Make sure to start your game in fullscreen, especially when your game is such a small resolution. The game's text is nearly impossible to read for most players due to the incredibly small text. You can scale the game up with the GameMaker viewport controls, but I would recommend starting in fullscreen over an arbitrary viewport size, and providing a button to toggle between fullscreen, generally F11.
I'd also recommend adding a custom icon; this makes your game appear much more professional. And you can enable window resizing to let users toggle maximization for the window and manually resize the window size.
These are all really quick and easy changes once you know how. I have a tutorial under 1 minutes that covers all these specific changes (as I got really annoyed seeing these same issues with dozens of game jam games haha 😅):
And I also have a longer version of the same tutorial going into more depth:
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Nice work! Congrats on your first game jam!
Make sure to start your game in fullscreen, especially when your game is such a small resolution. The game's text is nearly impossible to read for most players due to the incredibly small text. You can scale the game up with the GameMaker viewport controls, but I would recommend starting in fullscreen over an arbitrary viewport size, and providing a button to toggle between fullscreen, generally F11.
I'd also recommend adding a custom icon; this makes your game appear much more professional. And you can enable window resizing to let users toggle maximization for the window and manually resize the window size.
These are all really quick and easy changes once you know how. I have a tutorial under 1 minutes that covers all these specific changes (as I got really annoyed seeing these same issues with dozens of game jam games haha 😅):
And I also have a longer version of the same tutorial going into more depth: