Dear friends, Dear forum members, Dear AM users,
Today is a great day. A day that I have been looking forward to for many months. Today is the day when I am announcing three major things.
The first announcement is that I am back: I am not just back to write this message, I am back to stay! This means that, after more than one year and a half of no new major versions or activity on Adventure Maker, I am back to develop new versions, I am back to update the website, I am back to reply to your emails, and I am back to provide support on the forums.
When I was away, I rarely had the opportunity to visit the forums, but when I did, I was always very happy to see that most of you have remained active. This really contributed to my decision to keep working on Adventure Maker, and I want to thank all of you for that. Thank you for staying on the forums, thank you for developing new games and plugins, thank you for providing support to the other users, and thank you for your patience in waiting for answers to the emails you sent me. I still have tons of emails waiting in my inbox, but rest assured that I will answer all of them, no matter how long it is going to take.
The second announcement is that I have realized how important it is to make Adventure Maker compatible with Windows Vista, and how sad it would be if you had to abandon your projects because of your customers not being able to run them. Well, today I want to tell you one thing: the next version of Adventure Maker is going to be... vista-compatible! And that's not all: this is going to happen in version 4.3, which means that all the current user of Adventure Maker v4.x (the vast majority of you) will be able to update for... FREE!
The third and last announcement today is a hot one. You won't have to wait years to get the new version of Adventure Maker. Nor will you have to wait months, nor even weeks. In fact, the next version of Adventure Maker (beta1, panoramas not yet compatible) is available... today!!! You can grab it
here, and you can start developing for Windows Vista right now!
I hope this is good news for all of you, at least as much as it is for me.
If you had to remember just one thing from this post, please remember that today Adventure Maker is no longer threatened with extinction. It has recovered, it is alive, and this is just the beginning! So, please stay with me, fasten your seat belts, get ready to create amazing games and to play other people's games, because...
ADVENTURE MAKER IS BACK!
GM-Support
(Giovanni A.)