I'm still working on adventure games in gamemaker and due to my background with AGS I instinctively structure my games like AGS would.
Out of curiosity, how did you handle Gamemaker's resource handling? Has this changed in recent times? I've been out of the loop since GMS2 was introduced...
The reason I'm asking is I have developed a point'n'click engine in GMS v1.4 back in he day. There's even a thread in this forum somewhere...
But I eventually abandoned it as I realized Gamemaker was introducing more problems than it was solving.
Biggest issue was resource caching - GMS kept everything in RAM, all of the game graphics and sounds, *uncompressed*, *all* the frickin' time! Which is not a problem for simple tile-based games, but once you hit it with dozen or so high res background images and animated sprites, things go south quite quickly, especially on mobile.
That demanded creating own resource handling system to load room data, etc. - custom room editor, custom bytecode scripting system... By this time I realized I was using 80% of time just handling GMS peculiarities, and said fudge it.
And all of that would be irrelevant if Gamemaker had its own resource caching system and was loading dynamically from data files. Apparently this was an intended, built-in killswitch mechanism that prevented users from creating other "game makers" in Gamemaker. To be fair, it still could be done, there are quite powerful functions for dealing with binary data, but doing that kind of work in GM Script is ... painful.
