By looking through the creation dates of all my GM6 files, I've traced my Game Maker history back to a year ago today. I downloaded because I was bored and home alone on a Saturday; now look where it's got me. W00t.

As for Mekanos, it's getting pretty close to a demo. I composed another song for it yesterday (took me about four hours, but I did it), which is one of the main reasons work on it has been so slow. I have trouble composing music that I think fits. I've also finished all the room transitions and issues with persistence (at least for now), which was a lot of work. So yeah. Won't be long now. Get psyched.

And a random bit of trivia- Mekanos originally came from an idea I had for an undersea exploration game. But one day I started working on an engine and decided to set it in a castle instead, I don't know why. Once you find out the game's storyline, you'll realize that it doesn't really matter.

Does anyone know a better way of making it so that certain objects, like bosses and switches and powerups, can only be gotten once in a room, but others, such as enemies and destructible blocks, come back when you leave the room and re-enter? What I've been doing is having all the enemies self-destruct when I leave the room, and then having the main character re-create them when he enters the room, which works, but is very tedious to code. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Well, I've run out of things to say. So long.