Still so cute of a subject

I see making games in there...intrigued! Have you tried before?

Yeah. My most successful result so far (in 2011) was the top search result for "Full Tour" for a while. I also made levels for both Make A Good Level X contests (making a level in Super Mario Bros. X which will then be Let's Played by raocow); I made it into the "first" world of both contests, but there's technically a garbage world before World 1 in both so I was far from a loser both times.

I've been playing with the OHRRPGCE for over a decade at this point and I used to play with ZZT and the PS1 RPG Maker as a kid when I could. My gallery actually contains sprites and screenshots of games I've worked on.

Cool! Well then i think you can scratch that from the list of thing you're bad at!

I got 2nd place out of two entries in one game contest, 3rd out of four entries in another (the one where I had some modicum of success and made the best game I've ever made), 253rd out of 273 entries in another, and so on. I tend to place "Not Worst", but never quite "Good".

I see. Well, there's a difference between being great and being bad i guess! Personally i also tried with gamemaker once. I got quite far, with about 200 frame of animation for the main chaarter, a full physics engine and a few boss, but schools forced me to leave it for awhile...when i finally came back to it many years later, my version of gamemaker wasn't working anymore and the newer version wasn't compatible with my project...it was quite a bummer! I should try again one day.

Game Maker was one I used to try too. It was pretty versatile, but that same versatility made it difficult to make anything with. I could do simple overhead beat-em-up/maze games but could never get camera scrolling or platforming to work the way I wanted it to.

Yeah, the platformer stumped me for a long while too. If i had to restart, i'll probably use something like multimedia fusion or unity.