Designing Games with Game Maker - YoYo Games

about the game and how it was created. You might want to indicate at the bottom of the help
file that the user must press Escape to continue playing.)
If you want to make a bit more fancy help, use a program like Word. Then select the part you
want and use copy and paste to move it from Word to the game information editor. For more
advanced games though you probably will not use this mechanism at all but use some
dedicated rooms to show help about the game.
Global Game Settings
There are a number of settings you can change for your game. These change the shape of the
main window, set some graphics options, deal with interaction settings, to loading image,
constants and information about the creator of the game. Also you can indicate here which
files should be included in stand-alone games and how errors should be handled.
The settings can be changed by double clicking on Global Game Settings in the resource
tree at the left of the screen. They are subdivided in a number of tabbed pages. (Some
options are only available in advanced mode.)
Graphics options
In this tab you can set a number of options that are related to the graphical appearance of
your game. It is normally useful to check out the effects of these options because they can
have a significant effect on the way the game looks. Remember though that different users
have different machines. So better make sure that the settings also work on other peoples
machines.
Start in fullscreen mode
When checked the game runs in the full screen; otherwise it runs in a window.
Scaling
Here you can indicate what happens when the window is larger than the room or when the
game is run in full-screen mode. There are three choices. You can indicate a fixed scaling. The
room is drawn scaled with the given amount in the center of the window or the center of the
screen. 100 indicates no scaling. You typically use fixed scaling when your sprites and rooms
are very small. The second option is scale the room such that it fills the window or screen but