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What about games as episodes?
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account verification using SMS viable?
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Game Design Cost
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Story or Gameplay Mechanics First?
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Low-Res 3D?
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Automatically generated 2D animation?
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Design Different Controller Layouts
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New to Game Maker Studio 2, looking for tutorials and advice
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GMWolf
GML Reusable Data Unit Proposal
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Can you make games like Cuphead or Hollow Knight in GameMaker? (Traditional Art/Animation)
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Converting Games for Different Platforms
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Practical Swf?
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Html5 versus desktop verus android / ios for kids and teens
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message api or extension
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A.I detects the player
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Any tips for my artstyle? (First Game)
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Roalinn
Android setup
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rIKmAN
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The Reverend
Graphics Spine Essential vs. Professional
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The Reverend
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Export and Publish on Windows App Store
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K12gamer
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Creating rewarding combat(platformer)
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Yal
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Using Gamemaker in place of popular languages for GUI programs?
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andev
andev
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What are some good pixel art tilesets and sprites to learn from?
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Electros
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Sprite opinions
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nlolotte
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Odolwa
How Big Should a Platformer Character Sprite Be?
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Would it be legal to ban someone in my paid game so he has to start over?
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Graphics Opinions: RPG Sprites
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Spritesheets for animated characters?
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Graphics Isometric vs 45deg views
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Steam Is it fairly straightforward to publish to Steam with GM?
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MIchael PS
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Game Mechanics Planning/Workflow for a variety of genres & questions re: player states, levelling, inventories!
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GML Pathfinding Alternative
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Sprites
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Design Player is not unique[Discussion]
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UWP Create Executable for Target Compile Error
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Sam (Deleted User)
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World Events?
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Yal
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Yal
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Collaboration questions
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Privacy policies and hosting for Android
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sman
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Looking for publishers (not really, rather a question)
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Ziphold
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Game Files
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Captain
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Graphics Pixel Art: 1 to 1 Resolution or Upscale Sprites
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RizbIT
Does cross promotion mean same as ads?
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FrostyCat
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What they'll do will my Game?
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pixeltroid
at what point do you say "enough" and stop adding in features?
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