Designing Games with Game Maker - YoYo Games

Also you can set the priority of the game process. This priority indicates how much processor
time is allotted to the game. In normal mode the operating system tries to give processor time
to each process that needs it in some reasonable way. The higher you put the priority the
more time is allotted to the game, making it run more smoothly and faster. But other
processes get less time (also Windows processes so even the mouse might not move
anymore). Use this with care.
Finally, you can set the version information of the game. This information is shown in the
helptip that pops up when the user rests his mouse on the game executable. It is also shown
when the users clicks with the right mouse button on the program and chooses properties and
then version. If you distribute your game you best fill in this information.
You should give your game a version number that consists of four parts: the major version,
the minor version, the release number and the build number. Also you should provide the
name of the company (you), the name of the product, the copyright information, and a very
brief description. All these fields should be at most 64 characters long.
Loading options
Here you can indicate what should happen when loading a game. First of all you can specify
your own loading image. Secondly, you can indicate whether to display a loading progress bar
at the bottom of the image. You have three options here. Either no loading bar is displayed, or
the default bar is displayed or you can specify two images: the background of the loading bar
and the foreground. You can indicate whether the front loading bar must be scaled (default) or
clipped while it becomes longer. In the second case, make sure enough the image is large
enough to fill the bar. (Note that both images must be specified in this case, not just one.)
It is possible to indicate that the loading image must be transparent. In this case the left
bottom pixel of the background image is used as transparent color. Also the alpha
translucency can be indicated. A value of 0 means fully translucent. A value of 255 means fully
opaque. (Both only work under Windows 2000, XP, or later.)
Secondly, you can indicate here the icon that should be used for stand-alone games. You can
only use 32x32 icons. If you try to select another type of icon you will get a warning.