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is it possible to use Game Maker and then port the game to Dreamcast?

Short answer: no

Jenkins wrote:Short answer: no

but it is possible with flash games right?
i read on wikipedia that senile team ported a flash browser game over to dreamcast.

it's probably possible game maker uses the delphi programming language/IDE and the dreamcast probably uses c or c++ so for game maker games to work on the dreamcast the code for the games would have to be converted to a programming language that the dreamcast can understand and be made to fit the system specs such as being limited to 2MB sound chip, 8MB VRAM and 16MB system RAM as opposed to modern pc specs.


http://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/vie ... f=5&t=7692

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameMaker:_Studio

Charlton wrote:

Jenkins wrote:Short answer: no

but it is possible with flash games right?
i read on wikipedia that senile team ported a flash browser game over to dreamcast.

Sorry, but that's another "no". I was able to re-use the assets from the flash game, but not the code. I had to re-write that from scratch.

Roel wrote:

Charlton wrote:

Jenkins wrote:Short answer: no

but it is possible with flash games right?
i read on wikipedia that senile team ported a flash browser game over to dreamcast.

Sorry, but that's another "no". I was able to re-use the assets from the flash game, but not the code. I had to re-write that from scratch.

hmm interesting.
so to get your feet wet in dreamcast indie game development what would one need?
and is there any kind of frame work like a game maker type program to help?