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Week 25 - Cat scratches

This week in RPG land, Lulu has learned to scratch the heck out of our bouncy slime foes.

Mreow!

The combat works very (very) similarly to the setup used for my Melee attacks video. With the same structure t...

Week 24 - Slimes & States

We've got some slime critters bouncing around the Action RPG now.

It took me longer than it should have to decide on how exactly I wanted to structure "Enemies" but I'm happy with where I ended up. As I've talked about2019-06-10 16:46:51 +0000 UTC View Post

NGF Build for $20 supporters

All currently paid-up $20 folk should now have received a link to the PokeyPoke build demo'd at NGF. Let me know if you have any problems, and feel free to use this thread to discuss the build or give feedback!

(Or also ask questions about how any of it was done?)

-S

[Progress] Slimes

Is any serious action RPG complete without them? I figure we might do something mechanically similar to Zelda ChuChus, in that different colour slimes 'drop' different item types.

Week 23 - PokeyPoke, NGF, etc

Hello everybody! Last week was... quite a week!

Norwich Games Festival + PokeyPoke

I spent most of last week and the weekend down in Norwich for NGF. I was there for two reasons:

• Firstly to do my regular GameMaker workshop with fellow dev Tommy Thompson (AI in Games on YouTube + Sure Footing on Steam). We take a bunch of screaming kids (and parents) and ...
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Week 21 - ARPG Updates (Video!)

Decided to wrap together some updates on where I'm at with the ARPG and some decisions I'm making on it going forward into a short video. This way helping to keep the YouTube viewers as up to date as the people here. I'll be putting it out to subscribers on Friday in time with my regular livestream. 2019-05-21 17:14:58 +0000 UTC View Post

Week 19 - Too Many .yyps

So my secret work on Another Perspective is largely done for the time being, but NGF is rapidly approaching and I need to get PokeyPoke back to some sort of demo-able state for the end of the month. I think I've said before that I'd agreed to tackle way too much stuff this month, but previously in kind of a foreboding way...

Week 18 - The long haul continues.

Ludum Dare was as fun and exhausting as it always is. I was knocked for six on Monday but ended up with a neat... thing. It's not one of my best entries in my opinion and was pretty poorly scoped for the time....

Patron Twitch overlay connection!

Hellooo! I spent most of today pulling my hair out trying to make something work that I've wanted for ages and finally stumbled upon a half-baked but workable solution.

If you access the link posted above it will take you to a patron only post on my website. Once you authenticate, you'll find a link to a google sheet. You can add your twitch name to this sheet and my stream overlay will b...

LD44 this weekend!

Yeah that snuck up on me in a big way! It's been Too Long since I did one of these so this weekend it's stream time!

For the uninformed I'll be making a game solo in 48 hours for ldjam.com along with thousands of others. I encourage you to take part if you haven't before! After the games are done we all play and rate one another games. There's no prize other than having made a Thing.

Week 17 - Carrying Things

Is tougher than it sounds.

There's not many "Clean" ways to handle to carrying of objects. Not the data part, so much as the visual. As you can see from the gif above there's work to be done, the bomb doesn't quite align itself with the walk animation and teleports through the lift animation. The...

Week 16 - Precision with object IDs

Last Friday we were streaming a bit of work on the action RPG series. In doing so I decided to see how quickly I could throw together a tutorial on something that was asked about in the chat. Ended up with this video. Don't get too used to this. It's not how I select topics but I did find it a quick and useful stopga...

Heart "Fractions" - Live Mini-tutorial

I recorded this while streaming today cos someone asked about it and I figured I could do it quickly. Something thrown together while grinding away on the RPG stuff. Only put together lightning fast so sorry for skipping the credits voice over on this one. 

Enjoy!

Week 15 - Grinds and distractions

So towards the end of last week you'll notice I got a bit distracted. I think it's worth me reminding YouTube I'm still alive and creating stuff while working on this RPG and I think the update video was worth doing an...

GML Updates, deep dive with Lazyeye

I put probably more time into this than I needed to and it took way too long to encode. But I think it came out pretty well! Topic timestamps are in the pinned comment on YT.

-S

Mini Update - GML Changes in 2019

Some of you might have already seen this blog post by YoYo Games on some new changes coming to Game Maker Language in 2019. 

It includes a vast number of highly requested features many coders are very, very excited about. Methods, Chained Accessors, Lightweight Objects and more. 

Week 14 - Work In, Work Out

So I've recently cleared up a bit of the ever growing to do list. The BenQ review is done (and I think it came out pretty well!). Me and Emma have signed a whole bunch of solicitor paperwork for our house purchase and our mortgage application is underway (all the fingers crossed on that one.). I used a bit of last week to add a few things to PokeyPoke, not least of which is the lighting engine ...

It's that Monitor I was talking about!

This ticks one thing off my mad march/april to do list. Going to be livestreaming on twitch in a little bit and we'll do a proper weekly update on Monday. 

Week 12 - An announcement!

First of all, I'm sorry  this update comes late in the week. I try always to write these on Mondays and that hasn't changed. 

What has changed though, is that after an emotional whirlwind of a week me and my partner are now buying a house together. There's a lot to be sorted out still and nothing is yet final but so far everything is looking good. Sick of paying someone else's m...

Action RPG YouTube "Announcement"

This is all just stuff you guys already know, nothing too exciting here sorry! It's mostly for the YouTube audience to keep them up to date but I figured I should still post most if not alll videos here for completeness reasons.  =)

Week 11 - RPG Update: Text boxes

Text boxes have been a bit of looming elephant in the room of the action RPG series. It's a topic that's very necessary to cover for the genre, it's one that takes up a lot of time even at a basic level, but also it's something that you can spend close to infinite time working on to make as modular as possible. It's honestly addictive to do so. It's one of those systems that's fun and also ...