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This post is outdatedThe following (quite naive) ideas and methods have now been replaced. This post was written when I was just starting out with game development (I was learning GameMaker Studio). Player now has data (like energy, starting_x and starting_y positions, starting direction and so on) and a nice inventory of permanent upgrades. I’ve…
Advanced Animation Control in GameMaker Studio 2 – Method 1
Let’s say that you have a sprite with a complex animation (i.e. variable frame rate). As you can see from the following image, each frame will play at a specific time (I use a simple Photoshop script to export the frames, I’ll write an article about it later).
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Dark Titan – Battle Over Fire
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……
How I positioned the tileset in my tech demo
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…
Fuzeboy is now being made in GameMaker Studio 2
Yet another official announcement: Fuzeboy is now being rewritten in GameMaker Studio 2. After getting familiar with the new UI and the new GML functionalities, I’ve realized it made little to no sense at all to keep using GM:S 1.x. I’m already rewriting Fuzeboy from scratch so I might just use the new, improved IDE….
My Game Development setup
Not relevant anymoreThings changed quite a bit and thought I’m still using the same notebook, I’m now a happy Windows 10 user running GameMaker Studio 2. I use Linux only when compiling via VirtualBox. I’ll keep this short and sweet. Whenever I tell people that I have a notebook, they usually reply with something like…