I have a serious question, that might make me seem like a thick-headed moron.
I'm no programmer, the only thing that I came close to learning was making games in CMD with a buddy of mine.
However I have also been learning some GML on the side, ever since I got GM8.1 Pro. It's a wonderful engine.
I'm not a wonderful person, I'm not even bright and honestly I don't think someone like me is welcome here.
Now my question (probably) has nothing to do with programming, as it involves my sprites and backgrounds.
I've made a few prototypes over the years (nothing I think is worth sharing right now) and I keep deleting
my saved Game Maker files and starting over on things, and this collides together with a strange fear I have...
I make pixel art in MsPaint and I save my images everywhere on my C: drive.
I stick spritesheets in my pictures folder, I crop them down to each sprite and toss them in my Dropbox or downloads
folder, and I always 'Load Sprite' when I want to put it in my game/prototype.
But there's this weird and somewhat irrational fear I have on my mind.
Does it matter where (after I'm done drawing in MsPaint and want to save my art) I put that picture file?
Where does GM save it after I put it in the art's file, the project's file itself? Along with everything else in the project's file?
I've tried making designated folders for me to put my art in, but I also put my audio and even the project's file
in there in one big folder. But I always get this strange feeling, and freakout. And eventually I scrap everything.
I don't know why I do this. Maybe it's more of a psychological thing. I'm not OCD.
I don't know all that much about Game Maker, and I still want to use it for a few game projects.
Maybe someone on here can explain it to me, and prove to me that I am overreacting.
While I'm asking, does it matter where I save my project's file? I think that when you're done it all gets shoved into an .exe
and they say you should probably put that and a README in a zipped folder. I do recall reading that somewhere.
But this is a weird feeling I keep getting.
Where do you put your sprite pictures? (If you don't use Game Maker's sprite editor ?)
Same with audio and other things, I put some of my sound effects in my pictures folder sometimes with my art.
Other times I keep it in my music folder. Folders, folders, folders...
I'm sorry. I've been nervous about showing my face on here again, and a lot is going on right now.
I just want to relax and work on a small game, if I can.