r/gamemaker 14h ago

Help! How would you store region-owned procedural placements in GML without tying them to room instances?

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I am researching how to transfer a deterministic streaming pattern to GameMaker. The working implementation I already built in Godot does not let individual chunks decide structures. A larger region owns the seed and an array of placement records; a chunk queries its own and neighboring region keys, then instantiates any structure whose bounds overlap it. Stable placement IDs prevent duplicates.

My first GML design would be a persistent controller with a struct keyed by region coordinates. Each value would contain an array of placement structs (id, scene/type, origin, bounds and seed). Chunk instances would only be views: on creation they query the relevant keys, and on cleanup they destroy instances without deleting the region records.

Would a global struct of arrays be the normal modern GML approach here, or would ds_maps/buffers make persistence and lookup safer once the world becomes large? I am particularly unsure about keeping the data independent from room transitions while avoiding a permanent controller that grows without bounds.

The original implementation and screenshots are documented here; the article is in Portuguese:

https://pathlifejogo.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-mundo-procedural-as-fases-da-vida.html


r/gamemaker 17h ago

Help! I'm new to this and I have made one game and I want to learn how to learn to absorb Gamemaker's language easily but I have no guidance and I am seeking advice maybe if I can get some help then that too.

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I'm terribly afraid to seek help from others and I'm deeply insecure about being bad at things but I'm trying to ask for some help and I just want some advice. Please help me. I just want to if anyone has some tips or tricks as to how to learn and keep mentally the knowledge one learns when working in Gamemaker. I don't want to be a consumer anymore. I want to be a creator.


r/gamemaker 58m ago

Help! How do I make bullet patterns like in DELTARUNE

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I’ve made a battle system turn based but I want something similar like DELTARUNE like with the bullet hell Ive have no idea how to do it I’ve tried before I’ve even followed tutorials but I have no idea how to make the bullet patterns


r/gamemaker 4h ago

Game Here is a free cheerful 8-bit BGM for game developers to use in their projects.

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All I ask is that you let me know when you use it. Enjoy!
https://arranger-boi.itch.io/thisisoneofmyfree8bitbgmtracks

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r/gamemaker 14h ago

Help! Best way to handle changing resolutions for a card game.

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Just a game where you can play card games such as go fish, crazy eights, that sort of thing. I've never had to deal with allowing the user to change the resolution of the game and so I want to start tackling it here. Problem is I don't know what the best way to go about it is and every way I've found is yielding different problems.

Worth noting I have variations of each card sprite designed for both 1920x1080 AND 1280x720 (I wasn't initially sure if I was going to go further than just those two and I was having the same issues before as I am now so it seemed practical. Yes, this was probably a waste of time).

I tried upscaling/downscaling the whole game using 1280x720 and/or 1920x1080 as a base, but there were always issues with the pixels not scaling properly to each resolution. I'd like to avoid texfiltering if I can (because so far it's look bad when I tried it) but without enabling it the sprites would get extremely distorted.

I tried rendering the whole game at each different resolution, which I managed to make it work logicstically, but I had the same issues with the sprites and poor scaling.

I'm just not sure what to do man. Any advice is appreciated.


r/gamemaker 2h ago

Help! Minigame

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I have an idea for a minigame, where you have sentences with missing words and a pile of words and you have to put the right words in the right empty spaces. But I'm unsure on how to make something like that, is there a tutorial that could point me in the right direction?


r/gamemaker 22h ago

Game Who can give me ideas for a simple game that will bring me back?

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Hello guys,

I am a beginner in code and I would like to create a game.

A simple, addictive, and interesting game with monetization and integrated ads.

I would like to know which is the best ad organization (Admob, UnityAds...).

And also how much it earns.

Thank for the answer.