https://refreshertowel.com/ Games, GameMaker libraries, tutorials, writing, and workshop updates. https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/sundial/ https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/sundial/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Library Build a day/night cycle for your game visually, right inside GameMaker, without code! https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/statement/ https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/statement/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:24:00 GMT Release Updated transitions, added more flexible exit locks and rebuilds Statement Lens. https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/catalyst/ https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/catalyst/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:03:00 GMT Release Statistics grew into Resources, Flows, Effects and reactive gameplay data. https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/fate/ https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/fate/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Library Weighted random drops for when randomness is just a little bit too random. https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/quill/ https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/quill/ Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Library GM sucks at text input. Quill fixes that. https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/whisper/ https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/whisper/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Library A storylet engine that chooses the right dialogue for the right moment in your game! https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/catalyst/ https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/catalyst/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Library Stats, resources and effects that are easy to make and modify but with a lot of hidden depth (kinda like an iceberg!) https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/pulse/ https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/pulse/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Library Decouple to your hearts content, making communication between different objects and code chunks robust and simple. https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/statement/ https://refreshertowel.com/libraries/statement/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Library States simply made to be simple (and yet, somehow containing a lot of advanced machinery when you need it). https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/mapping-pixel-art-for-3d-lighting/ https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/mapping-pixel-art-for-3d-lighting/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Tutorial Draw the maps needed to light pixel art in 3D. https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/how-to-use-signals-in-game-dev/ https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/how-to-use-signals-in-game-dev/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT Tutorial Decouple GameMaker systems with signals. https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/how-to-comfortably-deal-with-modifiable-stats/ https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/how-to-comfortably-deal-with-modifiable-stats/ Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT Tutorial Build flexible, modifiable RPG statistics. https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/recounting-a-successful-failure-the-spaceslingers-post-mortem/ https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/recounting-a-successful-failure-the-spaceslingers-post-mortem/ Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT Tutorial What Spaceslingers taught me after launch. https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/procedural-generation-7-to-perturb-a-room-dungeon-generation/ https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/procedural-generation-7-to-perturb-a-room-dungeon-generation/ Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT Tutorial In this entry, we learn about perturbing rooms to generate a dungeon layout! https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/procedural-generation-in-gms-6-a-is-born-pathfindings-greatest-hits/ https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/procedural-generation-in-gms-6-a-is-born-pathfindings-greatest-hits/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT Tutorial In this entry we explore the fascinating world of pathfinding, culminating in a fully... https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/procedural-generation-in-gms-5-a-flood-of-fills/ https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/procedural-generation-in-gms-5-a-flood-of-fills/ Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT Tutorial In this entry, we learn how a little bit of recursion can make some big waves with the... https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/procedural-generation-in-gms-4-connecting-the-dots-with-bresenhams/ https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/procedural-generation-in-gms-4-connecting-the-dots-with-bresenhams/ Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT Tutorial In this entry, we learn how to use Bresenham's line algorithm to connect two points... https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/procedural-generation-in-gms-3-cellular-automata/ https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/procedural-generation-in-gms-3-cellular-automata/ Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT Tutorial In this entry, we dive into the fascinating world of map generation using Cellular... https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/procedural-generation-in-gml-2-learning-the-basics/ https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/procedural-generation-in-gml-2-learning-the-basics/ Sat, 16 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT Tutorial In the second entry in the series, we learn about the data structures we will be using... https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/procedural-generation-in-gml-1-an-introduction/ https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/procedural-generation-in-gml-1-an-introduction/ Wed, 30 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT Tutorial This is the first entry in a series about creating procedurally generated content... https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/generating-maps-bonus-plug-and-play-map-generation-code-inside/ https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/generating-maps-bonus-plug-and-play-map-generation-code-inside/ Tue, 15 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT Tutorial Four practical procedural map generators. https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/marketing-pre-post-mortem/ https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/marketing-pre-post-mortem/ Mon, 23 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT Tutorial Five hard earned lessons I learned about marketing while making Spaceslingers for $0... https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/tutorial-particle-effects-in-gml/ https://refreshertowel.com/tutorials/tutorial-particle-effects-in-gml/ Tue, 04 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT Tutorial Learn how to create the wormhole particle effects in Spaceslingers, along with a bunch...