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Seriously. Only things I know it's not capable of are shaders (but maybe with extensions who knows). Gm is capable of 3d but not that well.
Some stuff might be harder(or more tedious) in GM than traditional coding. Also collisions are not that efficient as they could (for anything more cpu intensive projects do not use pixelperfect collisions if you don't have to)

Also the room editor (at least in version does not have zoom. So at low resolutions level editing might be annoying.

And of course your Java experience is great. And if something seems to impossible, there usually is a workaround for that.
For example fullscreen screen deformations and motion blurs are possible if you know what you're doing.

Game Maker can do anything. It's magic. Game maker is pretty good tool if you don't need top performance or shaders. And if screen tearing problems don't bother you.

Nah. I meant it like this  
I'm always happy when expensive stuff goes free

I live in germany. This topic is pointless for me

i live in austria and its fucking freezing here.

I didn't know there are so many of us here.

Oh, and yeah. I try to avoid going outside when the temperature is -10c. I assume the author lives in the southern hemisphere.

But but -10c is not even cold. I'm really often outside even when it's -30c. Meh.

because Daz3D recently made Studio ( plus Hexagon and Bryce ) available for free.

Well the boss shouldn't be easier than the rest of the level.

Dragrang. Drags enemies closer.
Uppercut rang. Launches enemies in air.
And maybe ability to do single melee attacks to extend combos. Like 3x boomerang, drag, melee attack, UC rang, jump and ride the Rang through enemy, jump, downwards smashrang.

I'd also avoid having to aim with mouse. Just have different moves going to different directions and doing stuff differently. For example mouse controls wouldn't allow co-op. Using player momentum could allow fine tuning shots.

Or die once, recover your souls, make the same mistake again and die once again, repeat, ???, PROFIT.

Epic pic is epic.

Everyone cheer the pixel-police is here!


Gotta get away before it catches me for illegal use of that picture
 
Time for a ninja exit

Modding (we can make our own crazy stufg)
Multiplayer (for crazy coop/vs action)
Smart NPCs (to make the wooorld craaazyyyly more interesting)

I just could not resist sending these. (without permission of course!) All these are by Xion.

Might want to drop the lighting then to make it more faithful and so you have the same frustrations with visual separation as anyone working with 4 colours
Would like to see more of this.

granting wishes  

not much going on here, don't know where to take this

Please make a game using these visuals. And for some odd reason that pic reminds me of MGS.

Yeah eclipse is great. Also netbeans has C++ support.

Discuss.

How on earth did you miss this thread http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=24151.0

It's almost on top of this same section.

Some autotiling with Zelda I sprites.

The progression in the game will not be set levels like in mario but more like a Metroid style exploration where there are areas in the world and you can choose where and when to go to them. But as you play you gain items/skills that allow you better to traverse certain areas. An example would be there is a elemental enemy that if you try and attack with the current weapons you have will just power the enemy so you have to find a new weapon in one of the areas that you have already explored so you can take down those enemies.

There's a better word for that: Metroidvania.
And also that Dark Souls pretty much matches your game description. (just noticing)

[Pikmin + Metal Gear Solid]

Pikmin + Metal Gear Solid
You can send members of your little pikmin squad to distract or take out guards, make noise, pull levers or anything. Pikmins come in several camo-colors and types.