Game Maker 1.4

Game Maker 1.4 was a major version of Game Maker with lots of changes and improvments, it has appeared after Game Maker 1.3. Though the exact changes in this versions are not clear, it has been made clear that this version was a major release.

Complete List of Changes

 * All special file handling routines to delete, rename, import, and export games are now put in a menu rather than in the load form. The menu also contains all the other possible commands.


 * Game Maker can now create stand-alone version of the games in a simple way (there is an item for this in the menu).


 * In the built-in language you can now work with strings. In particular, using advanced drawing, you can draw text on the screen. Also there are a number of input forms you can pop-up from the code.


 * You can now check whether a key is currently pressed.


 * Some visual changes. In particular, the score is now shown in the form caption (to be able to remove the toolbar in the stand-alone version of the games).


 * Some small bug corrections
 * you can now read images with capital extensions
 * added colors c_white and c_yellow
 * advanced drawing routine is now also saved for non-active objects
 * corrected error with forall statement with non-existing objects
 * exporting to an existing file now is possible