Does it run slow all the time or does it run slow when the fire particles are on the screen? I tested it on my old laptop and it seemed rather smooth -- I tried to optimize it as much as possible (except for my stupid fire particles) but I guess I can only do so much.
Don't worry, it's an issue that seems to occur in Game Maker games especially on my computer, I just tried Verge on someone else's computer and the game ran fine and smoothly there!
My own computer is an old laptop, so I'm going to search for updated graphics drivers, I suspect my drivers don't support some feature of Game Maker. Currently the game's slow all the time, when the fire particles appear it only adds a little to that.
I'm not really a programmer so I do things in stupid ways most of the time. ;p
I don't agree
, the game design in Verge is very smart, so I believe that the structure behind is done in a smart way too.