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Adding more levels in Game Maker

In the last year I have had almost a hundred questions on how to add more levels to your games. I am hoping to do a video tutorial on this but until then you can use the following hint.

I will asume that you have been following the Breakout tutorial and you want to add a new level. The example needs a working score system.

First you need to use the Test Score action. Find it under the Score tab in actions and create an object with an End Step event and insert the Test Score action. Now define a score that needs to be reached (set it to Larger than) and then let the following action be a Next Room action (found under the main1 tab). Insert this object into your first level.

Now create a new Room with your level content and test the game. Whenever you reach the set score the player moves forward one Room.

To add even more levels you can create a more objects similar to the first and set higher score targets. Insert these objects in your levels so that the player needs to reach higher and higher scores.

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