Version numbers - How they work [Game Maker | Basics]
87This basics video tutorial shows you what version numbers are in GameMaker (software in general) and how semantic versioning is a standard practise in software development.
Image any game or software and you will see that it has a version number attached to it. This number combination is mostly of 3 numbers seperated by a dot and it tells you in what kind of state the software (game) is currently in. This standardisation is called Semantic Versioning or short SemVer for software developement.
The first number indicates if the software is in early acces, alpha or beta or pre-release state, so this would be then a 0. Everything above 1 is a full release and post releases that are major.
The second number indicates that new features or minor additional content/changes/features have been added to the software but are not breaking the overall structure.
The third number indicates that patches/bugfixes were done.
A quick rule also: Each time a major or minor version change has been done, you nullify the right numbers back to 0.
Tldr:
First number - (major - alpha, beta, full release)
Second number - minor additional features/content
Third number - bugfixes/changes
Good small guide:
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/introduction-semantic-versioning/
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 What are version and semantic versioning
1:10 What the version number mean
3:55 Setup versions in GameMaker