[kwlug-disc] another presentation idea

[Charles M]

Parts of GameMaker have been open sourced, but not the engine itself.
Godot is the goto for most developers who develop FLOSS games, though
there is a big list of engines and frameworks on wikipedia that are
FLOSS. Gamemaker is one of the simplest engines to learn, but lacks 3D
features, and isn't FLOSS. There's a free as in beer version, but it
only lets you code for Opera's GX.games site. You can code full games,
you just cannot export them without paying Opera their various subs.
Still, the latest version is kind of nice as the "Ubuntu" export is to
an AppImage.

Godot is probably the way to go for most people who want to develop 2D
or 3D games under Linux, but I feel like it has a bit more of a
learning curve. Still, it wasn't just GameMaker. When Andrew and I
emailed I mentioned Inkscape, GIMP, Aseprite, and Audacity were a part
of the process too.

Cheers,

Charles

On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 at 18:53, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc
<kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>
>
> Andrew mentioned this during the meeting, but we were not sure that
> GameMaker was Free/Open Source. It looks like it is not? People were
> talking about Godot, but that is different?
>
> - Paul
>
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 04:03:19PM -0400, Charles M wrote:
> > I mentioned to Andrew that I'd be willing to do a brief presentation
> > on GameMaker Studio, which now has a beta client for Linux. For the
> > past month and a bit I've been making a few small games for Linux
> > using GameMaker, Inkscape, GIMP, Asprite and Audacity. Most recently
> > I've been working on redoing Shamus, the 1982 game published by
> > Synapse software.
> >
> > If there's interest, I'm happy to do a 1/2 session talking about all the tools.
> >
> > Charles
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 at 13:39, Mikalai Birukou <mb at 3nsoft.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2023-10-09 14:44, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 11:15:25PM -0400, Steve Izma wrote:
> > > >> Hi Paul,
> > > >>
> > > >> I've been been corresponding with Erez Zukerman, who owns ZSA,
> > > >> the producer of keyboards, e.g.: <https://www.zsa.io/moonlander>
> > > >>
> > > >> He lives in New Hamberg, so I asked him if I could get a chance
> > > >> to look at the keyboards (non-virtually). I told him that KWLUG
> > > >> people often talk about keyboards and would probably be
> > > >> interested in more info about them. He offered to come to a
> > > >> meeting to demonstrate them. Since we'll probably be back to
> > > >> in-person meetings sometime this fall, do you think this would be
> > > >> appropriate for one of those meetings?
> > > > Do we want to think about booking Erez in?
> > > > We would need some work to figure out how to make the visual demo work
> > > > virtually, but I think this is doable.
> > >
> > >
> > > Haven't we already seen in action use of OBS, that
> > >
> > > - takes in different inputs,
> > >
> > > - shows them in a window
> > >
> > > - that has been shared into BBB presentation
> > >
> > > - with bonus of having prepared scenes
> > >
> > >
> > > It looks like a solution. And someone has a direct experience 😉, if I
> > > recall correctly.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Are you interested in presenting your Framework laptop?
> > > >
> > > > - Paul
> > > >
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