🔴Game Maker Studio 2 | Basics - Tileset essentials 1up Indie 2026-09-22 | 🔴Game Maker Studio 2 | Basics - Tileset essentials
The king is dead, long live the king [GameMaker Update 2023.11] 1up Indie 2023-12-07 | The newest patch V2023.11 comes with some new features. The biggest is the drop shadow effect on any layer and effects (outline, glow,, shadow) is now available in the sequence editor fonts.Not much to say, some minor improvements and finishing the "old" GameMaker to be replaced by the "new" GameMaker in March (update 2024.2).Note:As always I recommend to not instantly update to the new version and wait until they hotfix this update in about a week or two. I had no issues but just installed and ran it. So your guess is as good as mine.Tldr:- drop shadow on layers effect- sdf font effects in sequences- more typed references- new functionsOffical blog and release notes:gamemaker.io/en/blog/release-2023-11👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 The newest GameMaker updated 2023.11 has dropped 1:04 Shadow effect on layers2:03 Font effects in Sequences3:24 Change log in Github
Gamemaker Roadmap 2024 1up Indie 2023-12-05 | GameMaker has updated their roamap for 2024 and now we can expect in April/May their new ide updates. The "new" GameMaker will be then released in april next year, so you there is nothing really interesting happening from now to till then.Tldr:- Free Tier: Get all updates for free- Wait until April for commercial users Roadmap 2024:github.com/orgs/YoYoGames/projects/13/views/1?pane=info👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)
Gamemaker Studio 3 - Pricing + Better Free version 1up Indie 2023-11-22 | News have come yesterday on how GameMaker moves forward. By the start of the next month the we will get the last update on GameMaker for everybody that has the old perpetual licence. After that a new runtime is being set and if you want to use it commercially you need a new perpetual licence under the Professional Tier or if you need to have exports for consoles the more expensive Enterprise Tier subscription.What did change?The new Free Tier is an upgrade because now you can export to all platforms except consoles. That means you are no longer locked in the GameMaker file format which allows you to create demos or full games and share it in a playable version with everybody. The only restriction is that you cannot use it commercially (sell it or use for commercial purposes).The indie subscription (and the others ones) is gone and being replaced by a one time license for deskop, mobile and Web exports. This is a good move because the majority prefers to buy a software and keep it. The downside, if there is that the Free Tier does allow the same exports aswell, so if you are not using GameMaker commerically, there is no need to buy it. For people already having invested in the old subscriptions, you get discounts/a reduction of the set price of the Professional/Enterprise Tier.So should you get it the Professional Tier?I would wait and see if it makes sense for you, personally I will stick for now on the last update and see if transition makes sense. In the futuer I will get the Professional license anyway, but not now (maybe on a discount). I have a subscription running, what happens now?The old subscriptions as far as I understand will cease to exists/run out and you get a discount of payed money towards the new payed Tiers.Tldr:- Free Tier: Has best of all worlds, exports now free!- Professional Tier: Like the old perpetual licences, buy once keep the licence and sell your games- Enterprise Tier: Only interesting for developer teams or developers that really need to export their games to consoles// yes it is satireOffical blog and release notes:gamemaker.io/en/gethelp.gamemaker.io/hc/en-us/articles/14954144182941github.com/orgs/YoYoGames/projects/13/views/1👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 The newest GameMaker pricing/tier roadmap0:31 Tldr2:12 New and old GameMaker3:42 New Free Tier5:25 Professional Tier6:38 Should you update to the new runtime7:18 Enterprise Tier8:12 What happens for current/old subscribers?
Some really good new features [GameMaker Update 2023.8] 1up Indie 2023-09-18 | The newest patch V2023.8 comes with some good new features. The biggest and best is tile(set) collisions aswell as effects on fonts which were highly requested features. Now you can add multiple objects or tilesets to all collision scripts (place_meeting, collision_rectangle etc.) which is making collisions more convenient aswell tileset collisions a more reliable alternative to instance collision. YoYo Games added effects like glow, outline and shadow to fonts, a sound compressor ( audio's dynamic range, loudest/quietest ajusting), a convenient bug report and more features for the debug overlay where you can have a console as well as customize your own debug window for testing during runtime.Note:There have been some issues with the newest update with particle crashing the ide, but they were only happing to the HTML5 runtime. Particles by code or with the particleSystem asset class seem to work as usual for windows as a target platform (self tested, works fine).Tldr:- tile and multiple collisions on one line- draw font with outline, glow and shadow (SDF on!)- delay on particleSystem assets- more debug options with a console and custom window- sound compressor- easy and convenient bug report and github error siteOffical blog and release notes:gamemaker.io/de/blog/release-2023-8gms.yoyogames.com/ReleaseNotes.html👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 The newest GameMaker updated 2023.8 has dropped 0:24 Tileset added on all collision scripts2:32 Effects on fonts3:42 Delay on particleSystems4:59 Bug report system6:06 More debug functionality7:24 Audio effect - Compressor8:12 Issues on particles with HTML5, game shown: Broforce
Homing Rocket in 2 lines [Game Maker | Basics] 1up Indie 2023-08-30 | This basics video tutorial shows you how homing can work in GameMaker Studio with 2 lines of code. There will be a follow up video on a homing rocket barrage like you see in games like Armored Core, but the cheap man's 2D version.I got the inspiration from Ellaris who is a discord member, so thanks for the idea buddy! The 2 lines are very easy to do and work more or less but are a building block to advance this concept.First we need to create the rocket and give it an inital speed, direction and angle to start of with and gradually change the flying direction.So what are those 2 lines? Well, we add constantly in the step event of each rocket to it a value that gradually ("delayed") turns towards it's target position. For that we need the current direction of the rocket and the perfect direction from the rocket to the target (which we get by the rocket's x,y and the targets x,y and get it by point direction). Then we get the resulting angle difference and use sign to clamp the result to 0,1,-1. That added to the current direction turns the rocket towards the the target, but we can use a fixed value to increase/decrease the turning around speed to our liking. Then we set the new direction to the image angle so that visuall it looks sound aswell. That's it!The code if found as usual in the comment section.🚧 For the future: There will be follow up video that shows how to visually advance this core setup to an homing missile barrage👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will do0:59 Specific hit animation (elemental, weapon etc.)1:11 The 2 lines that steer the rocket2:28 When the rocket hits an enemy2:45 Player setup, input and spawning a rocket5:13 What the 2 lines mean in detail
Sound in video Games + use in GameMaker 1up Indie 2023-08-15 | This video is an updated basics video about how to use sound in general for video games and in GameMaker. I wanted to do a comprehesive new video, to fill in the blanks and give you a solid start and minimal use case, as a basic a guide.Content: 1. What music and sound effects mean in video games (music/sfx theory), 2:17 2. How to setup sound files before using them in gamemaker or any other engine, best practise 6:14 3+.4 How to play sounds in GM, 7:54 + 12:58 1. The concept is fast and easily explained. Most of this know you instinctivly. Good music/sound can make or break a game. As an industry standard developers seperate music and sound effects each in one group each. There can be sub groups (ingame sfx, ui sfx etc.) but let's keep it simple.How are music files stored? Generally music files are being stored/saved in the .wave or .mp3 or .ogg format, which most programms can use. As a general rule it is best practise to use .wave for small sound effects that are many and .mp3 or .ogg for your larger music files. Imagine the how much of compression and quality loss you have to do to reduce it file size overall.What is music in video games?Music resembles the tone/feeling of the current level/environment and is being looped without the player having any direct effect on that. It gives context to the current place we as the player are in.What are sound effects (sfx) in video games?Sound effects on the other hand are short tunes or jingles that indicated something is happening and underline the video game experience. Their main function is give the player accustic information about the gameplay (feedback) Fancy not so useful trivia! If you want to be super fancy, you can use terms like diagetic and non diagetic. In a nutshell, diagetic means means what characters in movies/games can hear in their environment (footsteps, wind, others talking) and non diagetic, what the audience (yes you) can hear2. Setup sound files and use tools like AudacityThis is optional but, you can use the free software Audacity to export you sound files into other format + compression/quality levels and compare each sound in order to normalize them into one harmonious "mold".3. How to use sound files in GameMakerYou sound files are resources that you have to create and setup on the right side, where the asset panel is.If you want to play a sound file you can use the audio_play_sound function.👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)// game shown - Batbarian and Heros of Hammerwatch CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 How sound is being used in video games and in GameMaker0:20 Subscribe0:34 Time stamps for each chapter2:17 What music and sound effects mean in video games2:45 How to setup sound files7:54 How to play sounds in GameMaker12:56 Additonal things you can do in GameMaker
Turbo Overkill, Incision, Blood West [Lazy reviews] 1up Indie 2023-05-26 | Turbo Overkill (early access): 9 of 10Developer: Trigger Happy Turbo Overkill is a fast paced boomer shooter with low pixel graphics. The games has it all, fast responsive controls, actually good weapons, a cool protagonist that has a chain saw leg which can be used for sliding through the levels and a small but diverse upgrade system for skills and weapons. Story:In Turbo Overkill you are a kind of a mercenary which has a job to take down an evil ai corrupting this world. Gameplay:Enemies are cool looking and plenty to be gunned down. Nothing really new you haven't seen before but fighting them feels most of the time very fair and are being countered by your dashes, double jumps, wall jumping, even a hook and of course a lot of weapons with alternative fire modes that make the game a joy to play. You are always in fast combat or exploring your surrounding for secret areas of places you are not supposed to be. Sound and music are very decend and complement the game.Graphics:If you are expecting a graphical masterpieces, then this game won't win your heart.My own opinion:For me personally Turbo Overkill was a pleasant suprise. All was very polished (gameplay, level layouts, story, music). Hands down Turbo Overkill is one of the best games played this year so far. It is a very well done boomer shooter with high octange gameplay. Incision (early access): 7 of 10Developer: SmoothbrainIncision is a very gory super pixelated first person shooter that does what good old boomer shooters do.If you like simplistic games like the old Quake, Blood, you will feel right at home here.Story:You are thrown in an apocalyptic horror world after an unknow entity invaded the earth and you see a merging of living beings with unorganic matter in the environment. In the game you can find more light story exposition with some short text in hidden areas or through environmental storytelling. This is a neat way to setup a minimal context to the world after the invasion, where you can find some infos about some weird cults and the player.Gameplay:The gameplay is very straight forward with countless of enemies and a standard weapon roster which you have seen countless times in other fps games. Same goes for the horror enemies that are very vanilla in this regard aswell. It is nothing fancy but it does play very satisfying. Sound and music are on a high level and carry the game's creepyness well.Graphics:Graphics can be for pursists a turn off. There is currently no way to increas gamma or turn of the dither effect. Since all is a bit mushed, it did happen quite a lot of times that I didn't see enemies close by. My own opinion:All in all Incision is an enjoyable fps that doesn't innovate but sticks to what used to be a gold standard. I did enjoy the creepy levels, gun play, the monsters and played the early access to it's end.Blood West (early access): 8 of 10Developer: HyperStangeBlood West is a survival stealth shooter where ammo is sparse and every enemy can almost oneshot you.Story:You play as an arisen being dead to investigate the lands which is being overrun by monsters and that suffers from a curse.Gameplay:What is very interesting about this game is it's stealth and death/curse system, which punishes you very fast if you mess up. That gave me Demon Souls vibes of difficulty which is love and hate relationship that kept me playing this game. Here you have to manage not being spotted, manage a really small inventory and never having enough ammo. If you don't hit the enemy with your guns in the head, well you pretty much wasted this bullet since it does minimal damage. This system does reward patient and tactical players. You can try gun and run but that is very hard to pull off here. Graphics:Graphics and enemy ai are on the lower spectrum.My own opinion:Overall gameplay was that satisfying to explore every dark corner for some sweet loot.Disclaimer: I requested the keys for all games, which I got. I didn't get any money, sponsorship nor do I have any affiliation with the developers/publishers. But thanks for giving these gems to me!👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)0:00 Intro 0:24 Turbo Overkill review2:49 Incision review5:14 Blood West review
🔴Almost light system - The very easy way [GameMaker | Vfx] 1up Indie 2023-05-19 | This basics video tutorial shows you how to create an almost light system in GameMaker in a few minutes.The idea is quite easy. You want to enhance your game by light but want to make it without much hassle. You can have an alternative way where you tint all layers below with the tint fx. Then you place on one instance layer all your light instances. To this layer you set a blendmode fx with the blendmode add which looks smoother then the default one. Also you ajust the image_alpha of the light instances until the mix of light and the tint look good. Optionally you can also fluctuate all light instances by changing the image_xscale/image_yscale constantly to give the light a bit more realistic flicker. That's it! Trivia: The default (and more complictated) way to create is to not do additive blending but create a surface, draw a black transparent rectangle and poke through it with light drawing which "erases" parts of the black surface/black rectangle.Light with surfaces found here:youtu.be/7GFggYDglmoTldr: 1. Use fx layer and tint it with gray color,2. Place on one instance layer all light instances3. Set this instance layer with fx blendmode add4. Set the alpha of the light object to a harmonic value👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will do, blend light images on a dark tint0:48 Subscribe0:59 Context on how it works2:10 Use fx layer and tint all below with a gray color2:45 Place on one instance layer all light instances3:40 Set the alpha of the light object to a harmonic value4:18 Set this instance layer with fx blendmode add
GamerMaker 2023 [explained] - quick and dirty 1up Indie 2023-05-14 | This video is a compressed version of GameMaker's update plans and their offical video. Not all things are covered, because I don't want to speculate or some content was not relevant for most people.1. Current state which we have right now: - particle editor, feather, move and collide, sdf fonts, ide performance enhancment, restructuring the ide, audio effect2. Want to meet the YoYo Games team?- meetups meetup.com/de-DE/pro/gamemaker- maybe in Gamescon exhibition in Cologne https://www.gamescom.de/3. GameMaker bundle assets will become free in the future? gamemaker.io/en/bundles4. Convert from 3D into 2D tool:forum.gamemaker.io/index.php?threads/new-3d-2d-tool-beta-release.978665. New runtime of GameMaker Gradual moving from gms2 to the new runtime6. Svg support for GameMaker.svg format will be supported in the future, which is great for mobile developers7. New Code editorThe new optional code editor that hold all objects and their events in drop down tab8. New prefab systemPredefined bundle of assets that are outside GameMaker libraries/packages9. Updating the GameMaker market place10. Delaying multiplayer support/beta to next year9. More modding/extension/plugin support10. Plans for ai system in GameMaker11. Ide compiler order changed with more modular sub systems (libraries/packages/3rd party) in between12. sdr/hdr rendering, which enhances the quality of rendering (contrast between brightest and darkest parts of an image)Article here:gamemaker.io/en/blog/gamemaker-update-2023Full offical YoYo Games video here:youtube.com/watch?v=uF5q_Y0NwJs👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 Introduction0:28 1. The current state of GameMaker0:57 2. Want to meet the YoYo Games team?2:00 3. GameMaker bundle assets will become free in the future?2:40 4. Convert from 3D into 2D tool, game shown Dead Cells3:20 5. New runtime of GameMaker3:42 6. Svg support in GameMaker4:36 7. New Code editor5:02 8. New prefab system6:10 9. Updating the GameMaker market place6:40 10. Delaying multiplayer support/beta to next year
Bitmap/Sprite fonts - How to use [Game Maker | Basics] 1up Indie 2023-04-19 | This basics video tutorial shows you how to use sprites as a font in GameMaker.The idea is quite easy. You have a cool looking font but it is an image. To use the is as a normal font you need to a few things. 1st you need to import it into GameMaker and slice it up as single images (control + I) 2nd you need to tell GameMaker with font_add_sprite_ext that you want to use this sprite as a font and give GameMaker the instructions what each character means (represents). Here you have a string (mapstring) with all the characters you use sprite as sprite and the corresponding character that it is representing. 3rd you need to store the newly created font ("asset") into a variable and set with draw_set_font this spritefont to be used. That's it! Trivia: GameMaker once your export/run your game takes your used normal fonts and converts them into glyphs (images), which is the same as the sprite font and you can see both in the texture page.Tldr: 1. import sprite font,2. set a mindmap string what each image means3. store and set it to be usedCool font found here, if used please credit!opengameart.org/content/superpowers-assets-bitmap-fonts👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will do, use sprites as a font0:46 Subscribe0:55 Context and example of normal font use2:17 Find a good looking sprite/bitmap font2:58 Import sprite font5:39 Add the font as a useable font into GameMaker5:02 Have string (mapstring) that gives the images meaning7:09 Set the sprite font to proportional drawing or not and the distance between each image/glyph7:37 Store the added sprite font into a variable to be set and used
New glow/bloom effect - Beautiful resource gobbler [GameMaker beta] 1up Indie 2023-04-15 | The newest upcoming features can be checked out in the 2023.4 beta for everybody. There are more bling bling features this time and they added the glow/bloom effect, which is one of my most requested features. A big thank you from my side to the YoYo Games team who added this feature! Besides that you have more visual effects like cloud that generates... clouds. A mask visual effect that allows overlaying with mask sprites (this one can be very powerful). Additional we got another blurr effect and blend modes can be now set via the visual effects on a layer or global. Small but not to be overlooked features are that you now can do specific cleans for your code, audio and graphics if you wish for faster builds. And last but not least they did add an asynchronous event for audio playback end.Note: Please use glow/bloom in moderation since it quite taxing for every graphics cardTldr:- Blooooooom- Bloom- more bloom- yes, I love bloom Offical beta release notes:gms.yoyogames.com/release-notes-runtime-NuBeta.html👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 The new 2023.4 beta has been released00:20 Bloom/glow has been added as an effect01:30 New specifc clean options additional to the vanilla global clean01:52 New asynchronous event for audio files02:00 New bloom/glow effect under the hood03:25 New cloud effect04:29 New recursive blurr effect05:22 New mask effect, use mask image to overlay something06:32 New blend effects, change blend modes via effects
Finding things - How to [Game Maker | Basics] 1up Indie 2023-04-08 | This basics video tutorial shows you how to search/query for your asset, code or references in GameMaker.Image coming back to an project that you haven't touched for months and you want to find asset and specifc code pieces. Here you can use multiple ways to get to find your assets on the right side or the variables, sprites, instances being referenced/used on the left side. The assets on the left side you can search with the search bar by name and by type or you can check out the most recend used assets to instantly jump to those.The reference/use of variables, sprites, instances in code on the left side is restricted to asset types with code that you can search through. The easiest is to go into the event/script/shader and press control and F, where you can search and replace that search/query of the word. If you want to enlarge your scope you can also press control and shift and F to search all assets (or the selected types) and jump to those. Here you will have a popup of the search console giving you a list to get more informations. Or you can press F3 on the word in code and it will jump to where it is being used.Tldr: seach and find, control + shift + F, jump where it is used F3 (control T)👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will do, find assets/references in your project0:32 Spoiler0:41 Finding asset by name or recend use on the right side0:55 Finding in code assets/variables/references in use1:25 Finding asset by name with the search bar 1:56 Finding asset by name by quick access with recent2:28 Finding in code assets/variables/references in use with control and F3:34 Finding in code assets/variables/references in use globally with control and shift and F4:45 Finding in code assets/variables/references in use with F3
Hexgon cells - How to draw [Game Maker | Basics] 1up Indie 2023-03-13 | This basics video tutorial shows you how to setup hexagon cells in GameMaker.Hexagon cells are pretty popular in strategy games and can make each cell look fancy. Drawing/placing these cells can be challenging because their shape is not as straight forwards as rectangles. So what you need to understand here is that you have to place them correctly near to each other. Each horizontal line of cells is a sum of the cell width or the sum of a cell width plus half. The height is bit wonky also, since you cannot take the full height nor the half. Tldr: It is complicated, not too much but a bit👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will do, hexagon cells/shapes0:38 Subscribe0:55 How hexagon shapes stick to each other3:55 Quick setup, a spawner creates all hexagonal instances4:50 Double repeat loop to add cells vertically and horizontally5:30 Create each time a loop ends a hexagon instance5:48 Set xx and yy to place the instances in their correct spot7:16 Setting xx to with the width of a cell7:52 Nullifying the iterated hor_ADD values to create a new row8:17 Setting yy to with the height of a cell8:37 Adapting the xx to snap correctly horizontally9:10 Correcting the nullifyed xx values
🔴Debris/rubble particles - Upgrade your flat explosions [GameMaker | Vfx] 1up Indie 2023-03-09 | This vfx particle video tutorial shows you how to create debris/rubble for explosions, impacts, hits etc. in GameMaker with just a few mouse clicks. The idea is quite easy. You need to create a new Particle System asset and customize it so that you have a burst of particles in a parabollic movement. To do that you need to set the direction of the burst in an upwards arch (here between 20 to 160), give it a random size, add some gravity, apply a sprite of choise or use the pixel/disk shape and give it variable speed values to look organic. This video shows you additionally a dummy emitter as a reference, so you can get a feeling how the particle should like in comparison. Not necessary but a neat trick for fine tuning. Optionally you can increment the orientation, so that you have a spin in it. That's itTldr: - vfx for the winNote: This only works with the latest update 2023.2 (dropped yesterday) and upwards!Short quick and dirty video on the new Particle System:youtu.be/IYbxOmnmCwULong video on the new Particle System:youtu.be/KB2BOymdTwI👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will do, add debris/rubbel to the explosion image0:37 Subscribe0:50 How it works2:15 Create a new particle System asset2:25 Create a dummy emitter for comparison3:57 Create the real debris/rubbel particle2:13 Edit the values inside the Particle System's Emitter4:10 Set the debris/rubbel to a disk shape4:15 Set the emitter for one time burst and reset the emit area4:40 Reset the size of the particle5:00 Set to 40 particles per burst5:10 Give the particles gravity to fly parabollic5:24 Extent the duration of each particle's life5:46 Give each particle an organic random speed value6:02 Set the direction in a wide cone shape6:32 Set the alpha of the third color to 0, this makes them fade out in the end7:10 Create a new particle system during runtime and place it8:28 Delete the reference dummy emitter8:50 Set the colors of the particles to match the levels colors/ground colors
🔴Rain on the screen - The super easy way [GameMaker | Vfx] 1up Indie 2023-03-07 | This vfx particle tutorial shows you how to make rain fall on the background in GameMaker with just a few mouse clicks. The idea i quite easy, you need to create a new Particle System asset on the right side, open the particle editor tab and edit with the inspector window the values inside. There is a preset particle for rain (GM_Rain), so we only have to change a bit the size, scale and the spawning area (which is line). Then we place the newly created particleSystem on an asset layer on the left and that is pretty much it. Additionally you can change the direction where the rain should fall (change the angle of the lines also to adapt to the new flying direction) or change the color. That's itTldr: - vfx for the winNote: This only works with the latest update 2023.2 (dropped yesterday) and upwards!Short quick and dirty video on the new Particle System:youtu.be/IYbxOmnmCwULong video on the new Particle System:youtu.be/KB2BOymdTwI👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will do, a rain effect on the whole screen0:26 Create a new Particle System asset on the right0:44 Open an inspector window to change the emitters values 1:01 Select the preset called GM_Rain 1:25 Create an asset layer and place the Particle System there2:13 Edit the values inside Particle System's Emitter
Update V2023.2 - Bling bling is back with the new Particle Editor [GameMaker] 1up Indie 2023-03-06 | The newest patch V2023.2 comes with some good new features. The biggest and best feature is the new particle editor with the new asset particleSystem class.To start with the best thing first, we now have from this point on an asset class that allows it to be edited in an editor in real time, which is a god send. Particles are the magic pixels that fly in the background and enhance the game feel by a big stretch and now we can edit and test those without starting the game each time. It also allows them to be neatly packaged and share by the community, win win! There are a few minor features like that you can set "flags" in you music files and loop from these points onwards. Additionally they got rid of the being signed in to GameMaker when starting GameMaker, which is really convenient for beginners or people who want to try the software without user logins. And last but not least you can change how much of a "fidelity" your surfaces via their color channels are being assigned to, which reduces their overall gobbling on your VRam.Tldr:- particles editor with new asset class- can loop sound more easy- no forced loginsOffical blog and release notes:gms.yoyogames.com/ReleaseNotes.htmlgamemaker.io/de/blog/gamemaker-version-2023-dot-2-particle-editor-audio-looping-and-no-login👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 The newest GameMaker update 2023.2 has dropped 0:34 Audio loop points - loop sound files more easy0:48 No forced logins on startup0:54 Custom set color formats for surfaces1:14 The best part of the update - the particle editor3:26 Game shown: 8Doors Arum's Afterlife Adventure
Steam wishlists - Which way is the best [Marketing for Indie developers] 1up Indie 2023-02-24 | This video shows you what people think is the best way to get Steam wishlists and what the reality is on average. To put it into context, I have put out a poll on this Youtube page and asked my community what they thing which marketing way generates most wishlists. Is it the mighty blue bird of Twitter, streamers/influencers, the press, Tiktok, Reddit or something else.The short answer is none. The crown on how to get most steam wishlists on average goes to Steam festivals. They seem do create most bang for your buck. A bit of a suprise to myself also. Does that mean all the other sources are not relevant? No, a good balanced marketing mix is key but being heavy on Twitter for example does get you the lowest yields on average.My source/reference is Chris Zukowski and he is a marketing advisor, so take all said with a grain of salt. But this poll mentioned and discussed in the video looks like a good representation overall which method is effective and which less. His analysis takes wishlist spikes in aggregate and compares them on their effectivness from each source per input.Check out his video here:youtube.com/watch?v=WR2bpxd-EJw👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 Which marketing way is the best for wish list generating on Steam0:55 What my community thinks is the best way2:15 The reference used for the real numbers by Chris Zukowski3:00 Effectivness of Twitter: Worst of all sources per activity3:15 Chart explained: How well per activity you get a wishlist in return3:59 Effectivness of Press: Can be good but costs you on top4:22 Effectivness of Reddit: Same as press but with low costs and good yields4:42 Effectivness of Streamers: Good and solid overall, luck can play in your favor5:46 Effectivness of Tiktok: Yields in aggregate even beat Streamers6:13 The secret silver bullet, Steam festivals that have a really good chance of boosting your potential7:05 Game shown: Mighty Duck
New Particle Editor - Basics, loooong video [GameMaker beta] 1up Indie 2023-02-18 | YoYo games have offically released in their beta the particle editor. This powerful tool lets you create particles easy and on the fly with this new asset class. This video is the long version explaining it in detail for beginners or who felt the old particle system was not easy to test.Normally you would have to manually create all particles, customise them in code and run the game to test this. This method was very cumbersome and not enjoyable. The new feature looks like this. You have a new asset class called particleSystem and these contain one or more emitters. The emitters hold one to be custimised particle plus how it is being spawned. Imagine the emitter like one specific particle, which is being spawned in a specific area (field), in a specific type (one time burst or a constant stream) and setup to your liking (shape, color, size, movement etc. ). The emitters can also be saved and reused in other particles systems on the fly. Tldr:- editor to setup and see particles in real time- particle system asset/emitter preset (class)Offical beta release notes:gms.yoyogames.com/release-notes-runtime-NuBeta.html👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 New particle Editor in GameMaker for beginner in detail1:53 Subscribe2:32 What are particles3:03 The new particleSystem asset and the editor 3:26 Each particleSystem has Emitter(s), each define one particle and it's spawning4:50 Using the inspector window to set the emitters6:12 Emitter: Setting, where and how to spawn particles10:15 Emitter: Texture, set an image to the particle11:55 Emitter: Color, tranparency and color blending14:02 Emitter: Life, how long is a particle around15:18 Emitter: Scaling, deform/stretch the size16:00 Emitter: Size, set how big the particle is plus shring/grow it18:08 Emitter: Speed, set how fast the particles moves19:24 Emitter: Gravity, set an additonal counter force20:38 Emitter: Direction, set where the particle has to move22:06 Emitter: Orientation, set the particle's angle/rotation25:30 Emitter: Subparticles, what to do after particle's life is over26:40 Emitter: Library, save emitters as presets/reusable assets 29:32 How to use the particleSystem, place on asset layer32:10 How to use the particleSystem, create during runtime36:18 Game shown: Bombastic
New Particle Editor - Make magic now [GameMaker beta] 1up Indie 2023-02-17 | YoYo games have offically released in their beta the particle editor. This powerful tool lets you create particles easy and on the fly with this new asset class.Normally you would have to manually create all particles, customise them in code and run the game to test this. This method was very cumbersome and not enjoyable. The new feature looks like this. You have a new asset class called particleSystem and these contain one or more emitters. The emitters hold one to be custimised particle plus how it is being spawned. Imagine the emitter like one specific particle, which is being spawned in a specific area (field), in a specific type (one time burst or a constant stream) and setup to your liking (shape, color, size, movement etc. ). The emitters can also be saved and reused in other particles systems on the fly. Tldr:- editor to setup and see particles in real time- particle system asset/emitter preset (class)Offical beta release notes:gms.yoyogames.com/release-notes-runtime-NuBeta.html👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 Preview of the Particle Editor in GameMaker beta0:56 New asset class called particleSystem1:17 Each particleSystem has an particle editor for preview1:42 Each particleSystem has emitters2:15 Customise Emitter: particle spawning field, spawn type and amount3:09 Customise Emitter: Save the emitter as a reusable preset4:08 Customise Emitter: Setting up the particle itself6:42 Use and spawn particleSystem on the asset layer7:20 Use and spawn particleSystem during run time in an instance
Designer Zhengis Tasbolatov - Streets of Rampage [Interview] 1up Indie 2023-02-11 | This video is an interview with Zhengis Tasbolatov who is a developer and artist from Kazakhstan making the video game Streets of Rampage.Right from the start you can see the exeptional and beautiful hand drawn graphics that Zhengis is creating for his game. So if you want to peek inside how people from Kazakhstan think about the industry, how his game fares and other things around being a developer plus artist, then tune in. 🐦 twitter.com/city_of_rampage📸 instagram.com/city_of_rampage💻Wishlist his game if you are interested in Streets of Rampagestore.steampowered.com/app/1478260/City_of_RampageCHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 Who is Zhengis Tasbolatov1:30 What is harder, game design or art?2:03 How did you become a game developer3:45 How to get into contact with Zhengis4:48 Ditching GameMaker for Godot11:50: Streets of Rampage17:05 Game development market in Kazakhstan20:40 Monetizing a video game22:46 Being a professional artist
Move_and_Collide - Hyper speedo, in detail [Game Maker | Basics] 1up Indie 2023-02-03 | This basics video tutorial shows you how to setup with the new move_and_collide function a platformer with slopes in GameMaker.To be very frank this is a first shot of making a platformer easyier to build with the new move_and_collide function from the recent 2023.1 update.The idea behind move_and_collide is very simple. You put in a dx, dy value which are prediction points where to move to (speed values or fix points or simply a number). It goes as followes, the first input value (dx) is taking the current bounding box of the instance (player, etc.) and adds to that the dx value and checks if there is an collision, if not the player will be moved there. This process is being splitted up into an internal iteration of pieces sliced up of the total input value dx (partly move, check collision, if not move partly, check for collision and so on). Same goes for the dy value also but this time vertically. There are other input values like xoff/yoff and these just are an anstruction (push upwards/sideways) what to do if we are colliding/clipping. The last input values are max_x_move/max_y_move and are basically maximum speed values and prevent hyper speedo shown in the video.Note: This is an first attempt to unify the system into a platformer setup but as it seem, this is "okay" but not perfect for all situations. So if you got a better fix or a good idea how to make the whole thing universally useable, I would love to hear and share it with the community.👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will do1:28 Subscribe1:40 The new function move_and_collide2:16 How collisions work with instances2:43 What move_and_collide is doing4:40 Setting the platformer in GameMaker with walls/slopes6:23 Setting the player up for horizontal movement, get input7:13 Setting the player up for horizontal movement, set horizontal speed7:45 Apply horizontal input with move_and_collide10:17 Setting the player up for vertical movement, have a constant force downwards11:07 Setting the player up for vertical movement, clamp the result downards value12:28 Hyper speedo enabled, we need to counter mixed up speeds13:15 What the number of iterations value of move_and_collide means13:15 What xoff/yoff of move_and_collide do15:20 Avoid hyper speedo by clamping horizontal total speed15:54 Add jumping18:40 Reduce jumping to be available only when on ground21:40 Optional part28:04 Fail, next time 1up Indie don't disabled the other video layer when rendering the video
Gradient water/sea background - The easy way [GameMaker | Vfx] 1up Indie 2023-02-03 | This vfx tutorial shows you how to make a sea/gradient background for showing off in GameMaker with just a few mouse clicks.The setup of this background consists of 3 visual effect layers. A gradient with a light and dark color, the underwater effect for a nice distortion of that gradient and a vignette to give the whole thing a more pleasant look. Super easy and no keyboard was used/hurt in the process.Tldr: - vfx for the win👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will do0:48 Set a gradient effect layer0:42 Set an underwater effect layer 3:11 Finishing with a vignetter effect layer
Update V2023.1 - No bling bling but 2 must have functions [GameMaker] 1up Indie 2023-02-01 | The newest patch V2023.1 comes with some good quality updates. The highlight is the new move_and_collide function and audio_play_sound_ext. These two are worth the update by itself.In a nut shell, move_and_collide is taking in vertical and horizontal movement inputs and checks if there is a collision, if yes you cannot go there. This is super easy to use for beginners and advanced users.The audio_play_sound allows you to directly influence the sound file with a struct. It makes playing and controlling sound files more convenient. The other additions are that you can oscillate through a sound file with a sound effect (no idea what this is good for) and you can use sdf fonts, which smoothen pixelated fonts. This method is only of externally pulled fonts during runtime, so the use is limited. This feature will be in the future expanded to the internally stored fonts. Sdfs are very powerful way to create light weight "bitmap heat maps", which are use for fast light system or other means. Xor has a wonderful article for this:xordev.substack.com/p/gm-shaders-mini-raymarching-1351092Tldr:- move_and_collide for easy collision setups- customise sounds furtherOffical blog and release notes:gms.yoyogames.com/ReleaseNotes.htmlgamemaker.io/de/blog/version-2023-dot-1-easy-collisions-crisper-fonts-and-new-audio-functionality👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)2:39 xorCHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 The newest GameMaker update 2023.1 has dropped 00:26 Particle editor and new fx effects postphoned00:39 Should you update to this version?01:02 Easy collisions02:30 SDF fonts - make pixelated fonts crisper 03:26 Static structs - Nope03:36 Temolo audio effect05:20 audio_play_sound_ext - more instant control over a sound file 5:30 Game shown: Garlic
Mullet Hell out on Steam - Wishlist please! 1up Indie 2023-02-01 | Blast your way through hair curling enemies to prove you are worthy of the mullet! Mullet Hell is a casual rogue-like, reverse bullet hell where you must fend off foes who seek to remove your luscious locks from your head.Deal With Your Grief: Deal with your grief and come to accept that you can never escape. Make use of an arsenal of weapons that grow stronger as you progress to destroy every last Barber, Straightrazor, and Screecher to prove your are worthy of the mullet!Out now on Steam:store.steampowered.com/app/2268720/Mullet_Hell/#app_reviews_hash
External Hit Animation - Juice up any game [GAME DESIGN CODE] 1up Indie 2023-01-30 | This video shows you how to juice up any video game with good Game Design. External Hit animations are the backbone of any video game and indicate to the player with an animation that something is happening to the player/npc instance. Note that external hit animations are coming from the outside and can be considered as an additional animation being drawn on top of the instance being hit and can be one or multiple animations being created.There are two most common ways how to do this. A visual and easier way is to simply have an hit animation image that is running down it's animation and once it is finished you then remove it. That can be used as a default hit animation for all cases or as specific type of hit animation (elemental, weapon hit or internal bleed/oil/rubble) or both. The most common way in video games is to use particles that are being spawned in a particular way. This approach is more complicated and needs fine tuning becaues these animations are a composite of different particles. A vanilla hit effect for example has a fast moving ring that goes from the center and exands plus small lines that rapidly move out of the center in an circular fashion.Tldr:- sprite/image or particles or both to create hit effects- can be default, specific internal/external effects🚧 For the future: There will be follow up video that shows these hit animations with code and a visual👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 Hit animation with sprites/images0:18 Specific hit animation (elemental, weapon etc.)1:04 Hit animation with particles1:40 Combined hit animations2:14 Game shown: Celeste
One line collision system - Add casually [GameMaker beta] 1up Indie 2023-01-21 | There is not much to say besides that YoYo Games added in their beta casually a one line system that does collision checking for you. It does even work on slopes.This is a really big hurdle for beginners and is a more then welcome addition to GameMakers functions to make a game really fast with no fuss. The function move_and_collide does it all and I cannot stress it, I do love this function already.Tldr:- add horizontal, vertical input- set who is blocking (mostly a wall)- set a speed how fast to move- yes, it is really really goodOffical beta release notes:gms.yoyogames.com/release-notes-runtime-NuBeta.html👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 The new collision system in action for topdown01:01 The magic one line function
External Hit Animation - Juice up any game [GAME DESIGN] 1up Indie 2023-01-19 | This video shows you how to juice up any video game with good Game Design. External Hit animations are the backbone of any video game and indicate to the player with an animation that something is happening to the player/npc instance. Note that external hit animations are coming from the outside and can be considered as an additional animation being drawn on top of the instance being hit and can be one or multiple animations being created.There are two most common ways how to do this. A visual and easier way is to simply have an hit animation image that is running down it's animation and once it is finished you then remove it. That can be used as a default hit animation for all cases or as specific type of hit animation (elemental, weapon hit or internal bleed/oil/rubble) or both. The most common way in video games is to use particles that are being spawned in a particular way. This approach is more complicated and needs fine tuning becaues these animations are a composite of different particles. A vanilla hit effect for example has a fast moving ring that goes from the center and exands plus small lines that rapidly move out of the center in an circular fashion.Tldr:- sprite/image or particles or both to create hit effects- can be default, specific internal/external effects🚧 For the future: There will be follow up video that shows these hit animations with code and a visual👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 Hit animation with sprites/images0:18 Specific hit animation (elemental, weapon etc.)1:04 Hit animation with particles1:40 Combined hit animations2:14 Game shown: Celeste
Itorah - Almost a true gem [Game Review] 1up Indie 2023-01-09 | Itorah is a beautiful metroidvania made by the german developer GRIMBART TALES. This game was given to me for reviewing, but all opinions are mine nor do I have any association with the developer or publisher.Story: You explore as the last human on earth an beautifully crafted world in a central america world style which is being besieged by blight.Graphics/sound: The game speaks for itself, beautiful labor of love has been woven into this game. Graphics, vfx and animations are top notch! Sound and music is on a high ambience level and was not remarkable but a good overall background noise.Gameplay: You do what you always do in metroidvanias, you go to a level collect currencies, explore the map, get a new ability/gadget and beat the boss. Then you enter a new area and do the same here. The game is a bit too fair to the player so you will have an easy time with one low hitting enemies and competent platforming sections aswell as simple puzzles. Why is game is not among the best of the platformers/metroidvanias: There are virtually 3 collectible currencies that enlarge the health, stamina pool or further the healing capacities, which is bare bones. There are no unique items, no equippables, no side quests, no secret areas or bosses. This experience is very linear which no backtracking, no teleporting and no tempting the player with a shiny goodie/enemy waiting for your to come later. All enemies are virtually push overs and you will never feel any real challenge/dread, so you will never remember this annoying enemy, because the game doesn't have it. I personally don't understand why they wasted this labor of love to only produce a solid but standard experience.Final score: 8.5Tldr:+ beautiful graphics, vfx and animations!+ decend sound+ competent platforming and combat+ flawless execution and performance- no secrets, no unique items, no real challenges- very forgiving, a bit too easy - no teleporting between bonfires- wasted potential, "only" a very good game
Hit Animation - Juice up any game [GAME DESIGN CODE] 1up Indie 2023-01-07 | This video is the follow up on the Hit animation short video and is an practical appliction how to get a jucy hit animation in your game. Here we can use a visual tool like Juice FX or do most of the process with a few lines of code (in GameMaker). Video found here: youtube.com/watch?v=oB5Y90vniCoThe more visual approach is by using the paid software Juice FX and simply use one image for the hit animation, where you can use the preset with just one button click or customize your own animation in order to export it as a .png strip or single images. These can be used in any video game engine.Juice FX (not sponsored, I simply love the tool) found here: codemanu.itch.io/juicefxThe code base approach is more universal and sets a standard/flow/template for a hit state that snaps back to an idle state. Here we define a state machine (a simple variable that controls what is supposed to be happening) and once we are in the hit state we set once all things for this state. Which is in this video blending/tining/recolor the image/sprite, swapping it to a hit image/sprite and squishing the image/sprite upwards. You can of course mix and match and only do one of these steps. A hit state is a brief flash, so we run down a timer that resets after half a second or even less the state and all the changed values to the idle default.Tldr:- recolor/low- swap images- squish and resize👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will do1:07 Subscribe1:19 Visual - Hit animation with a sprite/image2:45 Code - Particle system, create a hit ring6:15 Code - Particle system, create a hit spikes
Hit Animation - Juice up any game [GAME DESIGN] 1up Indie 2023-01-07 | This video shows you how to juice up any video game with good Game Design. Hit animations are the backbone of any video game and indicate to the player with an animation that something is happening to the player/npc instance. This state is a short lived one and normall between a quarter of a second or even shorter. The same method can also be used for buttons or any other gui elements.Here we will go over the internal hit animation follow by other videos to external animations/effects on top.To understand all this we need to seperate the internal hit animation into it's parts. The first part is the most common practise where the player/npc instance is being recolored/blended or shown with a low opacity (or even 0). This is being seen as a flashing or blinking to the player. The second part is to have a fully animated hit image to be swapped or just another sprite that resembles a hit. The third one is a squashing animation done mostly in code where the image scaling is being distorted and lerped into it's original scaling. Most games do use all 3 methods as a combination.Tldr:- recolor/low- swap images- squish and resize🚧 For the future: There will be follow up video that shows these hit animations with code and a visual too how to do those in GameMaker and JuiceFx.👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 Flashing image by recoloring/blending0:43 State based image swaps1:06 Squashing the image and reshaping to the default1:24 All previous parts combined for a hit animation
Undertale [#1 Remake in GameMaker ] 1up Indie 2022-12-21 | This is the 1st video in a short series of remaking the battle system which you see in Undertale in GameMaker. This video is an introduction into what Undertale is and why this battle system is unique among the countless other (j)rpgs. What is Undertale? Undertale is a video game made also in GameMaker by Toby Fox whereyou play as a child that is being trapped in an unknown world and your job in this linear story is to progress. The difference is that you can genocide monsters, be neutral or even befriend them. This throws the concept of enemies being simply neutral farm on it's head.In this series we recreate a part of the battle system in GameMaker for one specific enemy and make it a template for others to add.🚧 For the future: This series is under construction. There will be a free downloadable project file for everybody, so you can grab and do whatever you like to do with it.💻Project + assets found here: 1up-indie2.itch.io/free-tower-defence-project-gamemaker👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 You decided on remaking Undertale0:34 What is Undertale1:46 The concept what we do2:58 What we will build
Update V2022.11 - Functional content [GameMaker] 1up Indie 2022-11-29 | The newest patch V2022.11 comes with some good quality updates for strings and arrays plus new sound filters and some new vfx filters.This update is more a technical one, where we get new ways to use strings and arrays with new functionality. The idea is to insert your own functions into GameMaker's new array functions/scripts for sorting or manipulating values. There are also more new ways to change/manipulate strings also, which is now more efficient to chain/concatenate. The new sounds effects are for me a new field, so I leave that to more experienced users. Binary literals are in a nutshell other ways to write, which will be most like only used to write long numbers visually easier. And last but not least we got new filters to play around with. These appear to be more niche, but time will tell what the community does with them.Tldr:- array and string functions make a programmers life more easy- new niche filters- new sound filter system// more detailed infos on binary literals, array and string function in DragonSpams channel:youtube.com/watch?v=ySy-oX4B054youtube.com/watch?v=xhDKj87g6p8Offical blog and release notes:gms.yoyogames.com/ReleaseNotes.htmlgamemaker.io/de/blog/release-2022-11👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What the new update is all about01:05 If your 2022.08 doesn't work on updating, reinstall01:40 New filter - Blocks Background02:27 New filter - Hue03:05 New filter - Ripples03:40 New filter - Panorama04:30 New filter - Parallax Background05:20 New filter - Film Grain05:50 Binary literals - write long numbers easier to read06:25 New string functionality07:40 New array functionality09:13 New Audio effects system10:35 Game shown: Doors Arum's Afterlife Adventure
Direction/vector movement under the hood [Game Maker | Basics] 1up Indie 2022-11-24 | This basics video tutorial shows you what direction and speed are actually when you see in under the hood in GameMaker.A very convenient and fast way is to use for beginner the internal speed and direction value. Once set, the instance moves by itself and you have no complicated system that it actually is. Here we take a peek inside GameMaker and see how vectors define every video game engine's movement from behind the scenes. All this is mathematics but neatly packed in speed and direction for us developers. That's it!A more in depth video can be found here:youtube.com/watch?v=MO4A_LT7KFk&t=168s&ab_channel=MantaGames👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)
Placing Towers on click [#3 Tower Defence in GameMaker ] 1up Indie 2022-11-22 | This is the 3nd video in a short Tower Defence series made in GameMaker. What is left now is to have a mechanism that allows us to place dynamically in the game houses on a grid. To snap to a grid we use the mouse x,y coordinates and substract the mudolo (rest values) from it. Then we assign a random sprite index to the instance and pass that information to on click created house also in. And last but not least we have two checks which if true disable placing a house at this part of the grid. First we check by a collision check if there is already a house being created on this spot/grid part and second a tile index check if on this mouse position a tile other then 0 was set (0 is default and "not set"). That's it! 🚧 For the future: This series will have 3 videos where all the basics are setup and a 4th optional one where constructors are used as a solid spawning setup. The project can be downloaded and since it is ultra small, is free to use (graphics are free also, check out the notes)💻Project + assets found here: 1up-indie2.itch.io/free-tower-defence-project-gamemakeroverworld graphics: Beast CC0 opengameart.org/content/overworld-grass-biomeEnemies:ThKaspar Orga byopengameart.org/content/micro-character-bases-basicsexplosion:JROB774 CC3byopengameart.org/content/pixel-explosion-12-frames👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will do0:49 Subscribe1:01 The concept what we do2:00 Draw and snap to grid4:17 Place a house on mouse click5:25 Assign random preview sprite for houses6:52 Check if we can place the house there11:48 Game shown: Itorah
Towers + shots [#2 Tower Defence in GameMaker ] 1up Indie 2022-11-20 | This is the 2nd video in a short Tower Defence series made in GameMaker. After we established enemy spawning and their redirection we need to have the Tower Defence part ready. So we need towers that shoot, which we do here by houses. The houses have an alarm looped and check if there is any instance of the enemy in game plus if the nearest enemy is in range. If these conditions are met we fire off a fast moving shot creates an explosion on impact with the enemy. That's it! 🚧 For the future: This series will have 3 videos where all the basics are setup and a 4th optional one where constructors are used as a solid spawning setup. The project can be downloaded and since it is ultra small, is free to use (graphics are free also, check out the notes)💻Project + assets found here: 1up-indie2.itch.io/free-tower-defence-project-gamemakeroverworld graphics: Beast CC0 opengameart.org/content/overworld-grass-biomeEnemies:ThKaspar Orga byopengameart.org/content/micro-character-bases-basicsexplosion:JROB774 CC3byopengameart.org/content/pixel-explosion-12-frames👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will do0:27 Subscribe0:40 The concept what we do1:44 Creating a bullet instance, destroy after 4 seconds2:40 Resize the bullet3:21 Setup the collision of the bullet, give spawn hp/health4:39 Setup an explosion instance6:02 Create a shooting house/tower with an alarm7:32 Shoot a bullet in the house/tower and shoot at nearest spawn11:10 Create an explosion on bullet spawn collision12:08 Limit house/tower by an attack range
Spawns + Redirect [#1 Tower Defence in GameMaker ] 1up Indie 2022-11-19 | This is the 1st video in a short Tower Defence series in GameMaker. The idea is to make a super simple system that allows thousands of spawns to run in a conga line without much customization or using any path or complicated system. In this video we create a spawner that creates in it's looping alarm event a spawn. There you only give the spawn a speed value and direction where to go to. The second part if where we setup a redirection system that redirects the spawns up, down, left or right. So here we simply create a collision event in those redirection instances and change the spawn direction (and xscale) when these bump into each other. That's it! 🚧 For the future: This series will have 3 videos where all the basics are setup and a 4th optional one where constructors are used as a solid spawning setup. The project can be downloaded and since it is ultra small, is free to use (graphics are free also, check out the notes)💻Project + assets found here: 1up-indie2.itch.io/free-tower-defence-project-gamemakeroverworld graphics: Beast CC0 opengameart.org/content/overworld-grass-biomeEnemies:ThKaspar Orga byopengameart.org/content/micro-character-bases-basicsexplosion:JROB774 CC3byopengameart.org/content/pixel-explosion-12-frames👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will do1:32 Subscribe1:44 The concept what we do4:00 Setting up a spawn/enemy4:34 Setting up a spawner6:46 Redirection system
Splash Screen Parallax [GameMaker | Vfx] 1up Indie 2022-11-12 | This vfx video tutorial shows you how to visually upgrade your splash screen/backgrounds in GameMaker with a parallax plus some neat and cheap light effects.The idea is quite simple: You need to have seperated images to create a pseudo 3D effect by enlarging and making them smaller in a rythmic slow time frame. For that you simply need to use the GameMaker's animation curves to tween in a loop. You also use the animation curves for the flashing lightning effect aswell as for some fake blinking lights on important spots. If your images are angled not like in the video straight forward (for example to the right like in Fury Unleashed) you also can use the animation curves to move (change the x,y position of the layers) where want to move. That's it!Video on animation curves in detail:youtube.com/watch?v=gMIzQGjmkFAArt from Valeria The Pagan Priestess:youtube.com/channel/UC--BuvjesA39JuN4cZ5gxug👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will do1:12 Subscribe1:26 Another example how have a parallax splash screen2:23 How it is done 4:19 Setting up the animation curves6:08 Code part8:42 Lightning/flash setup10:03 Flat light sources
Update V2022.9 [GameMaker Studio 2] 1up Indie 2022-10-07 | The newest patch V2022.9 comes with some good quality updates and prioritizing the inspector.This update is more a technical one, no new toys or features to play around with. The only thing noteworthy is that the room editor which was docked normall on the left side is gone and is being replaced by the inspector.Tldr:- room edtior replace by inspector- bug fixes - opera gx is now rebrandes as gxOffical blog and release notes:gamemaker.io/de/blog/release-2022-9gms.yoyogames.com/ReleaseNotes.html👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)Game shown: Infinite - Beyond the mind
How to become a (indie) game developer - Comic on Kickstarter 1up Indie 2022-10-06 | Hey guys, this is an informal video to ask your opinion. I had the idea to make a comic series on how to becoming a indie developer from start to finish and make a kickstarter to fund it. It would be a ligher weight medium covering useful topic that are normall done in long blog posts, essays or even books. I want this to be easy and ultra accessable.This series would have:Basics:- basics on what is a (indie) dev and what roles/opportunities exist- which game engines/tools to pick, what are the pros and cons- where to get resources and how meet people that share you dream- a wiki for most relevant terms in the industryGame in production- what to look out for- visual effects- game designAdvanced topics- marketing, how and where to sell you game- export your game to each platform and what you need to knowAnd maybe, but I would put it into a troll ultra high stretch goal, a manual in comic form for GameMaker which would be very very big indeed.So here is where YOU come in, would that be a good thing? Any idea what to cover, (besides coding because that would make it very fast not fun), what stretch goals you would like it see. What languages to cover, etc. . Please note that this is not a "cool idea do it" thing, but that would mean you or others would potentially back this comic series on Kickstarter and spread the word to others to make this a reality. Be honest and share your thoughs.
Draw outlined text - the easy way [Game Maker | Basics] 1up Indie 2022-10-04 | This basics video tutorial shows you how to draw your text with an outline the easy quick and dirty way in GameMaker.The idea is quite simple. You use the fx outline and assign it to an instance layer with the inspector. Then you place an instance on that layer that does a regular draw text command. All drawn texts have on this layer the same outline "attached". That's it!Note that this method has a limitation because you can only have one size of the outline set to it. And if you use the outline make sure to have no interpolation/antialiasing on the font (see the result in the video) which then wraps the outline around totally transparent spots which does look very ugly the bigger the font is. The fx layer affects all draw evens, texts included (fonts are being saved in the texture page, so they are "images" also).Tldr:assign one instance layer with the outline fx (via inspector)place the instance on this layer + draw some text in it👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will do0:31 Subscribe0:41 Where can you set the outline effect (fx)1:06 Text is also part of the draw event1:29 Have an instance with draw_text place on instance layer1:45 Apply to this instance layer the outline fx 2:20 It doesn't work well with interpolated/antialiased fonts3:06 Game shown: Cave Blazers
Roadout - Mini Cyberpunk 2077 [Made in GameMaker] 1up Indie 2022-09-30 | RoadOut is a post-apocalyptic action adventure game that mixes dungeon exploration and racing mechanics inspired by Zelda, GTA and Rock'n Roll Racing. Made in Gamemaker by Rastrolabs Game Studio from Brazil.Tldr: Fun game with cool graphics, love to see that one become a full gameCheck out their free demo!store.steampowered.com/app/1829270/RoadOutIf you want to support the game, become a Kickstarter backerkickstarter.com/projects/rastrolabs/roadout
Enter building - remove roof (culling) [Game Maker | Basics] 1up Indie 2022-09-23 | This basics video tutorial shows you how to disable/turn off/make invisible a roof when the player is entering a building in GameMaker.The idea is quite simple. You use two tilesets layers (or more) that are being switched off and on. That you do by layer_set_visible. You can achieve that by having an object as a trigger plate and when the player walks over it (collision check) then turn the tile layer that should be visible on and the other one off. That's it!Note that you cannot set any layer to an alpha value, only visible or invisible are currently possible. As an alternative you can use instances with sprites and fade them out and in but this method is quite specific. It requires for each roof a different sprite (if they have have different sizes). Tldr:toggle tile layers off/onhave a trigger plate instance to set visibility👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will do0:42 Subscribe0:57 Loop player's alarm and toggle layers visibility off/on2:35 Grab the tileset layer ids4:05 Is the player colliding/walking over the trigger instances?4:32 Is the player not inside the building, toggle interior layer off and exterior on 5:06 Is the player inside the building, toggle interior layer onand exterior off 6:32 Optional: How to make a "transparent" building/roof
Loops - How they work [Game Maker | Basics] 1up Indie 2022-09-18 | This basics video tutorial shows you what loops are in GameMaker.Loops are essential in every programming language where you repeat an instruction until a condition is met. There are 4 loops in GameMaker, which are "repeat", "for", "while" and "do until". They all share one thing. A condition when the loop is over and the code/instruction part that is being looped/repeated/iterated on. You can exit out of a loop with the break; command. Also a word of caution. You can do infinite loops which will always crash your game, so please don't do that. That's it!Tldr:loops = condition and code partSam spades more in depth video list on loops:youtube.com/watch?v=MvhSJ0A8wYk&list=PLwgH1hDD0q1Es6P8T1t9ew9cyUTvhlbY0// graphic from thumbnail:opengameart.org/content/mini-fantasy-sprites👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will go over0:45 Subscribe0:57 What are loops in programming?1:17 How are loop structured?1:22 Repeat loop2:20 Do until loop3:10 While loop3:42 For loop4:22 Stopping a loop with the break command prematurely5:43 Example 1 - Use loops for user interface drawing7:04 Example 2 - Use loops for randomization7:26 Example 3 - Use loops for initialization, checking8:25 Game shown - Narita Boy
Dead Cells style fog - The easy way [GameMaker | Vfx] 1up Indie 2022-09-14 | This vfx tutorial shows you how to make the fog effect like in Dead Cells with a few mouse clicks in GameMaker.Before the newest patch 2022.8 you could also create this effect with particles which is a bit more difficult and resource intensive then now. We now can use the newest visual effect: Fractual noise, which overlays the area/screen with a fog like texture to enhances the graphics of you game. You simply create a black colored sprite, give it a transparent opacity and place it on an asset layer. Then you assign this asset layer the fractual noise effect. Play around with the opacity and the values in the inspector until you get the result desired. That's it!For more detailed infos check out:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlin_noiseen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_noise👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What we will do0:30 Subscribe0:42 Quick peek how the result looks like1:07 Bad way how to create the fog instantly1:32 The easy way how to create fog with fractual noise3:50 Game shown: Dead Cells
Update V2022.8 - New fx + sound control [GameMaker Studio 2] 1up Indie 2022-09-08 | The newest patch V2022.8 comes with some good quality updates, new fx effects, new feather setting and a bit of more sound control.The main highlight I would say are the new filters and that you can have optional parameters in audio_play_sound. Besides that, they are in the process of finalising the long term stable version (this year hopefully) and give us the ability to customize the feather by being more detailed or the way it used to be. The newest version 2022.8 project files are not compatible with older ide, so be aware of that. All in all, a solid addition to the ide which is much apprecitated.Tldr:- 5 new filters- not backwards compatible- audio play sound new optional parameters- stability updates for the long term version- feather mode detailed/normalOffical blog and release notes:gamemaker.io/de/blog/release-2022-9gms.yoyogames.com/ReleaseNotes.html👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)
Rush of Fear - [Super Demon Survivors OST] 1up Indie 2022-09-07 | Super Demon Survivors is a homage to time survival reverse bullet hells, set in a familiar world pitting multiple characters against hordes of demons and monsters in a multistage free for all.Can you outlast wave after wave of increasingly difficult, minimalistic gameplay using an array different weapons and power ups?Where you like the genre or you want to be part of the active community, you will have direct influence on how the game will be done via comments below or directly with me and my community on my discord server.The game is made by me and Gutpunch studios to create a game that is in the spirit of the good old games but with modern standards.gutpunchstudios.comSteam link: store.steampowered.com/app/2072080/Super_Demon_SurvivorsSuper Demon Survivors OST soundtracks are made by:Positive Skepticsoundcloud.com/positiveskeptic---------------------------------------------Track: Rush of Fear - Super Demon Survivors OSTMusic provided by Positive Skeptic
Version numbers - How they work [Game Maker | Basics] 1up Indie 2022-08-29 | This basics video tutorial shows you what version numbers are in GameMaker (software in general) and how semantic versioning is a standard practise in software development.Image any game or software and you will see that it has a version number attached to it. This number combination is mostly of 3 numbers seperated by a dot and it tells you in what kind of state the software (game) is currently in. This standardisation is called Semantic Versioning or short SemVer for software developement.The first number indicates if the software is in early acces, alpha or beta or pre-release state, so this would be then a 0. Everything above 1 is a full release and post releases that are major. The second number indicates that new features or minor additional content/changes/features have been added to the software but are not breaking the overall structure.The third number indicates that patches/bugfixes were done. A quick rule also: Each time a major or minor version change has been done, you nullify the right numbers back to 0.Tldr:First number - (major - alpha, beta, full release)Second number - minor additional features/contentThird number - bugfixes/changesGood small guide:geeksforgeeks.org/introduction-semantic-versioning👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What are version and semantic versioning1:10 What the version number mean3:55 Setup versions in GameMaker
Game is out on Steam! What comes next [Super Demon Survivors devlog #8] 1up Indie 2022-08-14 | Super Demon Survivors is a homage to time survival reverse bullet hells, set in a familiar world pitting multiple characters against hordes of demons and monsters in a multistage free for all.Can you outlast wave after wave of increasingly difficult, minimalistic gameplay using an array different weapons and power ups?Where you like the genre or you want to be part of the active community, you will have direct influence on how the game will be done via comments below or directly with me and my community on my discord server.The game is made by me and Gutpunch studios to create a game that is in the spirit of the good old games but with modern standards.gutpunchstudios.com// content of this video:1. If you really want to help the development team out please do us a big favor and simply wishlist Super Demon Survivors on Steam. This small click on the game is super helpul in being recommended to other people and you may find it interesting also. If you already have purchased the game, thank you so much and we hope you have a blast with the game. Super Demon Survivors on Steam:store.steampowered.com/app/2072080/Super_Demon_Survivors2. The game is based around the community and it's ideas, so if you want to join in and form the game into a better state then please give us feedback in the comment sections or directly interact with me on my discord on this topic you like to discuss. We want this game to florish and your idea could make this solid game into a great game on the long run.Discord:💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb3. We have already planned new content and there will have a scedule on new things coming up every thursday for now. So you will see on this youtube channel regular devlog videos for the current state and new features we are working on, an update video showing what has been changed plus added and finally a community feedback video that does go into grannular content of the game and what we do with your feedback.👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)
Super Demon Survivors - Trailer 1up Indie 2022-08-07 | Super Demon Survivors is a homage to time survival reverse bullet hells, set in a familiar world pitting multiple characters against hordes of demons and monsters in a multistage free for all.Can you outlast wave after wave of increasingly difficult, minimalistic gameplay using an array different weapons and power ups?Where you like the genre or you want to be part of the active community, you will have direct influence on how the game will be done via comments below or directly with me and my community on my discord server.The game is made by me and Gutpunch studios to create a game that is in the spirit of the good old games but with modern standards.gutpunchstudios.comWishlist now and support the channel!Find the game here on Steam: Out now!📜store.steampowered.com/app/2072080/Super_Demon_SurvivorsWant to chip in and change the game? Join the discord server:discord.com/channels/582918792145928202/959380551914106920
Rooms/levels - How they work [Game Maker | Basics] 1up Indie 2022-07-23 | This basics video tutorial shows you what rooms are in GameMaker and how they work, how to set the start room, how to jump into other rooms and finally what persistence means for rooms in GameMaker.Image rooms to be like levels, each time you enter a room/level GameMaker is loading all the necessary things in there to be used and played. Rooms have properties and hold layers which also hold their respective assets ( instance layer holds instance, tileset layer has tiles etc. ). Besides having layers rooms also have properties like height and width and hold camera/view values and an inbuild physics system.So how does it work? Well, you define the start room (default is the first room1) visible by the icon and this is how the game starts by loading in the (firsts) start room. When you want to transitions/jump to other rooms, you simply use room_goto() which will unload the current room and all its content and load in the new room with fresh content.Persistence for rooms means that you save the last state of the room and when you jump back into it, you don't create a fresh version of it but with updates values (positions, instance, etc.). This is not recommened though because it makes sense to have a persistent instance which stores all the necessary values you want to inject into the freshly created room.And lastly, you can customize rooms during runtime but not in the current room you are in. That means you need to set those instructions in advance.Offical manual on rooms:manual.yoyogames.com/GameMaker_Language/GML_Reference/Asset_Management/Rooms/Rooms.htm👑 Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: patreon.com/1upindieFollow me on:📸 Instangram: instagram.com/1upindie🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/1upIndie💬 Discord: discord.gg/gvr98nb📜 Udemy: udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23 (See youtube about page for discount)CHAPTERS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0:00 What will discuss0:29 Subscribe0:41 How rooms work in GameMaker4:42 Room values to read out5:32 Room start/end events in instances6:22 How to jump/transition to another room8:18 Editing rooms during runtime
