Even better (high speed) moving platforms
High speed moving platforms present us with an issue. Let’s see how to fix them and obtain bulletproof movement and collisions.
Better moving platforms
This article is about better moving platforms in GameMaker which can carry multiple objects without lags and with pixel perfect collisions.
Moving Platforms – Horizontal and Vertical
Here’s how to code vertical and horizontal moving platforms in GameMaker Studio 2.
Jump through / one way platforms
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 / one way platforms. That’s because we use them differently in our collision checking; had we made them children of solid objects, we would have…
How to code a platformer engine
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, hi-res movement or to accomodate optimized collision code for hi-res games. This engine It will include pixel perfect movement slopes moving platforms jump through platforms…
Screen Tearing / Wavy Effect in GameMaker Studio 2 (using Surfaces)
After playing Environmental Station Alpha, I decided I wanted to implement the screen tearing effect Hempuli is using in his game. I didn’t know how he achieved it so I had to start from scratch and think about different approaches. Knowing nothing about shaders, I was left with surfaces. I jotted down some code and…
Guide to develop low resolution 2D platformers with smooth movement and pixel perfect collisions in GameMaker Studio 2 (with slopes)
This guide explores the ins and outs of making low resolution 2D Platformers with both pixel perfect, precise collisions (with slopes) and sub-pixel, smooth sprite movements. Turns out you CAN have smooth low res graphics.
Advanced Animation Control in GameMaker Studio 2 – Method 1
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).
How I Scale Fuzeboy Resolution on Mobile and Desktop Devices
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…
Basic Platformer Mechanics in GameMaker: Studio
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.