Copied from Al Staffieri Jr.'s archived website:



> The Mac Game Creator Toolkit CD-ROM contains just about everything a
> gamer may need to create his OWN game. Stop dreaming and try
> creating! The gamer will gain access to game creating tutorials,
> utilities, sample games made with a few of the game creation
> programs, and demo/trial versions of commercial programming
> languages all on one CD. The CD includes special registered versions
> of several Mac game creating programs including:
>
>   * GameMaker by Al Staffieri Jr.
>   * StoryMaker by James Burton/StrangeGames
>   * AdventureCreator by Autumn Software
>   * Adventure Simulator by Scott Henderson
>   * iBuild Lite by Acrux Software
>

>
> It also includes various game creating tutorials, utilities, sample
> games made with a few of the game creation programs, and demo/trial
> versions of commercial programming languages such as FutureBASIC by
> Staz Software and REALbasic by REAL Software. It also includes web
> links to many Mac programming and game creating web pages and
> resources.
>
> [See what the CD art looks like!][1]

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The quoted website originally had it's own domain (starting around
July 23, 2001):

<https://web.archive.org/web/20010723230321/http://www.macgamecreator.com/>

And it lasted until about June 22, 2003:

<https://web.archive.org/web/20030622071045/http://www.macgamecreator.com/>

Then, Al moved the website to his personal AOL site:

[https://web.archive.org/web/20071223090922/http://members.aol.com/AlStaf...][2]

However, this website was never captured again after December 23,
2007.

Not only that, but his main website disappeared in 2022 and the domain
was apparently bought out by some kind of online gambling racket.

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My goal, at this point, is to obtain both a disk-image copy, either
from Al or some game-developer who purchased and hoarded the CD-ROM,
and permission to post (from Al, if he's still alive and kicking).

Indirect permissions will be a bit trickerier because the CD-ROM is a
compilation of several individual and commercial products. However,
most (if not all) of the original contributors are no longer in
business and the relative age of these late-classic-Mac software
products more or less relegates them to some kind of abandonware
status. In fact, many of them are already individually posted on MG.
(See the list below.)

Given that this CD-ROM is homemade, there could be countless different
versions, if the disk image kept being revised.

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### Therefore, if anyone knows Al or knows someone who has a copy of
the CD-ROM, then please get your hands on a (physical or digital) copy
and upload the disk image! (And please follow the pirate's code--I
mean the MG guidelines\--for encoding and compressing files.)

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Here's an incomplete list of all of the Macintosh Garden web pages
with software that's similar to what would've been included on this
CD-ROM:
![Star][3]
Game creators

 * [GameMaker][4]
 * [SilverCreator][5]
 * [Hephaestus][6]
 * [StoryMaker][7]
 * [Adventure Creator][8]
 * [Adventure Simulator][9]
 * [iBuild Lite][10]

![Star][3]
Tutorials for Adventure Creator

 * that were written by [Ray Dunakin][11]

![Star][3]
Several free games

 * [created with GameMaker][12]
 * [one created with Adventure Creator][13]

![Quest][14]
Utilities, such as

 * a Sound recording program [I will create an MG page for this
   utility app]
 * a [Sound Mover][15] program
 * PICT compression program to compress PICTs in GameMaker games
 * GameMaker addons such as GMOnline which lets you make 2 player
   internet games
 * GM Toolkit which has a script checker and a customizable graphics
   compressor and more
 * [I will create MG pages for all of these GameMaker utility apps]

![Arrow][16]
>HTML file containing [a list of web page links to][17]

 * various Mac game-making web sites
 * programming languages
 * programming help
 * other game-creating resources

![Star][3]
Trial versions of commercial Mac programming languages, such as

 * Staz Software's [FutureBASIC][18]
 * REAL Software's [REALbasic][19]
 * A new BASIC type of language called [METAL BASIC][20] made by
   Galactic Dreams Software

![Quest][14]
Various game engines to go along with our REALbasic 30 day trial,
including

 * Grandeur RPG Game Engine - includes v1.0 application and files
   plus complete RB source code
 * RPG game making class for RB created by Split Software
 * RB Opensource, unfinished game creating program by Daniel Howard
   named GameCreator
 * [Coldstone][21] RPG Game Engine

![Tired][22]

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Compatibility
Architecture: PPC (Carbonized) x86 (Intel:Mac)

This is all late-90s and early-2000s PPC carbon and OS X fare.

  [1]: http://members.aol.com/AlStaff/picts/gccd.jpg
  [2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20071223090922/http://members.aol.com/AlStaff/macgamecreator.html#adventurecreator (https://web.archive.org/web/20071223090922/http://members.aol.com/AlStaff/macgamecreator.html#adventurecreator)
  [3]: http://macintoshgarden.org/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Roving/star.png (Star)
  [4]: https://macintoshgarden.org/games/gamemaker
  [5]: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/silvercreator
  [6]: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hephaestus
  [7]: https://macintoshgarden.org/games/storymaker
  [8]: https://macintoshgarden.org/games/adventure-creator
  [9]: https://macintoshgarden.org/games/adventure-simulator
  [10]: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/ibuild-lite
  [11]: https://macintoshgarden.org/author/ray-dunakin
  [12]: https://macintoshgarden.org/engine/gamemaker
  [13]: https://macintoshgarden.org/games/twisted-deluxe
  [14]: http://macintoshgarden.org/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Roving/quest.png (Quest)
  [15]: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/sound-mover
  [16]: http://macintoshgarden.org/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Roving/arrow.png (Arrow)
  [17]: http://web.archive.org/web/20110929190551/http://alstaffieri.com/gmaddons.html
  [18]: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/futurebasic-3
  [19]: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/realbasic-1x-2x-3x-4x-5x
  [20]: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/metal-173
  [21]: https://macintoshgarden.org/games/coldstone-game-engine
  [22]: http://macintoshgarden.org/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Roving/tired.png (Tired)

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