#game maker 8

[soentsukinocturne]

Nocturne.exe has been successfully opened!

With the discovery that Nocturne is in Game Maker 8 (Thank you to @nbhikari​ for discovering this and being the first to open the game!), Nocturne’s files have been successfully accessed. We are currently in the process of extracting the files from the game for further usage.

[ghostdevblog]

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This is what you get when you a giant mishap with coding mistakes. I made this top-down shooter in Game Maker 8 and while I would love to say that it’s a stroke of coding wizardry with no errors. I have an error that makes bullets spawn and move in the direction of player movement which is funny but not a thing. If someone could help me find a solution for this error, I would be extremely grateful.

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[rehncohro]

Want to try one of my old games from around 2011? Circle savers is now on Gamejolt!: http://gamejolt.com/games/circlesaver/259466

[gamemakerlanguage]

Screenshots from early 2016. 

[magioy-2016]

Day 3: Difficulty with Coding!

As someone who has done little GML coding, I am experiencing difficulty coding some enemies. I am trying to mimic specific AIs, therefore it isn’t too simple for me.

If anyone is experienced in GML and would like to help out, please do! I would greatly appreciate the assistance.

[magioy-2016]

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Hello there Tumblr! This is @nerdylizardeperson, making an entirely new account for a project I’m working on. As an aspiring game developer, I have tried time and time again to create the next big game. However, I have continuously scrapped projects, barely getting anywhere with my efforts. As a new year’s resolution, I have decided to finally make a fully-fledged game this year, hence my project, named “M.A.G.I.O.Y. 2016″. MAGIOY (mæ-gi-oi) stands for “Make a Game In One Year”, and in this challenge I’ve made I am going to try and make as good of a game I can by January 1st, 2017, using Game Maker 8.

As you can see, I’ve decided to make a sequel to a game that I used to play 8-10 years ago, a game called Dr. Lunatic: Supreme With Cheese by Hamumu Software. It’s a game about a green-shirted bald guy who smashes evil vegetables (and other evil beings, in forms such as skeletons and zombies) against a mad scientist planning to use an army of giant zombies to take over the world (and the mad scientist’s poker buddies). Very interesting setup, alongside a very visually appealing design and fun gameplay. The game was released in 2003 - a whopping 13 years ago.

Why remake the game? Well, there’s a lot of good reasons to do so. First of all, the game engine for Dr. Lunatic: Supreme with Cheese has a few downsides, as the original engine was made in 1998 for Spooky Castle, the predecessor of SWC.

Graphics: The game can only process 256 colors, whereas any shades of the color orange (except brown) cannot be displayed.

Memory: New features cannot be added due to the fragility of the engine. From what I’ve heard, any additional additions could break the game. It’s kind of like what happened with The Binding of Isaac.

Modernization: With newer and newer computers being made, SWC could end up becoming unplayable on future operating systems.

There are likely other reasons, but I can’t think of all of them right now. Too lazy. Anywho... here’s one of the songs in the DrL:TDDE. The title screen. The reason I decided to go with “The Deep Dish Edition” was as a nod to the previous game, which is slightly pizza-themed. And deep dish pizzas have a lot of stuff in them.

Back to making music! Tomorrow, I plan on using what I have for an engine and creating a tutorial world. Hopefully by the end of this week, I will have screenshots (with poorly-made placeholder sprites!)

[betaofsokyodai]

Big post below involving Insanity Jam Idea Generator

Alright so I used the Insanity Jam Idea Generator and found a few cool ideas for games. (This was using the Genre lock on most because it kept pulling up genres that I either fail at developing (Historical for lack of accuracy or Racing because I fail at making physics for cars) or ones that I despise and won't do out of rejection of their very existence (Pay to Win comes up quite a bit for me, and I think it's a flawed way to release a game and it's a scam.) Typical genres I lock are: Bullet Hell Shooter Hack N' Slash Beat Em' Up Collect a thon Horror Exploration Fantasy.

But I digress...

Anyhow, I've started work on a small bullet hell SHMUP where you are tortured by your own death. You are a ghost that has been contracted by Death to gather souls for him. Every enemy shot down releases a little ghosty thing and you collect it to fill two meters: Your energy, which serves as your timer and constantly goes down; and your Soul Gauge, which acts as experience and levels up your ship. If you get shot down, you either regress a level or your ship explodes. This doesn't mean you've died though. Upon destruction, you become a little ghosty thing as well that is invulnerable to enemies and enemy fire. The catch is that your energy rapidly depletes in this form, and you have to touch an enemy ship, morphing it into a new player craft before it depletes completely.

I have quite a few sprites made, but I'm quite tired right now, so I think I'm going to go to sleep and post them when I wake up.

[betaofsokyodai]

I've been experimenting with the Insanity Jam Hub's idea generator, and let's just say that I've generated so many neato ideas that I can't pick one that I want to do for this summer's event. (I wanted to participate in the one this spring, but couldn't because of some school stuff.)

Thinking about making short little games about some of the ideas generated and calling "The Insanity Series" or something.

EDIT: Whoops, I meant to link the generator in my post and forgot to put it in. Now you can go and check it out for yourself.