A website that pretends to be associated with an online ARG (alternate reality game), but is generally spam. These fake websites cause confusion, promote mis-information, and ultimately waste the time of everyone involved.
GameMaker (originally Animo and later Game Maker until 2011) is a series of cross-platform game engines created by Mark Overmars in 1999 and developed by YoYo Games since 2007. The latest iteration is GameMaker Studio 2, first released in 2017.
GameMaker accommodates the creation of cross-platform and multi-genre video games using a custom drag-and-drop visual programming language or a scripting language known as Game Maker Language, which can be used to develop more advanced games that could not be created just by using the drag and drop features. GameMaker was originally designed to allow novice computer programmers to be able to make computer games without much programming knowledge by use of these actions. Recent versions of software also focus on appealing to advanced developers.
A website for listing multiplayer game servers which is nowadays broken, seems to be abandoned since 2019/2020 and it's mostly populated by Romanians who adds 24/7 fake Counter-Strike 1.6 servers or people making accounts only for post in the forums with ChatGPT garbage.
I joined some of those Counter-Strike 1.6 servers listed on Top 1 of GameTracker and now when I press the BUY key it redirects me to a random weird server.
a word of expression to when you give up on comprehending someone's words of ignorance, stupidity, absurdity or are too exhausted to formulate a proper response.
Commonly seen in TikTok comment sections in replies to lazy attempts at humor, overconfidentally incorrect statement, or an over-the-top comment or when someone completely misses the mark on something.
n. software that is no longer sold or supported by the original publisher / developer, often found as free downloads on the internet because it cannot be obtained elsewhere. Not legal, but often seen as morally acceptable because the company that made it is no longer selling the title, nor releasing it as freeware, therefore abandonware is "keeping the game alive", so to speak.
Doom II is not abandonware because id still sells it, while The Incredible Machine is not sold, therefore is abandonware.