Game title: KREN ⋆ Nikles dabbling in Game Dev

Kren Devlog #2 – Officially looking for a (Pixel) Artist

ByNikles May 16, 2016August 10, 2017

Today I started posting around forums. I’m looking for an artist. I have no artistic skills whatsoever; I cannot draw tilesets, sprites, animations… let alone concept art.

GameMaker Tutorials

Sprites with different images dimensions in GameMaker Studio 2

ByNikles August 8, 2017August 10, 2017

When you try to import multiple images into a single sprite in GameMaker Studio 2, you could end up with unexpected results. Specifically, if the images have different sizes (width and height), the sprite size will be equal to that of the largest image, but all the other images will be imported stretched to fill…

My Projects | Space Action Adventure Platformers

Dark Titan – Battle Over Fire

ByNikles August 23, 2018November 9, 2018

So, in response to this hilarious tweet by Burrito Tim, I’m officially naming my 2D Sci-Fi Action Adventure Platformer, Dark Titan – Battle Over Fire! Indies, not sure what to call your next game? Pick any of the red tiles: pic.twitter.com/KcMMWnTk1G — Burrito Tim (@Burrito_Tim) 22 August 2018 Here it is in all its glory. Well……

Game Design

Metroidvania Metroid-like World Design

ByNikles July 21, 2016August 10, 2017

The Metroidvania Metroid-like game genre, from a development perspective, is quite complex to master. World and level design, for examples, are core elements of the game along with player abilities and game physics. You cannot plan one without the other. This is because player abilities, powerups and game physics, are the very elements that allow the Player…

Fuzeboy | Game Design | My Projects

Fuzeboy devlog – Fair death system

ByNikles January 9, 2017January 9, 2017

Don’t you hate it when, during a death animation/sequence, your character accidentally touches a powerup or a health pack… and then it dies anyway?! This is what we wanted to avoid in Fuzeboy: unfairness. If you catch a heart during the final knockback, you will have another shot at it.

GameMaker Tutorials

How I positioned the tileset in my tech demo

ByNikles May 6, 2016August 10, 2017

In the earlier tech demo, I had positioned a truckload of similar tilesets. Those bluish/greyish square blocks are not hand picked. I did not make that work in the level editor. I got inspired by the Smart Tile Objects tutorial by HeartBeast. I simply downloaded the Square Blocks Textures from OpenGameArt.org, cut and pasted a bit in…

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