After I realized this, I tried to build my game out to HTML5 in GMS2, but it would not run properly. Not sure what is was, but something was incompatible with it. I tried testing other projects with HTML 5 and it worked fine, so it must have been some code that didn't compute properly.
Definitely going to be submitting in HTML5 in the future though.
I had accidentally used if(keyboard_check_pressed(ord(1)) { } instead of if(keyboard_check_pressed(ord("1")) { } and that was causing a whole mess of problems for me strangely. Could be a similar problem, also could not. Good luck!
Edit: ord(1) works perfectly fine in the windows .exe, only caused problems in HTML
Edit2: Also, it turns out when exporting to HTML5, if you've used any draw_text(), the font needs to be included in the project, and set using draw_set_font(). Which is not the case in Windows.
