100 Game Maker Games in 10 Minutes

This isn’t made of win, it is win.

It’d be neat if it showed the game names in the video. I know there is a list, but that doesn’t help me when I see something neat that I want to try surrounded by games I don’t recognize. (;

I intend to update the list later with time signatures and links to each game, so check back tomorrow or so.

Kind of humbling.

can you add tags to sections of time in vimeo vids? web 2.0 for the lose.

I love the clip with a dude just sitting on a snail and nothing happens!

Wonderful.

Thank you Mr. Eres.

It was an enjoyable watch.

Some of those examples were probably pushing Game Maker to it’s limits, and I was delighted to witness how Game Maker and game design can be (especially in so many ways).

Once again, thanks.

I’ve only played 30 of these! Clearly I have work to do.

Cool, there are a couple of gems I haven’t played yet either. They should do this for more of the game engines!

Or just for indie games in general.

I am kindoff disheartened my game never made it on there. I guess with a name like Maziac it was discarded as “some n00by crap” by everyone.

There were way too many good games to include, just because I excluded one doesn’t mean I didn’t like it. I mean, I even cut out most of cactus’s games, and only kept like 7 or something, despite pretty much all of them deserving to be on this list.

Very nicely done. This vid really makes me want to try my hand at GM, so it’s a succes!

I updated the list with time signatures for each game. I’ll get in links eventually.

0:00 – Ad Nauseam 2
0:06 – Immortal Defense
0:12 – Iji
0:18 – Barkley: Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
0:24 – Garden Gnome Carnage
0:30 – Hello Panda
0:36 – Clean Asia
0:42 – Dustscape
0:48 – An Untitled Story
0:54 – Flywrench

1:00 – Magecraft
1:06 – Vivid Conceptions
1:12 – Return To Sector 9
1:18 – Invader
1:24 – Hyperwars
1:30 – Mondo Medicals
1:36 – Painajainen
1:42 – Muon
1:48 – Jetz Rampage 4: Revenge
1:54 – Seiklus

2:00 – The Lila Experiments
2:06 – Flail
2:12 – The Ancients’ Tome
2:18 – Idealism
2:24 – You Found the Grappling Hook
2:30 – Johnny 20
2:36 – Winter’s Heart
2:42 – Ac!Dbomb
2:48 – Deathworm
2:54 – Fatal Hearts

3:00 – Varia
3:06 – Ark 22
3:12 – Magi
3:18 – Dominos 2
3:24 – Lux
3:30 – Fractal Fighter
3:36 – The Power
3:42 – Lunar Base
3:48 – The Boomlands
3:54 – Battleships Forever

4:00 – Burn The Trash
4:06 – Forward Always Forward
4:12 – Sixty Five Million and One Bc
4:18 – Punishment: The Punishing
4:24 – The Pyramid
4:30 – Shotgun Ninja
4:36 – Kaipuu
4:42 – Tut’s Test
4:48 – Madhouse
4:54 – Ancient Ants Adventure

5:00 – Bite the Bullet
5:06 – Virtual Silence
5:12 – Calamity Annie
5:18 – The Sandbox of God
5:24 – The Cleaner
5:30 – Seven Minutes
5:36 – Legend of Shadow
5:42 – Seizuredome
5:48 – Radian
5:54 – Lock On

6:00 – Terav
6:06 – Frozzd
6:12 – Minubeat
6:18 – Karoshi 2
6:24 – Kairuga
6:30 – J20
6:36 – Hovertank 3d
6:42 – Flock
6:48 – Battle High: Team Up
6:54 – Drop in the Bucket

7:00 – 100 Invaders
7:06 – Alphasix
7:12 – The Lost Snowmen
7:18 – Byteality Tower Defense
7:24 – Zero Point
7:30 – Psychosomnium
7:36 – Fedora Spade
7:42 – Castle of Elite
7:48 – Cute Knight
7:54 – Arms

8:00 – Jumper 3
8:06 – Paragon
8:12 – Orbit Racers
8:18 – Q U I E S C E N C E
8:24 – Robbie Swifthand and the Orb of Mysteries
8:30 – Mighty Jill Off
8:36 – Johnny’s Nightmare
8:42 – Valence
8:48 – La La Land 5
8:54 – Gems

9:00 – Samurai Railroad Mansion
9:06 – The Jeluvian Project
9:12 – Ninja <3 Pirate
9:18 – The Crypts of Despair
9:24 – Runman: Monster Fracas
9:30 – Infection
9:36 – Soldexus
9:42 – So
9:48 – Coldgearz
9:54 – Mission Extreme

Thanks for the great video and for including my game , The Power.

(Yeah, I always self promote like that)

Good video, surprising how many games I recognise and have played, and thanks for including my game Dominos 2 :)

Game Maker is definetly the platform from which the most relevant indie games have emerged. I used to think Flash was where it’s at, but have been converted.

this is awesome, I’m downloading almost every single one I havent played.

It’d be interesting to have a torrent of all the games, so someone can just download them all at once. Although perhaps that needs permission first.

Anyway, I updated the Vimeo page again with links to each game, which should make downloading them easier.

Hell yes, I love things like this. Great work, Paul!

Shadow Barkley’s sprite makes me laugh *every goddamn time*.

Cool beans Eres man.

wow, that’s a really good watch, most of those games look really fun and/or interesting. I had no idea game maker was capable of doing good stuff, I think I just automatically discounted it as a new version of klik’n'play when I heard the name

YES! Gotta love some Barkley.

Awesome video. There were a lot of games on there that looked really interesting. Thanks for putting all the links up and everything. It’ll make up a good part of the next month for sure.

This is awesome. I never realised many of those were made in gamemaker. Now I want to make something :P

I’d love to know what song that was at 5:14. It’s awesome.

Fantastic video Paul. Thanks for putting this together. Like some of the others, I had no idea Game Maker was capable of such amazing looking games. (TBH, I don’t know much at all about GM.) This is a great portfolio, however!

The “NES versions” link doesn’t work.

There’s even more?

Can’t wait for a Top 200 in 15 minutes then. ^^

omg vimeo axed it

apparantly the vimeo page for the video was deleted just a couple seconds ago. so… no more links to the games. Any info on this? The links being put up anywhere else?

vimeo does not like video game videos as they are not “creative” enough.

It’s now on YouTube instead. Search YouTube for 100 Game Maker Games in 10 Minutes and you’ll find it. Someone can edit this post to embed the YouTube video instead later. There’s a link to it in the forums but I can’t post links here cause the comment spam filter eats them all, but the video ID is:

bdgQyOIyWPY

Vimeos new policy sugks so much…

hxxp://de.youtube.com/watch?v=bdgQyOIyWPY

is “game maker” a programm or just standing for such small games?

Best video in some time! I love it!

Game maker is a game making program.
Here’s a link.
http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker

Game Maker is a program by Yoyo games used for uh… Making games. Find it at http://www.yoyogames.com/make

Nice video! great to TIGsource pick it up. Yeah, I was wondering if he would do a second one since he said there are some many good games.
-Elmernite

I probably won’t do a second one any time soon, but perhaps in a year or two after more good games come out I could pick 100 new good ones (including some I left out of this one).

Bill: the music used during the second half of the video is from my unreleased game Saturated Dreamers (which is made in Game Maker but doesn’t appear in this video), and was composed by Long Dao.

Oh that’s unfortunate, I was hoping it could be downloaded from somewhere.

Btw… Did anybody notice how many violent games there were in the SNES clip? I was somewhat surprised… Not that violent games are shocking, but because they are boring to watch.

I noticed that too, surprisingly Game Maker has more variety of non-violent games than even the SNES does.

Introduced to me Flail. Just got back from playing it: what an amazing game!

Moderators: please delete David’s post — it links to a shock website

Last measure isn’t just a shock site, it’s malware that fucks with your browser.
Letting any arbitrary site run Javascript is insecure. Noscript ftw.

martin’s “Blog” is just a gore/goatse popup fest

Hmmm….I’ve come up with a mathmatic equasion for this video:

Game Maker + 100 awesome games in 10 minutes + (Touhou Music x 8-bit style) + TIGSource / YouTube’s kinda suckish quality = Fuck yeah.

Also, why, Vimeo!?!?!?!?

And I noticed I just spelt stuff wrong. Whatever.

now you can caption or annotate the vid with the game names!

And provide download links again!

Aww man I was toying with the idea with doing this, but for Clickteam games… and then I saw this brilliance.

Still, might give it a go anyway :)

Did Vimeo just pull a Hitler on Video Games? “Videos of Games are not art, thus we ban them”.

Pull a Hitler? It’s their site and they can have whatever submission guidelines they want. It’s not your /right/ to use Vimeo; it’s a privilege.

Vimeo is a site for creative content by its users, and while this video may be awesome, the creative effort from the author is debatable. Sure, it’s a lot of work to capture and put together the different parts, but nothing was really added to what was captured.

Godwin’s law, heh.

“Game Maker is a program by Yoyo games used for uh… Making games. Find it at http://www.yoyogames.com/make”

It’s not “by Yoyo games”. It’s by Mark Overmars. That’s important. They’re just publishing it and gave it a better internet presence.

Mailman: You did so in your second post as well.

Anyone got the source of the chiptune at the beginning? I love it!

Also tried a number of these games, such as TheBoomlands, Quiescance, Crypt of Despair, and Lux, and with all of them they had an executable application which when run, would sit there and not respond, only taking up RAM until I ended the process, I use Windows Vista, so maybe that has something to do with it. But its disheartening being unable to play over half these games. Any idea what might be the problem?

Francis: you must be running Vista. Use the Vista converter on the games before running them. Game Maker 6 games don’t work on Vista without it.

Also, linde, there are arguably creative aspects in deciding which 6 seconds to use, in deciding which games to use, in playing the game while recording it (sometimes it needs to be played creatively in order to get good footage), in arranging them in a particular order in order, in matching particular scenes to the music, etc. But I’m not arguing against Vimeo deleting it, they can delete whatever they want, but it wasn’t just automatic mechanical thinking which produced this, there were plenty of creative decisions involved.