the need for any programming knowledge. Users can draw backgrounds, animate and plan monsters, and create characters to move around and attack with weapons. Over the years, upgrades were released which added functionality to the editor, allowing for more complex games.

Screenshots

Game-Maker's designer menu. An early version of the block editor. A later version of the monster editor. Modifying a character's actions. Working with an early version of the map editor. Playing one of the pre-made games.

Music

VGMPF Album Art

Music was included in version 1.05 and above and several example songs were included. However, the music was not created specifically for Game-Maker, but was instead a collection of popular ROL files from other shareware games and bulletin board services converted to CMF, probably with Creative Labs' ROL to CMF program. The identity of the original ROL files has been discovered through a collective effort of the Game-Maker community, though, since the ROL format did not store meta data, some of the composers and the arrangers of each track remain unknown.

For some reason, Game-Maker was never released with a song number 3, which is why it is not listed.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
01	Game-Maker Opening	Henri Chalifour	Unknown	0:15		Download
02	Game-Maker Song 1	Unknown	Unknown	2:10		Download
03	Game-Maker Song 2	Antonio Vivaldi	Unknown	3:59		Download
04	Game-Maker Song 4	John Williams	Unknown	2:36		Download
05	Game-Maker Song 5	Unknown	Unknown	3:33		Download
06	Game-Maker Song 6	Jaromír Vejvoda	Unknown	4:54		Download

Credits

• Ripper: TheAlmightyGuru
• Recorder: TheAlmightyGuru
• Game Credits:
  • Not Credited Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
  • Not Credited Composer: Henri Chalifour
  • Not Credited Composer: John Williams
  • Not Credited Composer: Jaromír Vejvoda
  • Not Credited Composer: Unknown
  • Not Credited Arranger: Unknown

(Source: Game lacks audio credits.)

Source verification is needed.

Game Rip

Format	Download
	Download (Info)

The CMF songs are located in the .\SND folder. The tracks have been recorded during game play with DOSBox v0.74. The rip includes the original ROL files.

Audio Devices

Music
Sound

(Source)

The original release only supported PC Speaker sound effects. Version 1.05 added Sound Blaster support for music, and version 2.0 added support for digital sound effects.

Releases

USA Title: Game-Maker Platform: DOS Released: 1991-??-?? Publisher: Recreational Software Designs

Links

• aderack.com/game-maker/index.php?title=Main_Page - Game-Maker Wiki.
• mobygames.com/game-group/game-engine-rsd-game-maker - MobyGames - Games made with Game-Maker.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game-Maker - Wikipedia.