Game Maker is a great program. You can make a simple platformer/arcade game without no code at all (just using drag&drop actions) and once you learn it you can use GML (Game Maker Language) to do more complex stuff. Anyone that's interested in using GM and has troubles with it is free to mail me @
onyx.softworks@gmail.com. I'm experienced GM user and I can help you.
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