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[jagged21]

I am porting a game from GameMaker 8.1 to GameMaker Studio. When I try to run it in HTML5, there is nothing but a blank screen. However, running it in debug mode in HTML5 works and the game runs with only a few things not working right. Any ideas or suggestions as to why this might be happening?

[jagged21]

Now after the update, the game won't run at all, even in debug mode. There isn't even a loading bar, just a blank screen. What could be causing this?

[Mike.Dailly]

Post the code and someone will help..... Or post a bug, mark it private and upload the code there.

[jagged21]

I can't post the source code since I don't own it. I was just hoping for some info on what could cause this. What code in the game is actually executed before the loading screen shows up? I put a blank room as the first thing and that won't even show up. I am fairly new to GameMaker, but it seems like code for the different objects isn't executed until they are actually created. Anyone know where I could start looking to fix this?

[Zombie_Plan]

I can't post the source code since I don't own it. I was just hoping for some info on what could cause this. What code in the game is actually executed before the loading screen shows up? I put a blank room as the first thing and that won't even show up. I am fairly new to GameMaker, but it seems like code for the different objects isn't executed until they are actually created. Anyone know where I could start looking to fix this?

I had this too. Turns out I had simply defined the wrong object in a link on an object's step event.

[jagged21]

Well, I found the problem. It was this line of code:

a += .00007

Changing it to
a += .0007
fixed the problem.

[benetonmovie]

Well, I found the problem. It was this line of code:

a += .00007

Changing it to
a += .0007
fixed the problem.

That's a nasty bug! Report it PUH-LEASE.

[jagged21]

That's a nasty bug! Report it PUH-LEASE.

Done. I hope they fix it so it doesn't happen to anyone else.

[Maverick22]

That's a nasty bug! Report it PUH-LEASE.

Done. I hope they fix it so it doesn't happen to anyone else.

I understand how this could be a bug in your game, but how is it a bug in GM:S? Was 'a' not incrementing correctly? Was there a floating point error? I feel like I'm missing something here.

Thanks

[jagged21]

I understand how this could be a bug in your game, but how is it a bug in GM:S? Was 'a' not incrementing correctly? Was there a floating point error? I feel like I'm missing something here.

Thanks

It's not an issue with my game. It's the fact that inserting a += .00007 (where a is any variable) causes the whole thing to not work without any error messages or anything.

[Maverick22]

OK jagged21, maybe it is a GM:S error, but I think you should look into this error a little closer, especially if you are writing a cross-platform game. What does the value .00007 control? Sounds to me that the game ran fast enough on GM8.1 so the value was not too small, but maybe it runs slower on HTML5 so you needed a bigger value like .0007 to get past some creation code or something. I am just throwing out guesses, but experience tells me that short of a floating point precision error in the runner, a simple increment operation is not a bug in GM:S, especially when multiplying the increment value by 10 fixes the problem. Take my suggestion for what it cost, but nipping these things in the butt now can save you hours/days/weeks of debugging later.

Best of luck.

EDIT: Per Russell's explanation, I stand corrected!

Edited by Maverick22, 04 May 2012 - 04:24 PM.

[rwkay]

The problem is fixed in our internal builds... it was an issue with our obfuscator not handling scientific notation numbers correctly...

Russell

[blayzekohime]

The problem is fixed in our internal builds... it was an issue with our obfuscator not handling scientific notation numbers correctly...

Russell

I have this same issue. The strange thing is that the game works perfectly without any bugs whatsoever if I run it in debug mode. But if I run it in regular mode or export it to an index.html file, none of the blocks disappear when you line them up (it's a puzzle game). It seems silly because if it works perfectly in debug mode it should work exactly the same way in normal mode, just without the debug feed.

There isn't a way to build the debug version instead of the normal version is there?

Edited by blayzekohime, 26 September 2012 - 07:56 PM.