This post is outdated This post strictly refers to GM:S 1.4 and not GameMaker Studio 2. I also do not recommend doing this upscaling; using surfaces, you might be able to keep very low resolution asset, while still being able to draw smooth movement with subpixel precision. For more info: Guide to develop low resolution…
I recently got into the (bad) habit of using just one single controller object for my games. It manages everything from input to video. The logic behind this was that the less objects GameMaker has to manage, the less resources it will use. In principle that’s true. In reality, switching from 5-6 controllers down to…
When you try to import multiple images into a single sprite in GameMaker Studio 2, you could end up with unexpected results. Specifically, if the images have different sizes (width and height), the sprite size will be equal to that of the largest image, but all the other images will be imported stretched to fill…
Let’s say that you have a sprite with a complex animation (i.e. variable frame rate). As you can see from the following image, each frame will play at a specific time (I use a simple Photoshop script to export the frames, I’ll write an article about it later).
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…
It’s a well known fact that GameMaker: Studio 1.4 follows this order of events: Create Event of each instance Instance Creation Code of each instance Game Start Event (this will only be run in the very first room of the game) Room Creation Code Room Start Event of all instances You can set the order…
Fuzeboy’s still in development so it’s only natural that sometimes I take time to rewrite stuff, to fix things, to experiment and so on. We try, we break, we fix, we extend, we change. We evolve. One issue we faced from the start, is the game resolution. What we knew was that we wanted pixel…
As I said in a previous post about my platformer engine (the one I’m working on for Fuzeboy), I’m using Zack Bell‘s code as a base. Recently I started to look into ways to optimize such code without losing the functionality (slopes are a big feature of that simple collision/movement code). And as someone once told…
I’m fond of platformers. It’s only natural that I spent the past year studying and refining platformer engines for GameMaker: Studio. Here’s what I actually use for my engine.
