WIP Paper Mario: The Star Princess

[PaperMarioLover]

It's normal for GM games to take several seconds to launch, even on a powerful PC.

If you're noticing lagging when a new area loads, you might want to remove individual objects from the room one by one to make sure there's not an object with a performance issue. You may also want to see if loading audio affects performance - if you find performance improves when you don't play music, you might be able to get a performance gain by adjusting the compression/playback settings.

I think I might know what's going on.  When I first started GameMaker, I didn't realize that tilesets are more effective than objects when it comes platformers (specifically for GameMaker).  So, the first level, the blocks that Princess Peach walks on are actually a bunch of individual objects.  So, lemme see if I can replace those individual objects with tiles and see if that doesn't help.

Like I said, I'm a beginner, so I'm a bit rusty.  Thanks for pointing that out though, cause no one likes a laggy game.

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Ok, so that helped my game a lot, it's not as laggy as it was in a couple of places.  My game still lags a bit at the beginning of transitions, but it doesn't take it a while to correct, it's almost instant.  That and I cleaned everything too, my code, my audioe, all of that.  I dunno, should I upgrade my memory?

You should check out my game when you get the chance.  Updates every week, and sometimes more than one update per week:  Paper Mario:  The Star Princess