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Game Maker is a cross-platform game creation tool made by YoYo Games mostly used to develop 2D video games.

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Game Maker Studio 2: Why is my variable not being properly changed?

Nevermind Turns out, the problem was with the way I handled generating your selected party and the fact that modifying an object in a room with Creation Code doesn't completely replace the contents o …
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Game Maker Studio 2: Why is my variable not being properly changed?

Ok, so in my game you have a party of four characters that you control one at a time, each of which can lose health and die independently of each other. All of the player character objects use essenti …
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How to make an object with its own sprite draw an additional sprite on top of itself

I'm making character select buttons for a Game Maker Studio 2 game, hoping to do so by just having a single object I can edit on an individual basis to change which character it represents. I also wan …
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Assembling a party of adventurers

Ok, so my little dungeon runner game has its functioning adventurer characters as objects, but unfortunately I'm having trouble figuring how to let the player assemble a party of four of them like I o …
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How to make a boss control multiple object spawners in Game Maker Studio 2

I'm working on a boss fight for a 2D platformer/shooter game in the vein of the Megaman franchise. I expect part of the fight to include this boss causing large boulders to fall from certain points on …
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Does Game Maker Studio 2 have a 'room edge' variable or similar?

I made a sort of "floating camera" for a 2-D platforming game set to follow the player by default but can be made to snap to a stationary point in a room for boss battles and the like, but I've encoun …
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How to make a layered health bar in GML

Nevermind, I already found a crude but effective solution that serves my purposes nicely: draw_sprite_ext(sprite931, 0,0,0,(min(30, global.hp_current)/30),1,0,c_white,1); if(global.hp_max > 30) d …
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How to make a layered health bar in GML

I am currently working on a game in Game Maker Studio 2 where the player character is capable of increasing their maximum health beyond a starting value of 30, by increments of 10. I want to represent …
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