The new 2022.1 GameMaker Studio version introduced a new Collision Detection system. It fixes some issues while breaking lots of things that were working just fine with the previous one. The old system used exclusive and rounded coordinates for bounding boxes. For example, the bounding box for a 16×16 collision mask would be generated from…
High speed moving platforms present us with an issue. Let’s see how to fix them and obtain bulletproof movement and collisions.
This article is about better moving platforms in GameMaker which can carry multiple objects without lags and with pixel perfect collisions.
Here’s how to code vertical and horizontal moving platforms in GameMaker Studio 2.
Here’s a small gif showing what I’m working on. It’s about pushing and carrying movable objects (which in turn can move and carry other movables). The coming article will explore a fundamental concept of programming: recursion. Due to its length and complexity, it’s going to take a while for me to publish it. It’s code…
Where are we now? So far, so good. But we can improve. In my previous post, we started coding the very basics of movement and collisions. There we understood the general idea that, since we’re making a low resolution game, we might as well check for collisions at each pixel. Replace magic numbers There’s no…
I haven’t received much feedback on the previous platformer engine articles (part I and part II) but I kept working on some features anyway. So far I implemented slopes, one way platforms and now moving platforms (that move on slopes as well). Moving platforms can carry more than one object and I’ll probably keep adding…
In this article we’ll see how to implement jump through / one way platforms. If you remember from my previous article, we kept a separate object hierarchy for jump through / one way platforms. That’s because we use them differently in our collision checking; had we made them children of solid objects, we would have…
In this series, we’ll see how to code a platformer engine in GameMaker Studio 2. It’s mainly for low resolution games but it can be tweaked to either simulate fluid, hi-res movement or to accomodate optimized collision code for hi-res games. This engine It will include pixel perfect movement slopes moving platforms jump through platforms…
I bought and watched a bunch of courses, but If I had to choose only 3, these would be the absolute best GameMaker Studio 2 courses on Udemy.
