Game Development Reference
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Parents
In many other programming languages, it is possible to have objects created with the same
attributes as another. In GameMaker, this is called parenting. A parent in GameMaker is
any object that has had another object parented to it. Once an object has been parented, it
can use the same code as its parent without it needing to be re-written. An object that has a
parent is often referred to as a child object. Any events within the parent object are the ones
inherited by the child, causing it to behave the same way. If an event is added directly to a
child object, then the parent's event is discarded. It is, however, possible to still inherit the
event using the GameMaker Language code.
