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This post serves as a collection of descriptions and links to various GameMaker-related assets and extensions that I have published over time.
Back when publishing it in 2017, I thought it was longer than expected, but it had since grown about twice in size. At least the blog has that "navigation" sidebar now.
Also should answer the "how do I support your work" question that some readers have.
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A tale as old as time: I'm playing a videogame with my pals and something interesting happens. I take a screenshot with Alt-PrtScr or Win-Shift-S, paste it into the chat, and then it takes a little bit because screenshots images are copied losslessly and not every platform will compress them.
Granted, I'm not the one to pay for all this storage space, but still!
After doing a "paste into Paint.NET, save as WEBP, upload that WEBP" ritual for a while and falling off a cliff in PEAK a couple times due to doing this mid-session, I decided to investigate.
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I recently had to dig this up because someone asked about it, and perhaps someone else might want it too. Also featuring some notes on themes in GM:S.
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If you use a touch-enabled display on Windows, you might have noticed a certain quirk: when you tap on the touchscreen, Windows might move your cursor to touch location, but will not put it back afterwards, which is an inconvenience if it's a smaller secondary display that you use for macros/etc. or even if you are using mouse/touch interchangeably.
So I wrote an AutoHotKey macro that fixes this.
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With sufficiently poor luck you might have already noticed The New Thing in the latest Discord update: Home/End keys now navigate to the start/end of the current paragraph instead of a line.
This is a tiny post about fixing that.
Continue readingIf you try to run a game compiled in GameMaker≥2024.11 on Windows 7, you'll be met with the following error message:
![An error message reads [originally in Spanish]: The procedure entry point MFCreateDXGIDeviceManager could not be located in the dynamic link library MFPlat.dll](/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/mfplat_error.png)
Or, in English,
The procedure entry point MFCreateDXGIDeviceManager could not be located in the dynamic link library MFPlat.dll.And that is an inconvenience, but it is a fixable one. Continue reading
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Featuring more tricks that you probably haven't heard about, and not just for old GameMaker versions!
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This is a small post about how to use electron.desktopCapturer to capture a screenshot
in the new realities of main/renderer process separation.
I wrote a bunch of PRNGs for GameMaker!
This is a large-ish post about what these are, how they work, when you might want to use them, and performance comparisons.
Continue readingGood for placing objects around a grid cell! Like this:
(click to interact)Click/tap to select point
You give the function a grid XY and it tells you where the next point should be to have it go in a spiral.
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