The Power of MMF2?

[Arashimaru]

Hello Clickteam community.

I've been using Clickteam products for quite some time now, specifically The Games Factory (I). I purchased Multimedia Fusion 2 around late December, and have been curious about something.

TGF was made in 1996, and its power is quite limited. I've experienced severe data loss when creating an application too large in size. That was then, this is now.

I plan to create a game with a large amount of frames. I'm literally talking about 300~400 frames/levels. Do I plan to execute this? Yes. Will it take a long time? Probably a few years.

Am I over my head? No.

I've done some serious planning, and basically know exactly what I need to do.

But let me state the most crucial part of this post.

How much can MMF2 handle? Is a 300~400 frame application possible?

Thank you in advance.

[MetalGeo]

I guess it is. But no doubt will the .exe have a huuuuuge filesize.

[RaiFox]

If there was a limit you could use sub-apps to span the game across multiple files.

[Spike]

You would definately need all your code to be efficient etc, or else it'll cause a lot of looooooong load times...

But meh, you can always split it up into different apps then combine it together as already suggested

[Arashimaru]

That was an idea I had in mind, and it's encouraging that it's now been suggested.

I suppose for the most part I'll just have to work with it, and if any lag starts to occur/data loss, I'll split it up into multiple applications.

Thank you for your responses.

[Francois]

Loading the application under MMF2 editor will be long if your application is huge. But loading in runtime will not be long: the runtime only loads the elements of a given frame. So if your individual frames are of normal size, it will be fast.
MMF2 can handle very well this number of frames. Just remember when you do such a big project, to always do backups (enable the autobackup feature in the preference dialog).

[JoKa]

I love to create everything within the Frame Editor, but for such a massive project, I'd prefer to create a level editor. Editing your game will be much easier with only one frame containing all the code. Imagine you discover a severe coding bug in Level 300. Or a slightly changed function of MMF which needs to be adjusted. Or want to apply some minor changes like speed values of the player or it's enemies. Would you like to edit hundreds of levels?

[Nifflas]

I agree with JoKa. If this is a realistic project, you should really learn to create a level editor using nests of fastloops, the active picture object (for pasting tiles into the level), and the binary extension (to store data). A custom level editor makes the level creation 10 times faster, it makes your game load faster, and you'll only need to use one frame.

[KetchupMaster]

You may not want to make a level editor, depending on what kind of game you are creating. For example if you are creating a game that contains just a bunch of little "mini" games. Then a level editor would probably not be realistic because every level is completely different and requires different coding.