[Yr7-10it] Game Maker Studio?

[Tony Richardson]

Hi Mel

We went away from GM, and now use Constuct2 (although this has only recently been upgraded to Construct3 which we haven't looked at yet).

https://www.scirra.com/construct2

Students pick it up quickly after working through only a few tutorials and produce some amazing work. Finished product can be published as HTML5.
Tony Richardson
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From: Yr7-10it [mailto:yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Melissa Yuan
Sent: Monday, 12 November 2018 9:49 PM
To: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List <yr7-10it at edulists.com.au>
Subject: [Yr7-10it] Game Maker Studio?

Hello all,

I'm interested in where others are at with their Game Maker units.

Last year I used GM Lite 8 with year 8s and it went pretty well. This year we upgraded to GM Studio 2 and the resultant student products have been much poorer.

Maybe my teaching has got worse (!) but some of the challenges with GM Studio have been:

  *   Difficulty managing the install and login
  *   No printed tutorials but lots of videos which are slower for the students to consume and keep track of where they're at
  *   Lots more of the video tutorials are for GML and are less high-school friendly
  *   More powerful software but much more complex interface
  *   Rotten Help system

I am thinking of rolling-back to GM Lite 8 which has better teaching materials and simpler interface. GM Studio just does not feel like a product aimed at education any more.

Looking forward to the STEM Videogame challenge, is it worth seriously looking at swapping over to Gamestar Mechanic or Stencyl for year 8s?

(Years 5 & 6 do Scratch, year 7 Alice)

Thanks, Mel

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