In this post I’ll try to write down the thinking process I made when I chose to develop Kren at a 384×216 sceen resolution.
In November 2016 I met Denis (@darftey). He’s a pixel artist. One of the best I’ve ever met, actually. We teamed up to develop Fuzeboy. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that since then, the development of KREN has been put on hold indefinitely. We’re pushing hard on this mobile platformer game. There is still…
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…
I’m fond of platformers. It’s only natural that I spent the past year studying and refining platformer engines for GameMaker: Studio. Here’s what I actually use for my engine.
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.
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…
