Sorting

When you first start out with game maker, you create your sprites, objects and so forth and you can easily get to them from the treeview at the left-hand side, but when your games start getting bigger, you'll find the list of objects gets large and you'll start to have trouble finding things in among the list, take a look at the following two lists of resources:

 

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The list on the right looks a lot tidier and you know where things are immediately, this is because it uses GROUPS. Groups are extremely useful for placing things all together, like enemies, player stuff, power-ups and a whole lot more, well worth it, just right-click and Add Group.

 

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