AfterBlock - Blockland Desktop Program [UPDATE 1.2 RELEASED]

[Greek2me]

Requirements:

    OpenGL enabled graphics card
    DirectX 8 or above
    At least 512mb ram (1GB recommended)
    Internet Explorer 6 or above for web elements

What's it doing that you recommend a GB of ram for it!?

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[Sheath]

What's it doing that you recommend a GB of ram for it!?

AfterBlock is a little heavier on memory then I'd like. Especially virtual memory. It can run fine of 512MB, but 1GB is probably good if you intend to have Blockland open and other things running.

[Tom]

No matter how good you make it it will still suck because it uses GameMaker. GameMaker isn't intended for this sort of thing.

[Kilser]

He has smart one.

I has smarts.

[Sheath]

No matter how good you make it it will still suck because it uses GameMaker. GameMaker isn't intended for this sort of thing.

Yoyogames now supports the creation of utilities, and some damn good non-game creations have been made with the tool.

This is a mix of productive but fun "apps" including games. Game Maker does the job here, and if it was in C or in GML the end product wouldn't differ enough at this stage for me to want to learn a whole new language.

You have really admitted in that post that you don't care about the program, you just have bias towards Game Maker. Just because you don't like the language used to develop it doesn't mean it "sucks".

People who want to debate the tools used in the creation of the program probably aren't going to fit into the audience AfterBlock is aimed at. My choice of coding language does not effect the end user anyhow.

[CoolSwain]

Wow.

I tried to download this but it wouldnt let me since I live in America.

Stop holding grudges like a woman IcyGamma.

[Sheath]

I tried to download this but it wouldnt let me since I live in America.

Keep your crude jokes in the drama forum please (also, whats with the Ike sig and combo... alt?).

[Kilser]

Keep your crude jokes in the drama forum please (also, whats with the Ike sig and combo... alt?).

PLAZ
Oh and, you gonna write an article in the Your "Block-land Bulliton" sometime?
I want to read something thing!

What a richard, did you know he hates America?

Wow.

I tried to download this but it wouldnt let me since I live in Whore land.

Stop holding grudges like a woman IcyGamma.

You stop stuff posting about the stuff that belongs in his drama. Iv already had enouf of you and I have seen you for about, Mmmmm. 1 day now?
19 posts too. Big surprise.

[CoolSwain]

Keep your crude jokes in the drama forum please (also, whats with the Ike sig and combo... alt?).

I'm just slappin' you on the 'ol knee Sheath, no harm done. Love the interface.

[Kilser]

I'm just slappin' you on the 'ol knee Sheath, no harm done. Love the interface.

I'm just sayin your are a poop complete idiot.

[Wesley Williams]

Beautiful job Icy :) You have now officially been added to the lost of the greatest Blockland benefactors.

Stop holding grudges like a woman

I take that very offensively.

[Tom]

My choice of coding language does not effect the end user anyhow.

No, it effects them a lot. It uses up a lot more resources than a simple GUI program should use. It literally uses up 8x as much memory as Steam, and it even has a fancier GUI.

[Sheath]

It uses up a lot more resources than a simple GUI program should use.

This is not a simple GUI program.

I have already expressed my concern in its memory usage, but even so my Eee PC 701 netbook can run it fine, so I'm sure a full blown laptop won't find it too hard. ;)

[Tom]

This is not a simple GUI program.

Well if you want to say that, it still uses 8x as much memory as Steam, which has just as much eye candy.

[Sheath]

Well if you want to say that, it still uses 8x as much memory as Steam, which has just as much eye candy.

Indeed it isn't the most memory efficient, but AfterBlock has only just been released and these are early days still. Comparing it to a program thats been developed by many programmers over many years (which doesn't even do the same job as AfterBlock) is pretty deluded.