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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….
Kren Devlog #1 – Upgrade System and Level Specific Items
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…
Fuzeboy devlog – Fair death system
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.
Choosing the right resolution for a 2D Platformer
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.
Testing the platformer engine I’ve been working on
I’ll write a longer post soon. You can watch the video on youtube with some audio effects as well. I’m still early into the planning stages of the game. I just needed a platformer engine I can work with to build the game. It’s going to be a Metroidvania type of game. More on that…
Kren devlog #3 – basic metroidvania planning
A well developed metroidvania game should start with a solid planning phase. One of the first things to figure out is the character movement. I’m not talking about physical variables such as speed, friction and acceleration. I’m talking about figuring out what are the movements we want the Player to be able to execute during the…