Game Maker

Probably the coolest IDE for beginners out there. An object oriented sprite model, icon-based as well as text-based scripting language, lots of facilities for manipulating sprites and images, all available for free.

http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/gmaker/

While GameMaker might not be suited for application development per se, neither is MicrosoftExcel. I think this points to a genre of software development tools that is ignored by developers who are big on TuringComplete systems: ArtWare?. Applications and utilities like PhotoShop, PowerPoint, Excel, etc which let you generate creative and original content rapidly.

(Excel is Turing-complete.)

So is GameMaker, even without using the built-in scripting language.

I suggest use GameMaker4.3 as it is the best version. Don't use 5.0 or newer.

Can you elaborate on that?

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