Nikles on GameMaker Studio 2 ⋆ Hobbyist Game Developer having fun with GameMaker Studio

Moving Blocks – Platformer Engine Updates

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 by Nikles

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 …

Platformer engine cleanup and fixes

January 29, 2020January 28, 2020 by Nikles

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 …

Platformer engine updates (moving platforms)

January 12, 2020January 12, 2020 by Nikles

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 …

Jump through / one way platforms

January 26, 2020December 27, 2019 by Nikles

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 …

How to code a platformer engine

December 25, 2019December 23, 2019 by Nikles

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, …

Top 3 GameMaker Udemy Courses

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019 by Nikles

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.

Free GameMaker Platfomer Tutorial Soon

April 30, 2019November 12, 2018 by Nikles

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I’m working on a free basic platformer tutorial. I’ll post a youtube video and a blog post as soon as I manage to complete it, edit the video and voice-over …

Blog update

November 15, 2018November 8, 2018 by Nikles

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I’m currently working on this blog; fine tuning WordPress and the theme so it might look a bit off for a while. I got to the point where it took …

New tileset almost ready

September 20, 2018 by Nikles

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I posted a preview of the new tileset on my ko-fi page. Soon I’ll have a working “mini-world” with all the environments ready to show. The tileset will undergo further revisions but the overall feeling is there. Right now we’re working on doors, enemies and powerups.

Book Update – 2018-09-01 – It’s taking shape

September 1, 2018September 1, 2018 by Nikles

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So I found an artist willing to collaborate with me on my GameMaker Studio 2 book. Thank God I can work with him once again! He’s the most talented Pixel …