Yeah haha. I still use the IDE heavily, cause the work I do requires me to be in the IDE often. On lower end machines I’ll use vscode or GMEdit if I can get away with it.

Theres a community guide online that also covers other aspects. (Distrobox will require file and zenity (for gui) as another dependency) www.gamemakerkitchen.com/tutorials/ga...

I need to go back and refactor this with other distrobox instructions.

Perhaps you might be experiencing issues due to the distro or missing steps… Despite what the requirements are for GameMaker, some aspects do require some additional dependencies as well. Personally, I’d recommend digging into distrobox and getting GameMaker installed under a Ubuntu image instead.

Yeah that is a bit of a problem once you’ve got a low enough resolution monitor. It’s just fucked haha.

These days we have options at least, if not GM, other IDEs!

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i made a game with @mashmerlow.art and @nin2ds.art where the world is dying, but the market is booming. make sure to pay your bills until the end of the world arrives

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I could believe that. There’s some things that can be done to massively optimise the IDE performance on weaker devices, but I can’t imagine how a laptop from 2014 would fair even with those. 🤔

By my estimate, it should be good enough to do some GameMaker work on it without too many issues. Judging purely based on my 8gb M1 Mac Mini, and how the MacBook Neo is about on par in terms of performance.

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Following the GameMaker Awards 2025 we are delighted to share a GameMaker Steam showcase and sale 🎉
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Thanks for all the support
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Wow alive

I forgot to mention, but I have an update. The artist saw it, and proceeded to crept around the source code to add themselves as a character in the VN dev demo. They don’t know GameMaker.

Such an easy engine, I swear!

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I cannot answer that. But what I can say is, maybe I'll leave in a dragon somewhere.

They are both very new to the world of games development and programming. So naturally a lot of it is spooky! And as I’m working on new features, I needed a good test case.

So it comes as two benefits! :)

🙌

Did I just really spend the past 3 hours making a multi-chapter live demonstration of how this visual novel engine works, that I've built in GameMaker, just so the writers know how it works?

Yes, yes I did.

Devastating, my heart goes out to Sandy's family. I am ever grateful for where we have gotten today. Rest in peace.

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There's a sweet $5k for the best GameMaker game 👀

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Thanks for stoppping by y'all :3 <3

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Very nice! Does get easier over time! Hope to see your game progress well!

For some reason some of you guys wanted to see my debugging map,
it's a mini recreation of gm_construct, very scuffed looking, but yk, I use it for debugging lol.
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Very sick

The heat today is making me melt.. Cold weather come back!

Good start! I saw in your reply you’ve been using GameMaker, how long? 😮

Everyone cheers for Christmas, but you know what people miss out on Christmas Eve? Discounts on Christmas wrapping paper, get them for next Christmas!

No I did not win, but that is okay! Life isn't always about winning everything. I am happy to just be apart of this! 🙂