🔵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

Editor User Interface

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 (previously Avatar related Global Parameters)

• Gameplay - Start screen, 🆕 Game Rules, Camera, Ambiance

• 🆕 Debug - collisions and render bounds and Rules Logger

Top Bar

Menu Bar

Asset Library 2.0

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

Asset Library

⚙️ 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

⬆️ 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

Collectable Component [SP] [MP] - Message on Equip parameter

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

Pickable Component [SP] [MP] - Message on Drop parameter

Specify a message to send when a Pickable object is dropped

Health Component [MP] Port

Multiplayer games now allow avatar and object Health components (Combat to come at a later time)

NFT Image Display Component [MP] V2

Supports any NFT in the Ethereum, Polygon or Goerli networks

Door Behaviour [MP]

It is now possible to open and close a door asset with separate messages

Visual FX Behaviour [MP] [SP]

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.

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

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

Quick Start: Presets

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:

Collect Points

Time Trial

Point Race

Combo

Hunger

Poison

Shop

More presets will be added in the future!

🏃‍♂️ Avatar Equipment & Mechanics

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

Allow Equipment

Select Equipment

Decide if players can use equipment they own in your Experience.

• 🆕Equipment toggle allows players to start with equipment NFTs in their wallet.

Player Settings

Avatar Mechanics

Avatar Mechanics

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

Player Settings

Avatar Mechanics

Oxygen

Oxygen Remaining

Fall Damage

🧰 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

Replace Asset

🆕 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

Shortcut Groups

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

Debug Tools

Debug

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

Debug Settings

🗂️ 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.