Game Maker 0.9
Updates included in Game Maker 0.9 (Active)
What's New?
Game Maker 0.9 introduces a brand new Creator experience including:
🖥️ A sleek updated user interface to find everything you need faster.
⚙️ New/enhanced behaviours and components to streamline logic and create new gameplays.
🎲 A new Game Rules system to define, track, and relay global gameplay mechanics.
🏃♂️ New avatar mechanics to empower you to enable external equipment and gameplay hazards.
🧰 New productivity tools to customise your creative process by project and debug.
🗂️ New Templates and categorisations to learn Editor features or customise your own Experience.
Other updates - miscellaneous updates and bug fixes
COMPATIBILITY
Experiences created in versions prior to 0.9 that are opened and saved in it can only be edited in 0.9 from that point on.
Experiences created in 0.7 and 0.6 that have been shared to the Gallery will not be playable in Game Maker 0.9.
🖥️ User Experience & User Interface
Game Maker 0.9's new user interface speeds up your workflows, and it's designed to make way for powerful new tools launching now and in the future.
New Game Maker Home User Interface
Our integrated tools are easier to find!
Let's BUILD
🆕 Home - Directly create new Experiences, use Templates, and access The Sandbox ecosystem tools to buy assets, get LAND, and monetise
Workspaces - Manage your Experiences
Templates - Explore many new Templates, with easy find 🆕 categorisation system
Start PLAYING
Explore the Gallery of Experiences shared by the community (previously Drafts Gallery)
Our Editor has a more organised, sleek design!
Menu Bar (previously buttons)
🆕 Access tools to publish, share, and create an Experience Page directly
Find previous Top Bar functions (e.g., save, undo, redo, etc.)
Top Bar (reorganised)
Objectives (previously Rules) - Create Quests for individual player progression
Players (deprecated, global settings now Parameters in Gameplay menu, local settings now applied via Spawn Point & Avatar's Feature)
Gameplay - Start screen, 🆕 Game Rules, Camera, Ambiance
Asset Library 2.0
Finding the right Asset in the Library is easier!
🆕 Categorisation system aligning to our new minting flow (e.g., Blocks, Characters, etc.)
🆕 Filters options by ownership (e.g., Basics, Drafts, Owned, Wishlisted, etc.)
🆕 Filter and Sort by Rarity or name
🆕 Ownership and Rarity information displayed on each Asset's card
⚙️ Behaviours & Components
🆕 Behaviours
🆕 Components
Set up Checkpoints in a Few Clicks
Activate the object as a respawn point after player death
Set Up Teleportation in a Few Clicks
Use a message to instantly teleport to a destination object
Give Timed/Permanent Stat Changes
Increase or decrease player stats within a set range during gameplay: attack power, damage resistance, health, oxygen, speed
Send a Message Based on State
Set an object's status as state A or B (e.g., a door that is open) to send messages, easing the logic system
⬆️ Enhanced Behaviours & Components
🆕 Buff/Debuff System
From any behaviour or component, send any message that is used by the Power Up component with a positive or negative value. NOTE: This replaces using "Heal:X" and "Damage:X messages" where X is a numerical value.
🆕 Behaviour Preview
Play Sound component
Rarity VFX component
Asset Spawner behaviour
Animated Decoration behaviour
Apply a Collectable component to an equipment Asset and this new parameter will appear, allowing you to send a message each time the item is equipped
Specify a message to send when a Pickable object is dropped
Multiplayer games now allow avatar and object Health components (Combat to come at a later time)
Supports any NFT in the Ethereum, Polygon or Goerli networks
It is now possible to open and close a door asset with separate messages
New packs of Visual FX and preview images in the selection window
🎲 New Game Rules System
Visual scripting tool to create custom game mechanics or use Presets to quickly build more compelling custom gameplay mechanics in a few steps.
Explore Game Maker 0.9 templates to test and modify examples of new game mechanics made possible with the Game Rules system.
What's Can Rules Do?
18 Rules make it possible to use and manipulate numbers, text, time, and true/false values:
🔃 Store, modify, and reuse variables for all players or for individual players
⚖️ Compare values
🎲 Generate random numbers
⏱️ Create timers and stopwatches
ℹ️ Display information in the player's , popup windows, and banners
Build Fast with Presets
With one click, add a pre-made Ruleset and customise to communicate with behaviours and components used in your Experience objects:
🏃♂️ Avatar Equipment & Mechanics
New equipment selection and Avatar mechanics add flexibility and depth to your Experiences.
Decide if players who start the game from a certain spawn point can use NFT equipment they own in your Experience.
🆕Override Equipment toggle controls player use of equipment NFTs in their wallet.
Avatar Mechanics
Note: The Player menu (pictured) is deprecated.
Global settings such as swimming, oxygen, and fall damage are now located in Parameters in the Gameplay menu.
Local settings (avatar, equipment, and input settings which varying among players) are now located in Spawn Point & Avatar's Feature.
Enable new gameplay hazards for players.
🆕 Fall Damage toggle allows for damage to player health if falling from high places, with more damage from higher falls
🆕 Oxygen toggle allows for damage to player health if they're underwater for too long, with more oxygen lost from moving faster
🧰 New Tools
Use new quality of life tools to improve your Experience creation workflows and quality.
🆕 Customise how to place, move, and rotate blocks and assets based on your Experience design needs.
This revamps the snap system and enhances the grid system with customisation options.
SNAP TO GROUND button to drop Assets to the surface of solid blocks beneath them
Set grid opacity and scale for easier planning
Set rotation degrees and movement increments and configure to local or global modes
Toggle On/Off snapping to the X, Y, and/or Z planes of the grid you've defined
🆕 Replace temporary placeholder Assets without losing the logic you already applied.
Replace the selected instance of an Asset
Replace all instances of a selected Asset
Move selection between instances of the Asset to find the right one to replace
Quick Access Bar - Groups
🆕 Create ten times the shortcuts in named groups to organise your project.
Create up to 10 shortcut groups of 10 assets, blocks, logic actors, etc.
Rename groups and use keyboard shortcuts to switch quickly between groups
Try our first wave of new tools to debug your own Experiences.
🆕 Display Collision Colliders to avoid weird physics
🆕 Display Render Bounds to avoid inaccurate renderings of assets
🆕 Use the Logger to debug Rules or Rulesets to troubleshoot your global game mechanics
🗂️ NEW Templates
Over 25 new templates have been added with categorisation to find them quickly.
Use these new templates to learn the Game Rules system and other new features of Game Maker 0.9 faster:
Other Updates
Grid system enhancements:
The default opacity for the grid is now 10%
The asset will be previewed perpendicular to the plane the user is placing the asset
Hierarchy panel bug fixes: Scrolling bugs have been addressed.
Recent projects list enhancement: Updated to only display in the home screen when a user has recently opened an experience linked to that account.
"Not owned assets" shader enhancements and bug fixes: The shader has been replaced with a less intrusive one. Now the shader is not displaying when exclusive assets are being used in the experience.
Assets you own appear normally 
Assets you do NOT own have a shader and Buy Asset button Custom avatar selection UI bug fix: The custom avatar disclaimer has been removed.
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