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YoYo Games has announced their first release on the Mac, it is the Pro version of Game Maker 7 adapted for the Macintosh environment and contains almost all the feature of Game Maker 7 and more. This version supports Intel only Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard) and v10.6 (Snow Leopard), remote update mechanism (with regular updates for bug fixes and new features), full drag-and-drop, GML scripting and an extension mechanism to incorporate 3rd party libraries. In addition, version seven includes:

• Room Editor
• Sprite Editor
• Path Editor

Game Maker, not to be confused with Al Staffieri’s FutureBasic-based GameMaker, can create standalone games that you can share with friends. You can download Game Maker for Mac from the link below. An introductory price of $20 until the end of August, then $25 from 1st September. You can buy a license for Game Maker for Mac now from the YoYo Games Appstore.

Related Links:

• Download: Game_Maker.dmg
• Blitz3D

Novashell is a high-level 2D game maker that tries to handle all the hard work behind the scenes allowing you to whip up sweet games using pathfinding, dialog, persistant dynamically sized maps with contruction/decontruction, save anywhere, and especially features that adventure and RPG type games would use. It’s also built to allow easy sharing of games you make and modding of them. The underlying concept is everything is cut and pastable and can be added and removed even during play. The worlds/games/mods it makes can be played under Windows, OS X (universal binaries available), and Linux without changes. Free to use and distribute stand-alone games. Features include; Multi-platform support using the Clanlib library, A*Star pathfinding, advanced 2D Physics, create stand-alone games, and more!

• Related Link: Novashell