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For when you want to see a big ol' list of what I've been doing.
SundialBuild a day/night cycle for your game visually, right inside GameMaker, without code!
Statement 2 releasedUpdated transitions, added more flexible exit locks and rebuilds Statement Lens.
Catalyst 2 releasedStatistics grew into Resources, Flows, Effects and reactive gameplay data.
FateWeighted random drops for when randomness is just a little bit too random.
QuillGM sucks at text input. Quill fixes that.
WhisperA storylet engine that chooses the right dialogue for the right moment in your game!
- Catalyst
Stats, resources and effects that are easy to make and modify but with a lot of hidden depth (kinda like an iceberg!)
PulseDecouple to your hearts content, making communication between different objects and code chunks robust and simple.
- Statement
States simply made to be simple (and yet, somehow containing a lot of advanced machinery when you need it).
- Mapping Pixel Art for 3D Lighting
Draw the maps needed to light pixel art in 3D.
- How to Use Signals in Game Dev
Decouple GameMaker systems with signals.
- How to (Comfortably) Deal with Modifiable Stats in RPGs (and other genres)
Build flexible, modifiable RPG statistics.
- Recounting A Successful Failure (The Spaceslingers Post-Mortem)
What Spaceslingers taught me after launch.
- Procedural Generation in GMS #7: To Perturb A Room (Dungeon Generation)
In this entry, we learn about perturbing rooms to generate a dungeon layout!
- Procedural Generation in GMS #6: A* Is Born (Pathfinding's Greatest Hits)
In this entry we explore the fascinating world of pathfinding, culminating in a fully...
- Procedural Generation in GMS #5: A Flood of Fills
In this entry, we learn how a little bit of recursion can make some big waves with the...
- Procedural Generation in GMS #4: Connecting the Dots with Bresenham's
In this entry, we learn how to use Bresenham's line algorithm to connect two points...
- Procedural Generation in GMS #3: Creating Sweet Maps with Cellular Automata
In this entry, we dive into the fascinating world of map generation using Cellular...
- Procedural Generation in GMS #2: Learning the Basics
In the second entry in the series, we learn about the data structures we will be using...
- Procedural Generation in GMS #1: An Introduction
This is the first entry in a series about creating procedurally generated content...
- Generating Maps (Bonus Plug and Play Map Generation Code Inside)
Four practical procedural map generators.
- A Pre-Post-Mortem About Marketing
Five hard earned lessons I learned about marketing while making Spaceslingers for $0...
- Creating Sweet Particle Effects in GMS2
Learn how to create the wormhole particle effects in Spaceslingers, along with a bunch...