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Even better (high speed) moving platforms

May 12, 2020April 29, 2020 by Nikles

High speed moving platforms present us with an issue. Let’s see how to fix them and obtain bulletproof movement and collisions.

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Categories GameMaker Tutorials Tags Engine, GameMaker, GML, Moving Platforms, Platformer, Platformer Engine Series 12 Comments

Better moving platforms

April 29, 2020April 24, 2020 by Nikles

This article is about better moving platforms in GameMaker which can carry multiple objects without lags and with pixel perfect collisions.

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Categories GameMaker Tutorials Tags Engine, GameMaker, GML, Moving Platforms, Platformer, Platformer Engine Series 7 Comments

Moving Platforms – Horizontal and Vertical

April 29, 2020April 12, 2020 by Nikles

Here’s how to code vertical and horizontal moving platforms in GameMaker Studio 2.

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Categories GameMaker Tutorials Tags Engine, GameMaker, GML, Moving Platforms, Platformer, Platformer Engine Series 6 Comments

Moving Blocks – Platformer Engine Updates

February 5, 2020 by Nikles
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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 …

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Platformer engine cleanup and fixes

April 29, 2020January 28, 2020 by Nikles
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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 …

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Categories GameMaker Tutorials 7 Comments

Platformer engine updates (moving platforms)

January 12, 2020 by Nikles
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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 …

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Jump through / one way platforms

April 29, 2020December 27, 2019 by Nikles
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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 …

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How to code a platformer engine

April 29, 2020December 23, 2019 by Nikles
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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, …

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Top 3 GameMaker Udemy Courses

November 22, 2019 by Nikles
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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.

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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 …

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