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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…

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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…

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My Game Development setup

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…