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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.
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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into this:
(click to interact)Click/drag to adjust %
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Default appearance and after tweaking
Lately I've been setting up some software in Steam Deck's desktop mode and I couldn't help but to notice that some applications (like Vivaldi or Obsidian) don't quite fit with the rest of the windows.
Continue readingAs in, to have the browser clear cookies on exit except for specific websites.
In a way this is also for myself as once in a while I look for the setting in a wrong place and a handful of outdated forum posts aren't helping.
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Have you ever been working on procedural generation, deterministic netcode, or anything else where the order of operations is important?
This is a post about how to debug order of execution for random number generation functions or built-in functions in general.
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