To sum it up in three words.
Waste.
Of.
Time.
That’s what my game ended up being. All the features, items, and other content I’d tried to add to it seemed to barely function. Of course, I suppose I couldn’t really expect much from something as universal as this Application Maker. Anything designed to do so many jobs and cut so many corners is bound to have tight limits to what it’s capable of producing.
Still, I was hoping at least my game would LOOK like something other than a webpage an infant could have produced.
I tried using some of the features, which seemed to work. Kinda.
This was a bit disheartening, as I was expecting a fairly finished article since I had completed every step thoroughly. I had planned on actually making the game something fun to play with friends over Facebook for a laugh, but the whole theme was just so sparse and nothing like I had hoped to achieve.
I browsed the Admin Tools on my new game to see what options I had available to me. It seemed like there wasn’t really anything other than what I had available to myself before. No real way to change the theme, colours or background... which was a shame as I had designed my icons/title bar to fit in with the colour scheme I had planned in my head.
Alas, it could have turned out fantastically, but then... that would have been MUCH too easy. I mean, if one guy could design a tool which meant nobody else had to know how the web programming worked, nobody would be needed all these developers anymore. Oh wait, we already have things that do just that... Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Word, all do their jobs and are CRAMMED with options and tools to make even the most novice of users capable of producing quality work.
I’m not a novice PC user by any means, not to toot my own horn, mind. But it seems other people had success with certain (generally simpler) applications made using this tool. Maybe I should have set my sights a bit lower.
In the end, I will mark up this fairly epic fail down to a mixture of my own stupid ambitions, and the fact the tool was much too limited for what I had planned to make.
