I am realising how un-advertised Clickteam products are. You have to search for some pretty specific terms to find their website, and that is pretty much the only place you can buy their products from. Clickteam is doing nothing to make MMF and TGF more popular, but they should be. I have quite a few freinds that love computers almost as much as I do, and had no clue anything like MMF existed until I told them. I want to know how all of you people found out about Clickteam, just out of curiosity (and maybe i'll report the results to Clickteam).
I found out about it because my dad was looking for a present for my step-brother, and he stumbled upon KnP (it was better advertised then MMF or TGF). My step-brother didn't really care for it, so he gave it to my brother and I. We loved it, so a year later my dad found out about TGF and MMF; he bought TGF for us, and told us where to download the MMF trial. I looked at clickteam's website, and decided that I didn't need MMF, so I wouldn't waste time on the download. When I got older (around 7), I decided to try MMF. At first it seemed really complicated, but I got used to it soon.
Anyway, enough of my story, now it's time for your stories.
Magazine called PlanetPC or something like that. KnP was on their CD so I shot the bugger up and loved it. I don't actually klik anymore, many ask while I'm still here. The answer is, I don't actually know and I'm one of the many people who ask that question.
When I was like 9 or 10 a friend gave me KnP and asked me to join his group. We used to make a lot of really bad games together in QBASIC back then. I used it for a while, actually made one really epic platformer which despite being KnP and therefore crap was extremely long and had some pretty cool bosses (it was later deleted by an insane relative). Then I forgot about it.
Few years later, when I would've been probably 11 or 12, we'd moved away and I went back to visit him for a week. He gave be TGF then, which I used until another friend showed me MMF in highschool and I bought it myself. I've been waiting for MMF2 for a while.
I think I got KnP with an old PC magazine, from there I found clickteam!
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9th January, 2006 at 00:50:12 -
I bought KNP in about '98 for $21 AU in Myer. I _think_ I may have found out about it from the splash screen at the end of a few games, I'm not sure though.
KNP too. Found the demo of KNP off one of the crappier Maxis games (forgot what). I played the demo, loved the fact that I could make *computer* games without having to figure out annoying BASIC or VB. Got the full product, updated to MMF, and here I am today...
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Same as Broomie - got it in a magazine called PC Planet or Planet PC (forgot which way round the words go) - got KnP free on the CD which was pretty cool. The magazine had a tutorial for making a space invaders type game - even with a tutorial I failed but hey it was my first try at Klik There was also a competition inside to make a game and the best games got put on the CD of the next issue. I never did make it
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9th January, 2006 at 07:49:37 -
From an interactive demo of a game by Maxis (isn't KnP Maxis either?). After that, I went looking for KnP and here I am now.
I found out about KnP when it was featured on Bad Influence (which remains the only decent computery programme apart from Gamesmaster) - they put together a demonstration platform game where you had to collect Nam Rood heads. I then got it for my birthday that year... I must have been 11 or so.
Maxis advertised it and Europress marketed it, I think. But I guess it didn't work too well for Europress as I got the impression that Europeans would rather buy something called "Click and Learn" rather than "Klik & Play" when I bought it .
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