Tools for debugging your games
No matter how experienced you are at scripting and making games, mistakes will always be made. Sometimes it may be a typo or a missing variable, and in this case GameMaker: Studio will catch this and display a code error dialog. Other times, the game may not do what you are expecting it to do, such as passing through a wall when you should not. In this case, there is nothing technically wrong with the code, it is just constructed improperly. Tracking down these bugs can be very tedious and possibly impossible if it were not for debugging tools. In order to use these tools, the game must be run in the debug mode, which you can access by clicking on the Run Debug Mode button in the toolbar, or by going into the Menu ...
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