Emphasis on the loosely... It's called "Monolith".

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A long time ago, I tried out Game Maker. Got quite far into a game I was all excited about, then discovered that I had not read the terms very well, and that the free version of the software is severely crippled. Unflustered, I threw it all out and sought out another free game engine. I eventually ended up spending a rather large amount of time learning Blender. Made a pretty cool game with it that - to the best of my knowledge - two people downloaded and only one got working. It doesn't help that Blender has some pretty severe cripplings of its own - especially when it comes to compatibility and distribution.

Then, a little while back this thread tipped me off that Game Maker: Studio was (is?) free for a while. So, I picked it up and promptly realized I was going to have to learn it all over again. This game is mostly me getting the hang of Game Maker again and learning a bit of the code. It's also some practice for a top-down, RPG, bullet-hell shmup I've been thinking of making for some time and that is now in very early development. (Incidentally, I've combined my Blender knowledge with this and starting making rendered 3D sprites for that one. They're awesome!)

The sprites in this game are not awesome! Except for the cats. My wife made those. She also did the ape noises. I did the rest of the sprites, sound effects, the coding and the music, minus the title screen music which is a free-domain recording of Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" that I got from somewhere on the Internet that I can't find anymore. I give whoever they are credit for a great performance.

It's about 11 megs and should run on just about any windows machine. Sorry Apple/Linux users.

Enjoy!

http://wikisend.com/download/612000/MONOLITH_1.0.zip