Even better (high speed) moving platforms
High speed moving platforms present us with an issue. Let’s see how to fix them and obtain bulletproof movement and collisions.
Better moving platforms
This article is about better moving platforms in GameMaker which can carry multiple objects without lags and with pixel perfect collisions.
Moving Platforms – Horizontal and Vertical
Here’s how to code vertical and horizontal moving platforms in GameMaker Studio 2.
Moving Blocks – Platformer Engine Updates
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…
Platformer engine cleanup and fixes
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. Let’s create some variables so we can safely delete magic numbers from code (it’s a good idea…
Platformer engine updates (moving platforms)
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…
Jump through / one way platforms
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…
How to code a platformer engine
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…
Top 3 GameMaker Udemy Courses
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
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 it. For this project I’ll be using freely available tiles and sprites: https://ansimuz.itch.io/grotto-escape-game-art-pack https://ansimuz.itch.io/grotto-escape-ii-art-pack- https://ansimuz.itch.io/grotto-escape-chibi-monsters I’ve just made some minor edits to the player sprite…