1. Game Maker 2d
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A downloadable extension for Windows

1. Parents need to know that Super Mario Maker 2 is a game about making games exclusively for the Nintendo Switch. It provides players with tools and tutorials to create, edit, and share their own side-scrolling Super Mario levels, encouraging players to be imaginative while learning the basics of game design.
2. At some time when making your game you will need to use text. Text in games is dealt with by using the string functions (a string is just another way of saying a line of text) and GameMaker Studio 2 has a complete set of functions that permit you to manipulate strings in many ways, including the insertion of one string in another, the copying of strings and the ability to parse strings for the.

Game Maker Improvements GM v0.6.2 Hotfixes Fixed assets not fully loading even though they are seen in the experience, if the user switches to play before, they will be lost and several unwanted behaviours occurs. There is now a very small waiting timer before being able to switch to play. Fixed several issues related to the Asset Rarity Counts.

Quick links:blog post | marketplace page | documentation

GMLive is an extension that introduces livecoding / interactive programming into GameMaker: Studio and GameMaker Studio 2 (including Mac IDE).

That is, it allows to reload chosen scripts or events mid-game when they are changed and saved from the editor - without having to recompile and restart the game.

This allows to save tremendous amounts of time during development, especially for projects and platforms with longer compile time.

The extension works with all modules - you can even have the code update remotely while the game's running in a browser, on a mobile device, or on a console.

It also has some additional features:

• On-demand code compilation/execution
  (akin to execute_string/object_event_add in GM8)

The extension is stable, documented, easy to use, and takes literal minutes to set up (see video).

Purchase

In order to download this extension you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $29.95 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Download demo

Development log

• 1.0.48 - many fixes!
  66 days ago
• 1.0.42[/43] - Various fixes
  Feb 08, 2021
• 1.0.39 - this is another of those 'more 2.3 fixes' updates
  Dec 16, 2020
• 1.0.37 - more small fixes
  Nov 21, 2020

Community

Well this is certainly a surprise. YoYo Games have announced an early Beta for GameMaker Studio 2 version 2.3.4 that brings with it a new IDE for Ubuntu Linux. So you can make GMS games on Ubuntu now.

YoYo are very clear that they're continuing to only support Ubuntu directly, so don't expect it to work or to get support on other distributions. They've also changed the editor to use SDL for all input and audio output, which they say fixes some long standing differences between the editor on different platforms and to 'better support modern input devices and new OSes going forward'. Not only that they're also using FNA3D, the 3D graphics library for FNA, across all platforms for the editor too.

It currently comes with some known issues including:

• The IDE hangs when copying any text 7 times or more (so be very aware of this one, as it may look like 'random crashes').
• You can only build games for Ubuntu (no other platforms).
• The debugger is not working.
• Cleaning your project cache can give errors - therefore you may need to clean your cache manually if you have issues building projects.
• During VM builds the installation directory is being set to /tmp when it should be ~/GameMakerStudio2 like YYC uses.
• Previewing texture pages in Game Options does not open the file explorer.
• No file associations are set by the installer.
• Nor it is possible to set file associations manually later on.
• If you Save/Save As/Export and then idle on the file explorer window, this can cause a redundant/harmless 'Not Responding' popup.

Considering just how popular GameMaker Studio 2 is, this is a big win for Linux overall. Looks like being acquired by Opera Software earlier this year is going well then.

Game Maker 2d

See their announcement, with links to the current changelogs.

Game Maker 2 Tutorial