Dev.Mag Issue 14

**WILL** · 02-07-2007, 06:08 AM

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A brand new issue of Dev.Mag is out! And look who made the front cover...

Michiel and Frank wrote a really nice piece on the making of their Award winning '.S.C.A.G.' and ended up in the Feature section. Nice work guys! :thumbup:

This issue is pretty good overall, but it is especially nice for the beginners as this month they are focusing on some of the core basics.

[size=9px]Go get the lastest issue at www.devmag.org.za![/size]

**Traveler** · 02-07-2007, 08:47 AM

And once again, a fine read it is :thumbup:

**savage** · 02-07-2007, 12:00 PM

Not sure if it's mentioned anywhere, but GameMaker, which is reviewed in this edition, is written in Delphi.

**NecroDOME** · 02-07-2007, 03:40 PM

Yeah, where on the frontpage

Never thought we would make it to teh frontpage

**cairnswm** · 02-07-2007, 05:32 PM

You beat me to it this month!

I'll also start adding some non game-maker sections to my newbie articles - always a month after the game maker equivilent - so next month I'll look at Frame Based and Time Based movement of 2D sprites in a "read" programming language (like FPC/Delphi

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**jdarling** · 02-07-2007, 07:03 PM

Speaking of GameMaker and Delphi, does Mark Overmars every visit this site? It would be interesting to hear his point of view on some of the topics that go on, and to see if there will ever be a cross platform version of the application suite.

**pstudio** · 02-07-2007, 07:16 PM

It has been said by Mark that their most likely wont be a cross platform version of GM since it makes good use of DirectX. However with this new YoYo-thing there might be some changes about that, but it's unlikely.

**savage** · 02-07-2007, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by pstudio

It has been said by Mark that their most likely wont be a cross platform version of GM since it makes good use of DirectX. However with this new YoYo-thing there might be some changes about that, but it's unlikely.

When did Mark say that there would not be a cross-platform version of GM?

**pstudio** · 02-07-2007, 08:01 PM

It said so on the old gamemaker-nl side (which is no longer in use) and now it's written here under 'About the Program'.

**WILL** · 02-07-2007, 09:01 PM

Thats unfortunate, OpenGL would be used to great effect under FPC/Laz should Mark change his mind on that. In fact, if he didn't mind having a deploy-only version for the other 2 major platforms, he'd be able to do that right now.

The main problem with doing a Lazarus GUI right now is that there a few instabilities of parts of the LCL. It's being worked on, but hey, it's a small team working on it so it will take some time to get through them.