Game title: KREN
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Kren Devlog #1 – Upgrade System and Level Specific Items
ByNiklesThis 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…
Fuzeboy devlog – Fair death system
ByNiklesDon’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.
Fuzeboy – Status Update – [9 AUG 2017]
ByNiklesAs some of you might know, Fuzeboy’s project scope changed considerably during its development. There’s been an overhaul of features, specifications, goals and deadlines. Originally thought to be a quick mobile only game, we then shifted our vision a bit to make it playable on desktops as well; now we decided to abandon the mobile…
How I positioned the tileset in my tech demo
ByNiklesIn 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…
Screen Tearing / Wavy Effect in GameMaker Studio 2 (using Surfaces)
ByNiklesAfter playing Environmental Station Alpha, I decided I wanted to implement the screen tearing effect Hempuli is using in his game. I didn’t know how he achieved it so I had to start from scratch and think about different approaches. Knowing nothing about shaders, I was left with surfaces. I jotted down some code and…
New tileset almost ready
ByNiklesI posted a preview of the new tileset on my ko-fi page. Soon I’ll have a working “mini-world” with all the environments ready to show. The tileset will undergo further revisions but the overall feeling is there. Right now we’re working on doors, enemies and powerups.