This post is outdated This post strictly refers to GM:S 1.4 and not GameMaker Studio 2.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…
I rarely post about Windows tips and tricks but this one kind of saved my day, especially because drag and drop and middle click are vital features in the GameMaker Studio workflow. YMMVYour mileage may vary. This is not guaranteed to work but worked for me twice (before AND after the Windows 10 Creators Update)….
As some of you might know, Fuzeboy’s project scope changed considerably during its development. There’s been an overhaul of features, specifications, goals and deadlines. Originally thought to be a quick mobile only game, we then shifted our vision a bit to make it playable on desktops as well; now we decided to abandon the mobile…
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).
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…
Yet another official announcement: Fuzeboy is now being rewritten in GameMaker Studio 2. After getting familiar with the new UI and the new GML functionalities, I’ve realized it made little to no sense at all to keep using GM:S 1.x. I’m already rewriting Fuzeboy from scratch so I might just use the new, improved IDE….
