Designing Games with Game Maker - YoYo Games

When you start Game Maker in advanced mode, the following form is shown:
It contains all that was there in simple mode, but there are a number of additional resources,
buttons, and menu items. Also, as we will see in the chapters that follow, the different
resources have additional options. Here we will discuss the additional menu items.
File menu
In the file menu you can find the following additional commands:
• Publish your Game. This command will take you to our website were you can easily
upload and publish your finished game such that everybody can play it. Carefully
follow the instructions to make your game available. Please only use this for finished
games, not for preliminary versions. This possibility is only available in the Pro
Edition.
• Merge Game. With this command you can merge all the resources (sprites, sounds,
objects, rooms, etc.) from another game into the current game. This is very useful if
you want to make parts you want to reuse (e.g. menu systems). (Note that all
resources and instances and tiles will get a new id, which might cause problems if you
use these in scripts.) It is your responsibility to make sure that the resources in the
two files have different names, otherwise problems might occur.