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 later.
The Metroidvania Metroid-like game genre, from a development perspective, is quite complex to master. World and level design, for examples, are core elements of the game along with player abilities and game physics. You cannot plan one without the other. This is because player abilities, powerups and game physics, are the very elements that allow the Player…
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…
After 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…
The new 2022.1 GameMaker Studio version introduced a new Collision Detection system. It fixes some issues while breaking lots of things that were working just fine with the previous one. The old system used exclusive and rounded coordinates for bounding boxes. For example, the bounding box for a 16×16 collision mask would be generated from…
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…
In this series, we’ll see how to code a platformer engine in GameMaker Studio 2. It’s mainly for low resolution games but it can be tweaked to either simulate fluid, hi-res movement or to accomodate optimized collision code for hi-res games. This engine It will include pixel perfect movement slopes moving platforms jump through platforms…
