Greetings, mortals.

Trust me, Game Maker is amazing. In fact, I'm making a Pokemon game right now, and it's already better than anything I've found on the website (other than this one game I found called Pokemon Twilight, but mine has the regular 649 Pokemon- PT has 150 original Pokemon, but there are very few of them actually in the game.)
Anyways, it's almost in the bug testing stage- I just need to program in the base special attack/defense and speed for each Pokemon. I've been working on it for a few weeks- I'm gonna go post about it in the Pokemon Discussion forum, actually.

I'm learning[or attempting to] VB6 language, so I can build my own custom game. I'm not building it around Pokemon, as Nintendo and Game Freaks generally shuts down such things, and there's no way to legally make money off it. I wouldn't want my game to bite the dust just because I was stupid, using something that someone else owned the rights to.

Yeah, but they only shut down things that get really, wildly popular. I can't really imagine mine getting too popular; I'd have to be EXTREMELY lucky for that to happen, so I assume I'll be safe :3.

think of pokemon vortex, they are darn famous but arent shut down as of yet.

Yea and those ROM hackers who make Pokemon Chaos Black, Naranja, Omega and Crystal Shards. You know what I mean. They actually use the base system of an already licenced game and mod it. Yet theyre legal and not shut down, and theyre being illegally sold in many countries by random guys who arent the hackers themselves, people only get the guys who make money from it.

I would make so many new hack games if only I had the tools needed to hack on a Mac.

Yea cheap, child made hacking tools never run on Macs. Only proffessional programs do. Thats why I use Windows cos I dont like paying.

Vdex is popular too, but as all the money goes to running the site, not profit for the owner, it's legal. Non-profit=legal.