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Even better (high speed) moving platforms

May 12, 2020April 29, 2020 by Nikles

High speed moving platforms present us with an issue. Let’s see how to fix them and obtain bulletproof movement and collisions.

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Categories GameMaker Tutorials Tags Engine, GameMaker, GML, Moving Platforms, Platformer, Platformer Engine Series 12 Comments

Better moving platforms

April 29, 2020April 24, 2020 by Nikles

This article is about better moving platforms in GameMaker which can carry multiple objects without lags and with pixel perfect collisions.

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Categories GameMaker Tutorials Tags Engine, GameMaker, GML, Moving Platforms, Platformer, Platformer Engine Series 7 Comments

Moving Platforms – Horizontal and Vertical

April 29, 2020April 12, 2020 by Nikles

Here’s how to code vertical and horizontal moving platforms in GameMaker Studio 2.

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Categories GameMaker Tutorials Tags Engine, GameMaker, GML, Moving Platforms, Platformer, Platformer Engine Series 6 Comments

Jump through / one way platforms

April 29, 2020December 27, 2019 by Nikles
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In this article we’ll see how to implement jump through / one way platforms. If you remember from my previous article, we kept a separate object hierarchy for jump through …

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How to code a platformer engine

April 29, 2020December 23, 2019 by Nikles
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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, …

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My Game Development setup

August 19, 2017May 6, 2016 by Nikles
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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 …

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