{"author_name":"shard123","cat":"October Challenge 2011","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"October 12, 2011 7:00 am","epoch":1318420800,"text":"From what I’ve seen done in game maker, I’d say the next step is pretty much anything in the realm of programming languages. If you’re uncomfortable with getting down in the dirt and building your own environment for system and I\/O (as a game developer, you probably should be), there’s a bunch of middleware or engines that will smooth things out. As I’m not enough of a game developer to avoid the gritty bits though, I haven’t really tried much of what’s available and I can’t recommend anything specific. Many would probably suggest Flash\/AS3 since there are nice tools there now, and great possibilities. Flixel should be a good starting point, I bet.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"October 12, 2011 7:12 am","epoch":1318421520,"text":"yep, I agree with flixel.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Jacic","time":"October 12, 2011 7:39 pm","epoch":1318466340,"text":"I definitely agree about flash\/AS3. If you think you would be more comfortable with low level stuff, you could try C\/C++ with SDL\/OpenGL. GML (Game Maker Language for those who don’t know) is very similar to C\/C++.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"October 13, 2011 5:33 am","epoch":1318501980,"text":"I’ll put pygame.org into the hat. Since I’m a developer of that.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"October 16, 2011 9:46 am","epoch":1318776360,"text":"How about Game Maker HTML5. It’s more advanced and similar to Game Maker. *laughs*","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1318415880,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"63409","p_author":"shard123","p_authorkey":"3824","p_urlkey":"99187","p_title":"From Game Maker to where?","p_cat":"October Challenge 2011","p_event":"LD21","p_time":"1318415880","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"6","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"3824","us_name":"shard123","us_username":"shard123","event_start":"1313712000","event_key":"7","event_name":"LD21"},"text":"

Hey guys, I’ve been\u00a0realizing that I think there’s really not much more that I can do with Game Maker. I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions as to what platform I should move to next. Something similar to Game Maker but maybe a little more advanced.<\/p>\n \n

Tags: game<\/a>, maker<\/a><\/p>","time":"October 12th, 2011 5:38 am","title":"From Game Maker to where?"}