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  1. JesusOnExtasy

    Best way to write Leaderboard

    What is the best way for me to make a LeaderBoard !? How do you like my option? is it possible to fix it?? to make so that sorting was on points?? How can I write this function better!? Who can help ? Create : global.Name = "JasperCrow" ; global.Score = 127; Name[0] = global.Name; Name[1] =...
  2. Wilbo21

    GameMaker Multiple Windows

    Hello community! Hopefully a nice simple one for you :D I want to make a game where there are multiple monitors in use, one displaying the game, and one showing lots of information about the game. I don't want to split the screen but instead I want to have two separate clients open. Is this...
  3. F

    UnderCover Noir: a detective game being developed in GMS2.

    Detective stories are beautiful. The rapture of solving a mystery in and of itself is enough to provide a feeling of excitement for me, let alone a video game. My love for all things in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction inspired me to start working on this project. Hence, I'd like to show...
  4. E

    GameMaker Language-specific bug in asset dedection

    Edit: Changed the post title as we know the problem better now. I haven't worked on my project since last November. Today I have downloaded the newest version of GMS2 and when I try to run my game, I get this error...
  5. F

    Blurry font in Fullscreen - Use a sprite-based font, draw_GUI, or something else?

    My game opens in a 960x540 window. There's an option to switch to full screen. In the windowed mode, the font is pretty crisp but looks a little off to me in full screen. I've read about blurry fonts when scaled up and one suggestion is a sprite-based font. A lot of posts say to move to...
  6. PSIMindcrash

    GML Two speeding spherical objects seem to "pause" right before colliding at times

    Hello! I'm working on a little hobby project, a game involving sliding mice around from a top-down perspective. It's gone well (though I'm sure there's a lot I'm being rather inefficient about), but there is a strange quirk that I haven't been able to figure out from looking through it. The...
  7. S

    Windows Art App Appreciation

    Art Application, Appreciation. Alpha, Pre-Beta by indiana grd (itch.io) Art App Appreciation: A research utility, on Abnormal Psychology. Controls: mouse and keyboard, pressing spacebar resets application, and s to save. Data: each point is initialized as 3, evenly. We then push the data...
  8. JeanSwamp

    GameMaker ShaderGlass for Game Maker

    Hello, Are you guys familiar with Shader Glass by mausimus? (https://mausimus.itch.io/shaderglass) I found out this amazing tool and the results are pretty cool with a lot of options. The problem is that is just an application that captures a screen and applies the shader, so I wonder if...
  9. D

    GameMaker Players getting bigger as they get closer to each other (not a zoom function)

    Hi, first topic from a beginner here - please be gentle! Currently using drag and drop in GMS2.3, but I don't see a way of doing this without getting into code, so looking for a bit of guidance there. So this is the issue: I'm trying to make a single-screen spaceship arena game with four...
  10. KyleRansford

    UWP Question About Subscription Exports

    Hello, if I were to subscribe to the Indie Tier (which currently has UWP), and as long as I was still subscribed (and was on the latest version to support UWP), would I continue to have access to the UWP export after official depreciation, or is going to be removed from exports all together...
  11. Litzilla

    SOLVED Shader error help?, (Platformer tutorial).

    I just started learning programming of any kind and decided to start by trying to follow the Shaun Spalding: Complete Platformer Tutorials since he seems quite knowledgeable and well regarded. But I'm having an issue with the shader step on Part 4. It keeps coming up with this error although I'm...
  12. JesusOnExtasy

    GameMaker ★My Design Login_Screen (Login - Password)★

    Good afternoon everyone. I've got an idea! I want to do this... when entering the login and password in the scoreboard and when the registration button is pressed, the account is checked for presence in the cloud, for example, in the Users folder. If there is no such account, then it was...
  13. JesusOnExtasy

    Windows ★Professional Health Bar★

    Here is my Health Bar code. his health is taken away from right to left. but I also have the opponent's Health bar which is opposite to mine. how to write a code so that the opponent's health is taken away from the left and right in the opposite direction.
  14. Wilbo21

    GameMaker Loading Screens and Memory Allocation Error

    Hello everyone I am trying to create a level editor for my game which allows the user to import their own textures and backgrounds. I believe that what I'm doing is going to require a loading screen to give the PC time to process (potentially) large images. I wanted to get an understanding as...
  15. JesusOnExtasy

    ★Node.js(Server)+(GMS2 Client)+(SQL)★

    who knows how to write a server in Node js for an online game? also use databases. and write all this in GMS2. can anyone give instructions on how to do this? I'm writing my game project about a psychiatric post-apocalypse camp, where you level up your character and kill raid bosses in...
  16. mcube-12139

    SOLVED GMS 2.2.5 crashes when opening

    My Game Maker version is Game Maker Studio 2.2.5.481. I need to use this for some reason. When I open Game Maker it crashes at "Loading Preferences..." and alerts this. Why? What should I do?
  17. M

    Glow effect with depth

    Hi there Im using the simple classic method of adding glow to my game. A dark half transparent surface on top of the screen and then cut out (bm_subtract) parts of it. But my game is depth based (depth = -y). Is there a way of having a depth based glow effect? I mean, if there is an object in...
  18. RiotRebirth

    How do I make "Room_Persistant" work?

    Hey, I've been trying to make it so the room doesn't reset whenever I exit and reenter, but I could never get it to work. I've tried global variables and everything, but Room_Persistant seems the most promising. I've tried putting "Room_Persistant = true" in every object but it would still reset...
  19. RiotRebirth

    How to make "place_meeting" only run when meeting the lower half of a character?

    Hey, I've been looking for an answer for a while, but couldn't find one, so here's what I'm trying to solve. I'm trying to make place_meeting only happen when touching the lower half of a character, here's the code I want to edit. (Version is v2022.1.1.610) (In the "step" event of the...
  20. PocketForge

    GameMaker Troubles with multitouch

    sry for bad eng. Hello everyone, I have an object that I use as a virtual joystick, but I have a problem - it does not work very well with multitouch, is there a way to make it work better? In addition to the movement joystick, I plan to make a shooting joystick as well. I use key emulation for...
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