Topic: Game Development Issues / Two Issues

#1: Is it possible to make a game simply link to music so when you hit "Play",
it will play with music it finds stored on your computer? Not included in the
Game File.
That isn't the big issue though, the main question is...
#2: You have an object that follows the mouse, how could I make it so that it
'A' - Gets slower the closer to the mouse it is and 'B' - How can I make it stop
and stay at the angle it last was in when it reaches the mouse. Currently have
the object spinning and shuddering out of control when it touches the mouse.
Any help?

Topic: Game Development Issues / Move_Contact equivilant

So the rule now is that you shouldn't use move_contact(distance,12). So
what should I use instead? And yes, thats it. Thats the question.

Topic: General Chat / what makes site popular. let's say you have no ads

Well, first make sure it's on google, yahoo, bing, etc
Update it constantly, even if it's just little things
Have an online presence (twitter, facebook, yyg)
Put it in your signature
Actually have things people want
have lots of media (videos, music, free trials etc)
ping your site now and again
stop spamming people

Topic: General Chat / Vending Machine Forum Game.

Quoteout comes over 9000 memes
in goes soviet russia
Out comes Russians
In goes me realizing MT is now a mod

Topic: General Chat / GMS Radio, download?

That's because I was busy.. Don't worry. It'll be announced on Game Maker
Gazette when it is uploaded and ready for listening. :)

Topic: General Chat / GMS Competition 01 - RTS ($200 1st place, $100 2nd place, $50 3rd place)

Yeah...

Topic: Game Development Issues / GM8 RC Compatibility

Well, you can still add alpha values know, but it's a lot of work. You could
already start coding it though, and have the game look ugly but get the engine
done and adding the sprites with alpha when gm8 comes out.

Topic: Game Development Issues / GM8 RC Compatibility

damn, i started a game in GM7 aaaaaaggggggggggeeeeeeeeesss ago, and accidently
opened and saved it in the second GM8 beta...
I didn't know about the back up files much then, so i might be a bit stuffed.

Topic: Game Development Issues / Change Colors While Underwater

image_blend Blending color used when drawing the sprite. A value of c_white is
the default. When you specify a different value the image is blended with this
color. This can be used to colorize the sprite on the fly. This variable can
only be set in the Pro Edition!
Not sure how the exact code would look like, but the above should help you with
it. When you only need to draw the top half purple you will need to draw a
square with ... blend from the top of the water to the bottom of the player to
get the desired effect.

Topic: Game Development Issues / Need a rainmaker... sort of..

That is kinda inefficient, making a rain effect by creating an object for every
raindrop would take about 50/500(depending on how big the raindrops would be)
objects. The built in particle effects are way better for this. If you don't
have pro, you could also make a sprite that fills the view with raindrops, and
just repeat that. This would make the game load a bit longer as with the above
method, but it's a lot less heavy on the cpu.

Topic: Suggestion Box / Animation menu for backgrounds!

I mean, honestly, I don't want to have to develop a unique background animator
for every game I make; do you?

Topic: Game Development Issues / x1 problem (Sloved)

yay Im included!

Topic: General Chat / The Pwnage Game

I paint all over ur imagez.

Topic: Game Development Issues / x1 problem (Sloved)

YES.....Finally got it, thanks to the great suggestions....thank you all.
To solve this I actually used both DeathZero02’s and Jacob the Snacob’s idea’s.
The problem was one of the 23 walls was missing a (1) after the x in its CREATE
EVENT and by having this wall as the “child” of the “parent” wall it was
creating a loop and blaming the parent for the unknown var.
And so using Jacob’s idea of drawing the walls individually, I did this as I
checked each code with a fine comb like DeathZero02 said and managed to weed out
that problem......Thanks again for your ideas.....(including you Martho) .

Topic: General Chat / The Pwnage Game

Topic: General Chat / Does anyone else use an Xbox controller on their PC?

Yes, it's not a bad idea at all.

Topic: General Chat / A game's difficulty

2 ways: Multiple difficulties and start off easy and increase the difficulty as
you play, starting off a game too hard isn't always the best idea.

Topic: Game Development Issues / how do you make a character fly/glide??

have you made the platform engine already?

Topic: General Chat / Taco bell

my favorite fast food place is dicks. most of you have probly never been there
cuz its only in Seattle(except for a couple copy cats that have not been sued
for an unknown reason) Im not in Seattle much but when Im there I stock up on
deluxes(the best hamburger at dicks)

Topic: Game Development Issues / 4th dimension in GM

...let me see if I can explain. Because we are in a 3d space with the 4th
dimension being time. Now if we were in a 2d space you are saying that time
would still be the 4th dimension? completely skipping the 3rd? Well that would
be wrong. You see whatever dimension you live in the next one up would be time
(geometrically). So it makes no sense for a 2d game to have such an effect.
Let me see if I can explain later.
LATER:
ok I don't mean to come off as a condescending jerk, I am just trying to point
out that this isn't the same as making a game in 4d. Its a great idea but when
you call it 4d it just makes me mad because I have been working for 2 years
(since I joined yoyogames) on making some kind of 4d game. And I think I have a
pretty good idea. But if you go and make this idea and call it 4th dimension
then... well I might look like i am just trying to contradict you.

Topic: General Chat / Mafia: Day one! (Originally Mafia Signups)

The Way i see things
MY: Looking mighty suspicious. Pretty much admitted it right there. (i would
like to see recnepz confirm it though)
Guy: Seems to be legit. I don't think even the mafia would rat out one of their
own but i may be wrong
Mokushi: Slightly suspicious of him but not enough to vote for him
Everyone Else: No one else has posted, which either shows laziness or guilt

Topic: General Chat / Taco bell

QuoteMt at work

That ones wrong. I have my ban button mapped to F2

Topic: General Chat / Scrabble Slam! (Forum Game)

Tail

Topic: General Chat / Vending Machine Forum Game.

out comes over 9000 memes
in goes soviet russia

Topic: General Chat / what makes site popular. let's say you have no ads

Sup Keysle lol...yep...we're still waitin on updates =P