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Advanced Animation Control in GameMaker Studio 2 – Method 1
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Fuzeboy full steam ahead!
ByNiklesIn 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…
