The state of Game Maker development

      Does anyone know if this program will be updated to display properly on Vista or Windows 7.

I don't know about Win7, but GameMaker 7 already supports Vista.

Isn't Muiltimedia Fusion the way to go nowadays?

I'm in college for a game and simulation degree, and they want me to use Game Maker but on Vista and Windows 7 it does not display the tabs.

What version of it are you using? Have you tried GM7? Vista should work perfectly fine with that one, like Garoth Moulinoski said.

yeah, Game Maker 7 worked fine for me on Windows 7 Beta back in the spring time. It did have a weird thing where when you were importing media it took longer than it needed to but it was fully functional.

Also there is a Game Maker 8 alpha/beta build out there, it was released in july of this year, you could try it.

When Game Maker 8 comes out it is supposed to be considered a "commercial game developement tool" although it doesn't seem like they are changing that much. I have XNA for free via my college anyways so whatever

When Game Maker 8 comes out it is supposed to be considered a "commercial game developement tool"

I think it was already considered that. I remember reading in the help file for GM6 that you can use it to create games to sell.

Not that I know of anyone who actually has done it. >_>

I have XNA for free via my college anyways so whatever

Ehm... XNA is free for everyone unless you want to debug and release stuff on the 360.

Thank you all, and have a good Thanksgiving.