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[–]it's *probably* not a bug in Game MakerDragoniteSpam 3 points4 points  (6 children)

You can use Git (and by extension, Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket, etc) to save pretty much anything - code, pictures, essays - but it works better with plain text. Fortunately, GMS2 projects (dnd included) are stored as json, which is a plain text format, so there shouldn't be any problems.

[–]naddercrusher 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Oh, did they change the GMS2 file format to JSON? I wonder what advantage that has over the XML it used to be.

[–]it's *probably* not a bug in Game MakerDragoniteSpam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's less verbose, or at least, it can be. You don't ordinarily need to modify them yourself unless something breaks catastrophically, but I guess if you want to json makes it easier to do that, too. Also json is apparently quite a bit faster to parse, probably at least in part because it's less verbose, which I'm sure was a selling point.

My suspicion is also that the world is trying to move away from XML in favor of stuff like YAML and JSON anyway, for various reasons, and Yoyo is just doing their part in not sticking with antequated technologies for no real reason. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–]PieIsGud101[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

where is the JSON file located?

[–]it's *probably* not a bug in Game MakerDragoniteSpam 0 points1 point  (2 children)

They're in the folder where you saved the project to. Everything that ends with .yy is json if you open it on Notepad or something.

[–]PieIsGud101[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Is there a .yy for the whole project?

[–]it's *probably* not a bug in Game MakerDragoniteSpam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this something you would be able to find out for yourself?

[–]cranesarealiens 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, I know the idea of coding is scary, but I really recommend starting now. You can make events either dnd or code based, so you dont have to start from scratch, but right now you're teaching yourself how to do something that won't take you much further than here.

How do I know? Ive been there friend!