Questions tagged [game-maker-legacy]

Older Game Maker versions (<= 8), not Studio.

For Game Maker: Studio 1.x use the tag Game Maker: Studio 1.4

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Game Maker 7 GML array length

I am working in Game Maker 7 using GML in order to create a Main Menu for my game. I have looked for a while now trying to find out what the code is to use the length of an array however I cannot find it. What I have so far is: var move = 0; move -=…
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Winapi How do I draw a rectangle to a specific Window handle?

I'm Using a Wrapper Library in GMS2 That was made back in GM6 Days (gamemaker) Someone was able to wrap majority of the win32API to use in GM6-8. There is only 1 odd instance in where the WinAPI system seems to mess up when drawing the controls to…
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Gamemaker Game EXE file won't load (game made 11years ago)

So I made a few gamemaker games about 11 years ago and tried to run the exe file. When I run the exe file, nothing really happens just an error box pops up saying you can find out more here. And it points to 3 .tmp files located in the Temp folder…
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WS_EX_LAYERED window chroma key (LWA_COLORKEY) doesn't work in Windows 7 with Aero Glass enabled

I'm trying to make a DirectX8 application (Game Maker) chroma keyed using layered windows (WS_EX_LAYERED extended style flags, and LWA_COLORKEY method) for transparency and correct hit testing on a borderless window. However, out of all platforms…
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Game Maker not recognizing variable

Attempting to set up a targeting array for a MMO-style game in GameMaker8 Pro, I have this code in the create event for the player's character, which is and has been running perfectly fine: j = 0 i = 0 g = 0 for (i=100000; i<1000000; i+=1) if…
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Game Maker Studio Score, My Score resets when going to the next room

I'm having a problem regarding the scores in my game, My game is about answering questions using jumbled letters and when the player gets one correct answer, the game should add +1 to the game score and move to the next level (which is in the next…