Sunday, July 5, 2026

Strange Glitch

I found out the hard way that in GameMaker, the instance_place function doesn't, well, function if the object it's running from doesn't have its own sprite.  I spent an embarrassingly long time trying to troubleshoot this one for every other issue I could think of.

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