Today I made my first contribution to the opengameart.org website. It’s a simple edit of Michele “Buch” Bucelli’s sci-fi interior tileset. I adapted it to be used in GameMaker Studio 2 with the 47-tiles autotile feature (I needed it for a personal project of mine). I’ve also opened a Patreon page. You can directly support my…
Much has been written about resolution scaling in pixel art games. It usually comes down to this simplistic rule: always resize 2D games by integer values (2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, etc) so pixel art will always look correct. I wrote that myself; to make a good looking low-res pixel art game on modern monitors, you should…
This article will guide you through the setup of a Xubuntu 16.04 LTS Virtual Machine to test, compile and run your GameMaker Studio 2 projects on Linux. I’m choosing Xubuntu instead of Ubuntu simply because Xubuntu is less resource hungry (and my notebook is 5 years old I got a new notebook btw). The resulting…
