Engine making don'ts, Preventing clones

Klik sucks. Even Game Maker is better than that. How could you possibly put it up to the level of "real?"

ENIGMA FTW, even though it isn't done yet.

Fixed. Same reason as stated by Hohoo.

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Just so you know, Multimedia Fusion is made by KlikTeam. Unless you're refering to TGF, I have no idea what's so bad about MMF.
Also, the poster you quoted was refering to C++ and Python as real languages, not to Klik products.

Say sorry and the day is saved.

Actually, I think a good idea would be to use silhouettes of regular sprites. That way it can show animations and their speed properly, but no one would use silhouette sprites in a game, so they would surely get their own graphics.



Incidentally, I've been thinking on and off of making an engine which would concentrate only on the area of basic physics and movement, and which would go into VERY great depth as to how everything works in it. I'd probably even include a big document used as a tutorial. But before doing that, I'd have to finally figure out exactly how Mario games' physics work, because they would need to be very accurate in such an engine.

But how about a game that uses silhouettes?

Engine-Making DON'TS:

DON'T make an engine

I don't know if anyone is so mind-numbingly lazy that they'd base their game around silhouettes just on account of not wanting to change graphics in an engine.

And even if the game was meant to be about silhouettes regardless of the engine, the people would probably get laughed out of the house for using the unedited filler silhouettes from the engine anyway.

Someone who do things like this probably would

That is the Best and worst game of all time. BTW, he made that completely from scratch, and it became very popular, and considered a "cult game".

Er how about the collision box with letters to represent what sprite its supposed to be in it? Then maybe blank sound files named after what kinda sound should go in them

Don't make a generic SMB3 engine, we have too many of those. Instead, try something unique, or make an engine for another game franchise.

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In other words: Stop making SMB3, Paper Mario and semi-3D Mario Kart engines and try to make a really stable Yoshi's Island engine, challage yourself into a REAL, WORKING Galaxy engine or just go different with a 2D Mario 64 engine, a Panel de Pon/Puzzle League/Dr. Mario engine or something else nobody even though about doing! I still don't know why no one cares about Mario Golf or Tennis, for example!

This is actually very clever.

Another challenge would be, an engine (applying your rules) for NSMB movement with moves from SM64 or SMS. A few have been made. Seriously, stop remaking SMB3.