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Packages

 * Game-Maker 1.0: Includes one 1.44 MB microfloppy disk containing the full set of RSD tools plus the games Sample, Terrain, Houses, Animation, Pipemare, Nebula, and Penguin Pete. Also included, beginning in version 1.04, is a separate diskette containing the GameLynk game Barracuda: Secret Mission 1. All 1.X iterations of Game-Maker include a 75-page user manual and several leaflets about the use of the software. Later versions (1.04, 1.05) also include leaflets explaining recent changes and updating the user manual.
 * Version 1.02 (1992) adds "Glide" gravity settings.
 * Version 1.04 (November 1992) adds "high level editing tools" and fixes collision issues with two-block-tall character sprites.
 * Version 1.05 (February, 1993) adds music and monster death sounds; improves the engine, interface, error messages; and tweaks, develops, or improves several character properties.
 * Game-Maker 2.0 (August 20, 1993) brings digitized sounds, many engine improvements, and a complete overhaul of the design interface. Scrolling is improved; sprite flicker is eliminated; characters gain glide and acceleration properties; and XFERPLAY gains a configuration menu. The package includes both 1.2 MB floppy and 1.44 MB microfloppy disks containing the full set of RSD tools plus the games Tutor (a replacement for Animation), Sample, Terrain, Houses, Pipemare, Nebula, and Penguin Pete. Both versions 2.0 and 2.02 include a 94-page user manual and several leaflets about the use of the software. The latter version also includes a leaflet explaining recent changes and updating the user manual.
 * Game-Maker 3.0 (1994): A three-microfloppy (1.44 MB) package contains the full set of RSD tools, the in-house developed games Tutor, Sample, and Nebula, and three licensed games developed by the independent designer A-J games: Zark, The Patchwork Heart, and Peach the Lobster. A CD-ROM package includes the contents of the floppy package, plus first-party games Pipemare, Penguin Pete, Houses, and Terrain; A-J Games productions Glubada Pond, Crullo: Adventures of a Donut, Cireneg's Rings, and Linear Volume; two games by Sheldon Chase of KD Software, Woman Warrior and the Outer Limits and Woman Warrior and the Attack from Below; and the GameLynk game Barracuda: Secret Mission 1. In addition, the CD-ROM includes a large collection of images, sounds, music, animations, and gameware elements, and a Shareware directory holding demo versions of fourteen games by various independent designers. Both packages of version 3.0 include a 104-page user manual and several leaflets about the use of the software.
 * Create Your Own Games With GameMaker!: In 1995, the Canadian company Microforum rebranded and repackaged the CD-ROM version of Game-Maker 3.0 for release to a worldwide market. The contents are the same as the original RSD release.