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.

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🖥️ 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.

Login & Home Screen

Login Screen Enhancements

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

Let's BUILD tabs

Start PLAYING

• Explore the Gallery of Experiences shared by the community (previously Drafts Gallery)

Start PLAYING tab

Editor User Interface

Asset Library 2.0

⚙️ Behaviours & Components

New

🆕 Behaviours

Advanced Platform [MP]

Create Complex Platforms & Elevators

Create a linear or circuitous path for an Asset with up to 10 waypoints

🆕 Components

Checkpoint [MP]

Set up Checkpoints in a Few Clicks

Activate the object as a respawn point after player death

Avatar Teleport [MP]

Set Up Teleportation in a Few Clicks

Use a message to instantly teleport to a destination object

Power Up [MP]

Give Timed/Permanent Stat Changes

Increase or decrease player stats within a set range during gameplay: attack power, damage resistance, health, oxygen, speed

Switch [SP] [MP]

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

Volume Trigger [SP] [MP]

Create Location-Based Logic

Detect actors and send messages when they enter or exit a defined volume

NFT Sensor [MP] Give NFT Holders Premium Access

Detect if a player has a specific NFT or an NFT from a collection in their wallet and send a success or failure message

Enhanced

🎲 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.

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 HUD, popup windows, and banners

Game Maker 0.9's new Debug tool includes a Logger to test your Rules.

Quick Start: Presets

🏃‍♂️ Avatar Equipment & Mechanics

New equipment selection and Avatar mechanics add flexibility and depth to your Experiences.

Allow Equipment

Override Player Equipment

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

🧰 New Tools

Use new quality of life tools to improve your Experience creation workflows and quality.

Grid System

Grid System

🆕 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 Asset

Shortcut Groups

Debug Tools

🗂️ 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.