Game Maker

What works

Installs completely and correctly

Upgrading from pre-existing license

News window

Loading/saving constants from text files

Playing games

Loading project files

In-game keyboard

Installing extensions

Runing extensions

What does not

Sound

In-game mouse clicks

in-game content does not size to the window as it should.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Everything not mentioned in What-does/doesn't-work sections

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Does not recognize sound device. Installer will give installation failed message after reaching 100%, however installation has not failed. Just go to the directory where you installed it and everything will be there.

Open the wine configuration editor.

Disable both "Allow window manager to manage windows" and "allow window manager to decorate windows"

You must install IE6

$ wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

$ sh winetricks ie6

 IE6 doesn't work very well but IE7 doesn't work at all.

*Edit by Devon {

IE6 might not work well as a web browser, but it works perfectly as a web page loader in non-browser application.

}

No it doesn't it gives script errors and it sucks

*2'nd edit by Devon {

Then I must have done something different then you because I never got any script error messages when using Game Maker 8.

Mind you I've also tried Game Maker 7 with IE6 to load it's web pages.

In Game Maker 7 I too got the script error message, but never got any error messages when using Game Maker 8.

} I got a script error while trying to change the activation option on the side to 'Re-install existing license'.

With WINE version 1.3.17, exporting as an executable doesn't seem to work. It may just be that some settings need to be reconfigured. If you find a working solution, please let us know.

This how-to shows how to get Game Maker running best. It assumes you have Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat installed. There may be different procedures for different versions/distros.

Make sure you've updated Wine to the latest version(1.3.15). If you haven't, copy and paste this in Terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.3
wine --version


The last command should show "wine-1.3.15".

To make Game Maker run correctly, make sure that Internet Explorer 6 is installed. I don't think the other versions of IE work. To do so, open Terminal and copy and paste the following:

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks ie6
sh winetricks directmusic
sh winetricks dsound
sh winetricks d3dx9


It will open the installer for IE6 which then allows Game Maker's Softwrap screen to load. Then it installs directmusic and dsound to allow sounds to play. It also installs all the DirectX tricks needed for Game Maker to run correctly.

After that, install Game Maker like normal. If you've already installed Game Maker, it should still work.

After following the above steps, everything seems to work fine, but when running games there is some lag. Because all these tests were run in VirtualBox, the lag and other problems may be nonexistant in an actual installation.

Note: Because of WINE's update to version 1.3.17, exporting as an executable doesn't seem to work anymore. If you find a way to get it work, please let us know.