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Old 05-07-2014, 03:15 AM
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Here is part 1 of a 4 part video on putting together a map editor with Game Maker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3xPjtPstnE

It shows a truncated approach with minimal GML use, but it nevertheless gets across the point that all one has to do is select the objects they want to include, make some quick edits to customize variables of one's choosing, and do a little bit of scripting. Anyone who knows what they are doing can design a proper map editor using this approach in about a day. In comparison, Rhialto, who also knew what was he doing, spent a month coding a map editor from scratch, writing every aspect of it all by himself. Likewise he spent years coding every aspect of Wyvern which amounted to around 500,000 lines of code. But apparently we are not supposed to treat that as a special accomplishment and instead lump what he did in what what Josiah has been doing by saying they both "made" a game "from scratch." Hmm... yeah, that makes total sense.

Oh and did anyone else catch the bit where Josiah said he now taught himself multiple programming languages? As of a few months ago he was unable to figure out javascript and knows so little about languages like Java that he cannot speak about them himself and instead has to resort to posting quotes from other people (notice he doesn't ask these people if what he is doing with Game Maker is equivalent to coding a whole game from scratch). But now we're supposed to believe he's the programming language guru?