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- Team Dehdehbon (3422490)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 2 November 2025 - 01:07:19 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
For years, we've clung onto GameMaker 8 (and GM8.1 to be more precise). It's the program that introduced me to game development, and because this was all just a hobby and for fun, we never bothered switching. Don't fix what ain't broke we thought. GM8.1's workflow was just so cozy, we had a great debug workflow and besides, it was cool to be able to work on and play the game on old Windows XP machines! so cozy... any real ones reading this just got really nostalgic.But sadly, it was broke. If you go back to Windows 7 or older, our game ran perfect on basically anything, even Athlon XPs, but there was a problem... Windows 10 and 11 just do not like Gamemaker 8 games! Most systems ran just fine, but some lagged, making us look like typical lazy indie devs that can't even get a pixel game to run on a modern gaming PC. This was really embarrassing considering it SHOULD run just fine on moder...