depth = -y: The Most Famous Line of Code in GameMaker

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The Game Maker - The 18th Carol Reed Mystery (2023)
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Automatic depth sorting in GameMaker couldn't possibly be any easier!

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0:00 Introduction
0:44 What is depth sorting?
1:36 depth = -y in action
2:45 Why this works
3:38 Improving depth = -y
8:17 Performance talks: is depth = -y bad? (Spoiler: no)
12:39 Objects with a depth below -16,000 will have their GUI layer disappear
15:28 Alternatives to depth = -y
16:30 The end

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