{"id":141,"date":"2013-02-05T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T22:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/game-maker\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T15:29:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T23:29:57","slug":"game-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/game-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many others I have always thought it would be fun to make a computer game. Up until now, I never have. That all changed when I stumbled upon a program called &#8216;game maker&#8217; (<a href=\"\">http:\/\/www.gamemaker.nl\/<\/a>).<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><br \/>\nWithin a few hours after downloading the program I was playing my first computer game &#8211; and yes, I made it all by myself! Immediately I realized that I could make my own shareware game (using game maker of course) and sell it on the internet. So I did! (See for yourself &#8211; check it out at http:\/\/www.brilliantowl.com\/MathFlashCards.html) Two months later, having sold 9 copies of my game, I made $60! I admit, I could use a little polishing on my game making skills &#8211; but its not a bad start. Game Maker is a decent piece of software. Written by a university professor who actually teaches the art of game making brings some assurance that it was built right. The registration fee was only $20 (when I purchased it) &#8211; well worth the money. Game Maker isn&#8217;t all that hard to use either. My 10 year old has even played with it. Check it out for yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many others I have always thought it would be fun to make a computer game. Up until now, I never have. That all changed when I stumbled upon a program called &#8216;game maker&#8217; (http:\/\/www.gamemaker.nl\/). Within a few hours after downloading the program I was playing my first computer game &#8211; and yes, I made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}