game maker 1.4

I'm trying to improve spaceship renaming for my game, I'm using this code to rename in the Press <any key> event: The problem is that strange things happen when I press Tab, Caps Lock, Ctrl, etc. How can I prevent non-symbol keys from ruining the name? I used to have a script that would...

so i'm making a 2d platform game and i want to use some conveyor belts but i kind of can't figure out how do to it. i looked around and everyone's solutions either make my player just stand there or only move right. so anyways hoping i can get an answer because i want the conveyor belts to move...

when i export googleplay ( https://marketplace.yoyogames.com/assets/2008/google-play-services ) I see this error compile failed - please check the compile window for any additional infor I import it and deleted it and I get that error, I just want to advertise my game :c it does not let me...

Hi guys I have a problem with scaling, in some specific Android phones, it shows the screen like this. The big one is the scaled version, while the smaller one is the original size. I can't figure out the reason for that. You can see the attached image of error. Thank you in advance.

Hello everyone here is a mini game that I created in 24 hours. I will need your feedbacks. The game has a two players mode and a player mode. When you play alone, you have to do the most back and forth before the time out. When you play with someone, whoever makes the most points wins. For...

I think i am going to see if there is some built - in alternatives that GM:S 1.4 has.

I am currently attempting to figure out how to get the font "Pomeranian" which supports both English and Japanese keyboards to work in game maker (Game Maker Studio 1.4) But it would seem that every time i select it in game maker (it is a open type with a true type lay out) it is read as a...

Help Willy get his barrel to his side across the room by building a bridge using crates in a Tetris-like manner. There are currently 20 unique levels. Each one with a collectible coin to provide an extra challenge. The game is available on itch.io for whatever price you believe it's worth. It's...

Hey I just wanted to know if anyone knows how or where I can get a license key for game maker 1.4 ?

My goal is to draw a 3D cube made out of primitives, for each face, and have the perspective of the cube to be off centered to look toward the top left corner a bit. The one problem is that I want the front face to be perfectly 1 to 1; That means that it should look as if you were to draw the...

Hello, does anyone know a simple way to allow the player to wait their turn? Let me explain. There are two players, Player 1 and Player 2. Each player has a maximum of 5 steps. After the 5 steps of a player falls to zero, he can not move. He leaves his turn to the other player. Would anyone have...

Are you missing a tip of pizza? Want to know who will have the latest tip !? So you decide to play Roche Paper Scissors !? But you only make bad games! Well, I have the solution! Come play Tap Tap Fire to find out who will have the latest pizza. In this game, like the Rock Paper Scissors, you...

I'm trying to programmatically place a series of buttons on the screen. The amount of buttons depends on the number of keys in a given section of an included ini file. What should happen, is that the code loops through a number of times defined by the max number of buttons, checking to see for...

I am attempting to make a system whereby my enemy turns 90 degrees in the direction that there is no block to collide with. The code: if place_meeting(x+lengthdir_x(turnradius,direction),y+lengthdir_y(turnradius,direction),obj_block) { direction += 90; if...

I am trying to make a main menu using an array in Game Maker, and am using the following code to initialize it in the "Create" event. For the life of me I cannot figure out why it isn't working. I am getting the error: Error at line 1 pos 5: Assignment operator expected. So apparently the...

I was looking for the most up do date librarys and I found, that the Android support librarys are no longer avalible to download past a certain version. They are now only avalible on maven.google.com and not for download. This may be fine for developers in android studio or eclipse, but game...

Usually I use the mouse wheel to change the scale of the room editor and it works just fine. The magnifying glass icons with the +,- and = signs are supposed to work for that too right? I wanted to set the ratio back to 100% so I pressed the one with the = and it crashed. When I reloaded, I...

hey is there a function or something that basically says hey this is actually a mouse press. I'm trying to make a controllers gp_face1 button to act like when I click it actually acts like a mouse click. is this possible? or a function that lets me change the mouse position to equal that of an...

So I'm trying to make my object move according to where the left stick of my controller is pointing I copied this code from another object I'm using that seemed to work just fine with this code however this object doesn't here is the code: var haxis = gamepad_axis_value(global.gamepad...

I got this little piece of code in my game and when it "activates" it freezes my game heres the code dash_right_now = false//dashing as we speak if (keyboard_check_pressed(ord("X"))) { if (!place_meeting(x,y,obj_solid)) { dash_right_now = true while...