I’m still here!
Most of my time at the moment has been dominated by life. My fiancée and I are planning to move so there has been a lot of upheaval and a…
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Tag: GMS2
Game projects, experiments and progress
from behind the scenes.
Game Over, Man!
Apologies for the quote from Aliens (warning link has mature language)! So, over the last few weeks, I have been working on rationalizing the data tables in the game. When…
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Pew
Hello World! In this post, I will be talking about the weapons. No shoot em up is complete without them and Paradroid is no exception. For a game back in…
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Console ++
This is just a quick update to show some of the other screens that I class as console screens; these are the game start, intro, and the pre-transfer game screens.…
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In my previous post, I talked about the Minimap screen and the Lifts screen which are both parts of the console display within the game. The console screen also has a…
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Minimap
A minimap needs to show the deck clearly without giving everything away. Building the console view brings the ship’s layout into a more useful form.
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Going Down
With the doors all working, as I explained in the previous post, the next logical step was giving the player the ability to move around the whole of the dreadnaughts…
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The doors
Automatic doors need to react to droids reliably. Moving from Unity to GameMaker changes how the opening zones and collision events have to work.
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Entrapment
Smaller collision markers define where a droid can move inside the larger deck tiles, allowing tight boundaries around terminals, walls and overlapping artwork.
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Tiles, Tiles, they’re everywhere
Recreating the dreadnought’s decks means moving from Tiled references to GameMaker rooms, tracing the original layouts and checking the tiles in play.
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