Error: Your app was launched during the build phase in GameMaker

Error: Your app was launched during the build

phaseGameMaker Series

josephehealy@hotmail.com@devfish

SCENARIO

• Game runs fine when run to Windows• When run to Windows 8 (native or js) it runs fine

the FIRST time• When run to Win8 the second time you get:

How do you even get it to run again• You must uninstall your dev game

manually• Hit [winkey] to get to start menu• Type your game name• Right mouse on file on right when

it comes up• Click uninstall

Bad Ways to Close a GM Game• Swipe down from top on a touch screen device• Click little [ x ] in upper right corner

Good Ways to Close GM Game• Its actually “way” not “ways”• Alt-F4 – the only way to go

Other resources

• Mark Alexander - http://help.yoyogames.com/entries/24974026-Error-Your-App-Was-Launched-During-the-Build-Phase • DevFish on “build phase error” due to Visual Studio

2012 not being installed - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/devfish/archive/2014/11/03/gamemaker-build-of-winjs-fails-without-vs2012-installed-error-your-app-was-launched-during-the-build-phase.aspx

Thank You

Joe Healy / jhealy@Microsoft.com / @devfish

http://www.yoyogames.com http://dfwiki.devfish.net – search GameMaker

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