Ever since my Dad found GameMaker for me when I was 10 years old, I've been making games with GameMaker.
As a teenager, I made so many games. GameMaker was my life. All I wanted to do almost everyday was make games.
I made a lot of different kinds of games, but the ones I liked making the most, were platformers.

I made a lot of multiplayer games for me a my sisters. Those games mostly were just big playgrounds we could just do whatever we wanted in.
A lot of games I made used sprites I got from the internet too. I used a lot of Mario, Mega Man, and even Cosmo, from Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure once.

Even my username is from whatever I was doing at the time in GameMaker when I was around 12 years old. I don't remember what it was though.

I played around with the drag and drop stuff for a while at the beginning. I also remember while trying to figure out how variables worked, I ended up making a game that froze the whole PC.
A lot of my games were simple while using GameMaker 3. When GameMaker 4 came out, that's when my games got bigger and better, cause I could do a lot more with GameMaker now.
I think GameMaker 4 is when I started trying to learn GML, and use the Script drag and drop more.
As GM5, 6, and 7 came out, my games got more interesting as I learned more about GameMaker.

I remember when 3D was added to GameMaker, I played around with that a lot too.
I remember making a big 3D room with lots of stuff happening in it. There was a conveyor belt with food moving on it. And it was feeding this big creature, and as it ate, it got bigger.

Shortly after turning 18, my computer was messed up or something. So my dad tried repairing Windows with the Windows XP disk.
He read somewhere that it sounded like it would keep my files. I don't think we had an external drive at the time. So he tried it, and it reformatted my hard drive.
Everything that was on my computer was gone... I cried a lot. I was very upset.

All my special creations were gone... I loved everything I made in GameMaker.

I feel like things weren't the same after that. Especially with GameMaker 8 and GameMaker Studio becoming a thing.
I just stuck with GameMaker 7, cause the newer versions started changing things.

And this is about the time I started working on RIG2.

I made so many crazy and cool things with GameMaker back then. Sometimes I wish I could look back at those old GameMaker games...
But I can't, the files don't exist anymore.
So how do I fix this feeling?

I need to go make new games in GameMaker. And now that I'm older, and I have GameMaker Studio 2, my games will be even better! 🎉