Devastating, my heart goes out to Sandy's family. I am ever grateful for where we have gotten today. Rest in peace.

there is a sky and it is blue, did you know?

Thanks for stoppping by y'all :3 <3

Very nice! Does get easier over time! Hope to see your game progress well!

Very sick

Good start! I saw in your reply you’ve been using GameMaker, how long? 😮

No I did not win, but that is okay! Life isn't always about winning everything. I am happy to just be apart of this! 🙂

Congratulations mate!

Quite recently added in, the lot of us are still waiting on the tools to make our own prefabs

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GameMaker is more than smart enough in a lot of cases where you may have “self[$ "foo"] = "bat";” to compile it down to its hah variant.

Whereas something like “self[$ key] = "bar";” is not optimised for us. But as I’ve said, usually you don’t need this level of optimisation.

- Frequently accessing the exact same variable via the struct accessor (or struct_get/set function)
- The variable name is not known at compile time (this includes constant strings via the accessor or functions)
- The performance impact on hashing for each accessor is high enough that you need this.

In the GameMaker sense, as others have mentioned, a variable hash is essentially the underlying value that represents a variable. (So “foo = “bar”, the compiler will compile it down to “hash_of_foo = “bar”)

Though, it’s not super useful unless you are:

Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s how Microsoft ends up handling Windows, with the way things are going.

I'm not surprised, but I had felt quite lucky for awhile. Given that I have been often asked in the past, despite how old I am. I guess maybe one day I'll look older than 16!