[Yr7-10it] Game Maker Studio?

[Melissa Yuan]

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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