Humble GameMaker Bundle

[kane_magus]

Interesting. Less because of the games, but because GameMaker itself is in the bundle, as well as source code for most of the games (or only the source code, in some cases).

I'm considering biting on this just to get GameMaker, if nothing else. Well, I have about two weeks to decide, at any rate.

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[owsf2000]

I'd probably try for this as well, likewise mainly (or primarily) because gamemaker itself is included, but I often have hard times actually trying to make a purchase on the humble bundles. Probably because my default websurfing settings break their website enough to prevent it.

This is probably a good enough deal that I should at least attempt it again though and I can likely afford the 15 dollar+ option to get the extra platforms. I'll pick up a mastarcard gift card this evening and give it a shot and post about the results either way it goes. If I find I can't make the purchase I'll just spend the card on bandcamp since there's a bunch of vocaloid music out I wanna buy on there.

[owsf2000]

Ended up not bothering after looking into it a little bit. Seems Yoyo Games has decided to move on to "Game Maker Studio 2", which is probably why they're letting people grab the original on humble like this. I checked on Steam to see if the original was still around but it's more or less not.

That is, it's still on my wish list, but there's no price tag for it and you can't visit the store page anymore. This also means there's probably no more support for the original anymore, so if there are any bugs in it you can expect them to stay there. I dunno if it runs well on the latest Windows or not, but as microsoft continues to tweak and force everyone to upgrade I suspect that'll become an issue eventually as well.

The new game maker studio on steam doesn't have a free version either. I guess they figger they don't need to advertise their software anymore so there's just the more expensive GM2.

I guess I have issue with them boasting the value of the Game Maker bundles in the humble when it's not actually possible to buy them anymore as well. (Only Game Maker 2 is available for sale now, both on Steam and at YoYo Games directly.)

Still, this may be the last chance to buy it at all (the pre GM2 edition anyway) so you should grab it if you think you'll ever make use of it.

[kane_magus]

I'll probably still get it anyway, just to play around with it, even if I never do much with it. Same reason I got the earlier versions of RPG Maker in whatever bundle/sale they had at the time, even with the newer MV version available (though I've admittedly done little to nothing with those, either), and I'll probably get the MV version of RPG Maker whenever it hits a good enough sale (which would likely be when whatever later version after MV comes out).

[owsf2000]

Despite what I said I'm still potentially going to try to get that humble bundle, if only the most basic version of it. Looks like both Game Maker 1 and 2 have online logins for license purposes (kinda like how steam does it) although the old version in the humble bundle also has an option for offline verification by downloading some license file to point the verifier program at. (They removed this ability with GM2) Also it has a 3-machine activation limit I believe. Keep that in mind when getting the bundle. (GM2 does at least. Still, for a cheap price like what they're asking I guess that's a minor thing overall. Would be a game killer at full price though.)

Basically I went ahead and got a mastercard gift card yesterday anyway so I could buy some more stuff off bandcamp as planned, and there's some money left over. Either way I'll think about it tonight and probably attempt to get the humble bundle. (But as I said I've had horrible luck with their website beyond the original 2 humble bundles.)

[owsf2000]

I ended up throwing a couple bucks at it successfully this morning. Painful experience.

One thing to note, not everything you'll get is redeemable on steam apparently. In the humble bundle page you'll get, the games themselves will have steam keys. There will be download links to the source codes and misc stuff (haven't tried downloading them yet.) but the Game Maker and modules themselves have to be redeemed through yoyo games directly, so be prepared to make an account. Painful Experience. (Mainly with trying to get the damned captcha to work. Otherwise all you need is an email address.)

I'm not going to install game maker on this comp since I plan on getting a new one later this month or next and I'm fairly certain the license has a 3 activation limit. (Thank you Spore for making that somewhat popular.)

[kane_magus]

I just got it as well. Yeah, I had to click on the fucking captcha thing on the YoYo Games site like four or five times before it finally registered.

To me, the stupidest thing is that, while GameMaker Studio is indeed not redeemable through Steam directly via the Humble site, once you activate the Humble licenses on the YoYo Games site, you then can link GMS1 to Steam via the YoYo Games site. So.... ....why the fuck didn't YoYo Games just give Steam keys to Humble to begin with, given that GMS1 is still on Steam, even if you can no longer directly buy it on Steam? Just to force people to create a YoYo Games account, I guess (which, to be fair, you probably would've had to do anyway)? Granted, there is no longer a way to access the GMS1 Steam store page (even if you click "Store Page" in Steam itself for the GMS1 item in the Steam library, it just redirects to the base level Steam page). That said, GMS1 does still have a Steam forums page, though (at least for now).

Also, after you redeem GMS1 on Steam via the YoYo Games site via the Humble site, you apparently get a 40% discount for buying GMS2 on Steam, i.e. $59.99 USD instead of $99.99 USD (which is still too rich for my blood at the moment, but may be something to keep in mind for the future, at least). That is, it's the same "Upgrade" discount you get on the YoYo Games site itself. No idea if any potential future Steam promotions on GMS2 (if any) would be in addition to that 40% discount or not, though. I'll add GMS2 to my wishlist on Steam just so that I'll presumably get any discount notifications in the future. We'll see how that goes.

Anyway, onward to not using GameMaker Studio for much of anything at all, same as I've done with RPG Maker so far! ¬_¬

[owsf2000]

I'm sure the reason Yoyo Games didn't just include steam keys is "control" and all that. Either way, I have it now even though I won't likely use it any time soon like yourself. If that upgrade discount v2 stays around then that might be useful in the future.

Although I suppose it would remove your license for 1.4 at the same time (and the ability to do an offline verification check.) Apparently some people have gripes with version 2 anyway so I won't be in a hurry to upgrade. (At least one comment left in the steam comments included something about 2.0 working fine for them until the latest update - then the program wouldn't run anymore. Hurrah for auto-updating without the ability to downgrade.