Game Maker 8.0 Features

For all of those that are interested, the GameMaker 8.0 Beta is available to ALL who sign up for testing.

http://glog.yoyogames.com/?p=546

Downloading now...

Update: It looks pretty good. Some of the sprite and background functions have changed. The code editor works very well. The new file extensions I haven't tested yet.

Will be checking back to see what others say about the Beta.

This post has been edited by OmegaDestroyer on Jul 3 2009, 07:37 AM

just signed up
downloading now

this is awesome

the new sprite editor is cool, and the code editor is just.. amazing


also, "transparency" is now actual transparency, does not depend on the bottom-left colour and functions like any image editor (like, white and grey squares in transparent areas)

there's a magic wand tool, awesome

now trying out the coed editor

This post has been edited by Char on Jul 3 2009, 08:15 AM

Downloading :D

One thing not mentioned that I'm going to love with the sprite editor is that in Edit mode, you can shift to the next or previous subimage without having to close and reselect. And it keeps the zoom on!

So would it be a bad idea to actually program something big in the Beta?
Because idk if I wanna go back to 7. Or 6.
Oh wtf time limited.

This post has been edited by Giygas on Jul 3 2009, 09:58 AM

Hmm, the performance has slightly increased. The program I'm currently writing ran on max 1700-1800 fps before, now it reaches 1800-1900 at points.

Tile-scaling still doesn't work like it should.
Backward compatibility is perfect though.

Your not aloud to give out games made in the beta

Oh right.
Well whatever. It's still pretty cool, wonder when it's coming out though.

Also, haha

Wonder what he was trying to run

This post has been edited by Giygas on Jul 3 2009, 10:11 AM

I want to move over to 8 right now, but the time limit will mess things up if the full build (or another beta test) doesn't come out around then, leaving me going back to 7.

Seeing what I can do now with resources, I'm going to prepare my current project to move over to it when I can use it fully.

Seeing that made me want to go check room_tile_add. Unfortuantely, it's still glitching

Backwards compatibility is almost perfect for me. The only exception is that most functions for creating sprites and backgrounds have changed. I would rather they changed to a different workfile extension to something other than GMK.

that was possible in gm7 too

GM8 exe files are smaller than GM7 ones :3

Test game (about 700 KB in gm6 form):
GM6: 1,53 MB
GM7: 2,73 MB
GM8: 1,64 MB

nice, they added the compression back

Huh? Really? I wouldn't know...

Hello just added a request to be able to disable the Fullscreen Bilinear Filtering(let's hope it gets in), and I found a Room Caption Bug and a bug that created 50+ Pop-Ups in 10 Seconds. :\