


It's also not exclusive to game development. I heard the original Starcraft code got deleted and all the backups were broken, but I don't know how accurate this is. You can delete your files whether you're a one-man dev or working at Blizzard. This may seem excessive, but it will save your butt in an emergency and all boils down to how much you value your Venable This could've happened no matter what engine or programming language the OP was using. Ideally, you want to have 3 copies, in at least 2 different media types, and one of them off-site. As far as backups go, make regular backups. I suggest not using GM's built-in source control solution it's a mess. I use git on BitBucket and use SourceTree as the client. It would've happened to me had I not already been using source control. It's not impossible to mess up and permanently screw up your project - which means at some point, it will happen. It seems you've learned the hard way why people espouse source control and regular backups so much. Thanks you to everyone who tried to help. If i didn't have that file then i probably would have been completely screw yyz file and i opened it with gamemaker and everything is here, everything is back! Turns out a few days ago i tried exporting my game but i gave up because it "didn't work".Īpparently it did work when i ex[orted it but i didn't realize but anyway i still have that. is there any way to export the sprites and code from that file? I also have a yoyo runner file with a completely playable version of my game (file looks like a white rectangle with the letter "A" on it). However, when i open my project it says it "can't load these resources", and it lists the names of all my lost files, does that mean they still exist? if they were completely gone wouldn't it say "can't load deleted files" or "these files don't exist?' Note: i did not have the 'enable backups' on in the preferences. I am completely devastated and don't know what to do, it would be greatly appreciated if anyone can help. yy files, i only see the files i did not delete, i also lost a lot of my sprites. i tried going through all my files but i can't find the deleted. my first game had lots of stuff i didn't need in my second game, so i deleted stuff i did not need in the second game(copy of first game) but it also deleted that stuff in the first game, so now 80% of my original game is gone and deleted. i also wanted to make a simple game with basic movement and such, so instead of copy and pasting the code from my already existing game i decided to copy my first game project and use the copy of it for the second game. For the past 3-4 months i have been working on making my own game in Gamemaker Studio 2.
