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Platformer Engine Series

Moving platform bug at high speed
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Even better (high speed) moving platforms

ByNikles April 29, 2020May 12, 2020

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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Better moving platforms
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Better moving platforms

ByNikles April 24, 2020April 29, 2020

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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Moving Platforms – Horizontal and Vertical
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Moving Platforms – Horizontal and Vertical

ByNikles April 12, 2020April 29, 2020

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

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Jump through / one way platforms
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Jump through / one way platforms

ByNikles December 27, 2019April 29, 2020

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…

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2D Platformer in GameMaker Studio 2
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How to code a platformer engine

ByNikles December 23, 2019April 29, 2020

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…

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