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The developers have officially confirmed that shader support will be integrated into the engine. Thank you for your commitment to this cause throughout the advocacy process. We will monitor the upcoming updates to ensure a smooth implementation of these new features.

December 15, 2006

Integrate shaders into Game Maker

Integrate shaders into Game Maker

🏆 Won — 397 supporters Verified

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Started by Anonymous 19 years, 10 months ago
Today the gaming industry is very heavily graphics-oriented and keeping up with consumer demand requires keeping up with technology. Game Maker, while a very good and one-of-a-kind game development tool, is very noticeably behind the rest of the industry when it comes to graphics capabilities. The undersigned would like to express their wish to see shader programming implemented into Game Maker, which will have many benefits including: -Most current graphics-related requests can be discarded and the future number of such requests will be virtually none as shaders will allow creators almost unlimited opportunities. -Game Maker will be able to call itself truly up-to-date with current technology and will be considered by a wider range of users, bringing in more customers. -With small other additions, shaders could be used to run calculations on large data-sets very quickly, avoiding the speed limitations of GML, as long as there are provided functions to convert data to and from texture formats. -The visual quality of Game Maker creations will rise as users get easy access to effects created by others.

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Reached 250 supporters

December 7, 2006

November 24, 2006

The technical discussions occurring in the comments section have been enlightening to read. I am currently compiling these experiences to present a more comprehensive case to the developers regarding why modern shader implementation is a necessary step for the growth of this platform.

November 20, 2006

The petition has reached one hundred signatures today. This response underscores the desire within the development community to modernize our graphics capabilities.

Reached 100 supporters

November 20, 2006

6 Comments

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Mike Tran
19 years ago Featured

its 2014 almost. stop holding us back with basic sprite stuff. give us shaders already.

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Kevin Brooks
19 years ago Featured

Yes. This would fix literally everything I have a problem with right now.

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Sarah Bello
19 years ago Featured

Please. I am tired of having to switch engines just for basic lighting effects. We need this update BADLY.

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Jason Guerrero
19 years ago Featured

literally just need bloom and some basic distortion. why is this so hard to get added?

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Alex Collins
19 years ago Featured

Without shader support this engine is just dying. Need to keep up with the competition or everyone is gonna jump ship to unity.

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Dave Kumar
19 years ago Featured

GAME MAKER PLS. my projects look so dated compared to everything else out there.