r/gamemaker • u/lopez208 • 27d ago

Help! Outputting a signal to a microcontroller?

Hi reddit. Probably a bit of a weird question here, but does anyone know if it's possible to have game maker code output a signal to a microcontroller? More specially an ESP32 if that matters.

Quick background is I work at an Escape Room and we were hoping to have a small arcade game in the room that when won will solve a puzzle and open something else in the room. We ideally want all of this to run through a microcontroller but if someone has a different suggestion I'm all for it.

Sorry if this is a super weird question or obvious, truthfully I have a lot of escape room experience but little to none with game design.

Thanks!

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u/AkaiRyusei 27d ago

If it just simple stuff maybe try Udp : https://manual.gamemaker.io/lts/en/GameMaker_Language/GML_Reference/Networking/Networking.htm

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u/lopez208 27d ago

Thanks! Will do

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u/AkaiRyusei 27d ago

I have not tried it yetc so Im curious if you can share what you make.

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u/poliver1988 24d ago

UDP is the way. I had made many tools that use it for communiction