#game maker 2

[thegreatlazule]

Devlog -- Entry 2

21st of June, 2026.

Days since beginning of development: 1 month, 1 week and 2 days.

Ok so today i didn't do a whole lot, i did however start learning gamemaker 2 basics instead of just looking up tutorials for everything i needed to do (hindsight's always 20/20, dont judge me), and i also came up with some worldbuilding bits; namely, that the way the elements in Periodically Fighting are born is that theyre made up of smaller atoms of their respective elements, these atoms all have consciousness, albeit very small, and when they conjoin beit by chance or by gravity (im not sure if that's how it works, but this is a fictional world only loosely based on real science) these consciousness all amount to something bigger, something sapient and alive. Anyway yeah if anyone has any gamemaker 2 resources thatd be extremely handy, not to mention if anyone would like to help out at all with anything thatd be great too

[sonic255656]

recently started the free trial of game maker 2 and damn, i havent even gotten to code yet after tutorials, its all dealing with the fact that not a single sprite sheet i have found is evenly spaced so i have to individually crop every frame and add them one by one instead of being able to use the convenient sprite strip feature

it would be a lot easier but i cant add frames from this sprite sheet by selecting them with the built-in selector. no, that would replace all the frames i already have

in conclusion, never use google for game maker 2 sprite sheets. if it isn't a popular af character they will be nonexistent

[jiaskaprojects]

Enemy WIP 2

[ryuzach]

[Devtober Day 19-20]

Here’s the new and improved battle screen!

There’s still a few rough bits here and there but it’ll get cleaned and polished over time, right now I just wanted to get the basics out of the way. I’ve been working a lot on bugs and code so it’s was a nice break to do something visual. 

The look isn’t quite set in stone but I think it’s a good start.

My next goal is to get the results screen up and running, which means leveling up and getting gold!

[shoeheadart]

Hey I got text in! Or at least the bare bones of it right now, which gives me an other opportunity to also share some of Craigs fuckin’ awesome chiptunes. He’s bleep blooping so good. Also shouts out to @michaelvandiest for the really helpful scrolling text tutorial!

[jiaskaprojects]

So, onto the main menu. Honestly, I'm only doing this because I feel that I can reuse this code in the future. Because main menus, even when properly planned out, are mind-numbing. I'm not even halfway through, I've just got drawing the options done, and figuring out how to have certain options have text to explain their function. The white squares are actually the space I defined for adding the mouse to the UI, since I felt that that was expected in most games. I'm sure adding that will bring many complications going forward. Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ITZOrI2qkA&list=PLSFMekK0JFgx2vmcCnttxxhrNVTjUB8R1&index=1

[ryuzach]

[Devtober Day 27-31!]

It’s the last day of Devtober! 

I’ve been having a pretty crazy week at work but I managed to get some progress to show for the last day at least, I finally got learning skills set up!

It took way longer than I’d like, I’ve been working on it a tiny bit every night this week before bed. Unfortunately that meant having to cut things short a lot to get to bed so I kept losing my place the next time I started up.

First I forgot to finish the script to actually add the skills to the character, then I realized I hadn’t added them to the battle menu, and finally after I was all ready to test I loaded up the game only to realize that I only knew Heal and Antidote so I couldn’t even level up to test it!

It’s nice to have it working though, the new skills still need to be added to the level up screen but that’s (theoretically) easy.

Anyway, Devtober might be over but I’m still hoping to keep up with daily dev work, even if it’s something as simple as fixing a bug it’ll be nice to keep the streak going. I’ll be doing a post mortem on Devtober sometime this weekend, it’s been a pretty interesting month!

[ryuzach]

[Devtober Day 21-24]

Missed a few days on here but I made some progress! 

I’ve been working on the battle results screen for the past few days and finally got it worked out. It might not look like much but there’s a lot going on in the background, a lot of the battle system code relies on having access to the data for each combatant so I have to cleanly remove defeated characters without upsetting anything. I also have code in place to pool together the EXP, gold, and items from each defeated enemy to be rewarded at the results screen. 

Next up I’ll be adding a bit more detail, showing the character what they got, applying EXP, and handling level ups.

I also added a quick simple damage indicator, I have some plans in mind for a more detailed one but it’s not too high of a priority.