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Game-Maker (aka RSD Game-Maker) is an MS-DOS-based suite of game design tools, accompanied by demonstration games, produced between 1991 and 1995 by the Amherst, New Hampshire based Recreational Software Designs and sold through direct mail in the US by KD Software. Game-Maker also was sold under various names by licensed distributors in the UK, Korea…
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The extracted context around Game-Maker shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Game-Maker → A-J Games, Adventures, All, Also, Although, Andrew Stone, Animation, Attack, Barracuda, Below, Both, Canadian, CD-ROM, Cireneg's Rings, Create Your Own Games, Crullo, Donut, Gamasutra, Game-Maker Maker, GameLynk Another extracted example is Game-Maker → A-J Games, A-J's Quest, An, Andy Stone's Metroid-influenced, AOL Kids, Barracuda, Blinky, CD-ROM, Deluxe Paint Animation, GameLynk, Hedgehog, Jeremy LaMar, Joan Stone's, LHarc, Link, Lobster, Mark Hadley, Matt Bell, Nebula, Of. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 205 structured relationships around Game-Maker. Examples in this analysis include Game-Maker → Developer → Recreational Software Designs and Game-Maker → Original authors → Gregory Andrew Stone Oliver Stone George Oliver Stone Joan Stone. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game-Maker | Developer | Recreational Software Designs | 1.00 | infobox |
| Game-Maker | Original authors | Gregory Andrew Stone Oliver Stone George Oliver Stone Joan Stone | 1.00 | infobox |
| Game-Maker | Platform | MS-DOS, Windows 3.1x | 1.00 | infobox |
| Game-Maker | Release | 1991; 35 years ago (1991) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Game-Maker | Type | Game creation system | 1.00 | infobox |
| Computer Gaming World | instance of | and full-screen four-way scrolling.Primary distribution for Game-Maker was through advertisements in the back of PC and game magazines | 0.80 | text |
| VideoGames | instance of | and full-screen four-way scrolling.Primary distribution for Game-Maker was through advertisements in the back of PC and game magazines | 0.80 | text |
| Deluxe Paint is easily imported | instance of | image data produced with outside programs | 0.80 | text |
| split into background tiles or sprites.Game engineThrough RSD's proprietary XFERPLAY engine | instance of | image data produced with outside programs | 0.80 | text |
| all Game-Maker games run in 256-color full-screen VGA | instance of | image data produced with outside programs | 0.80 | text |
| at an eccentric 312x196 resolution | instance of | image data produced with outside programs | 0.80 | text |
| LHarc auto-compression | instance of | incorporates external functions | 0.80 | text |
The concept neighborhoods around Game-Maker bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Games, Game and Tools. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Game-Maker, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Game-Maker with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Game-Maker to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Construction & Influence, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Game-Maker · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout