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The old ones show a special red color and can no longer be added but they will function correctly. You can now set them in the action to show the highscore list. There is no longer an option to show the score in the caption or not (there is now an action for this).Game Maker 5.0 is no longer supported on Windows 95.Read game files created with version 4.3. Game Maker 5.0 is largely compatible with version 4.3. It should clear up soon unless something bad has happened.The following are some of the major changes in GAME MAKER

The site appears to be down or under heavy load at the time of posting. I just see a really cool offer that I think some people here may be interested in knowing about. Sorry if this sounds overly advertise-y! I almost never post in this forum section, so you may not recognise me, but I'm no escaped lunatic. Standard licenses usually cost $50, so if you think there's any possibility you might someday be interested in making games, then I urge you to take the opportunity to register while it's being offered on a silver platter! The official site has a community area if you need help, but there's also this subReddit full of people willing to answer any questions, help you get started, provide tutorials/examples or just generally cheer you on. After submitting your email address, a key will shortly be sent to you (it may take up to 20 minutes, their servers are getting hammered at the moment) which you then enter into the program in order to register it from Free -> Standard edition. Once updated, the program will restart and you'll be able to pick the middle option to register a new account. You must install the program and allow it to fully update (using the "beta" channel, which is selected by default, so don't change it). YoYo Games are giving free Standard license keys to anybody who downloads and installs GameMaker Studio before December 3rd. As one example, Spelunky was created using GameMaker.

It's most suited to 2D games, but 3D is possible as well. Good for creating rapid prototypes or even fully developed games, and supports multiple platforms including mobile devices. GameMaker Studio is a game-creation environment that takes a lot of the legwork out of programming games from scratch.
