By Mystic Trunks
Game Maker is a Variable controlled game engine which makes it very easy to use, for those who used Rm2k/3 or even RMXP you should have no problem with this part of the tutorial.
Let’s make a simple clock system.
Open game maker and call it clock and in the step even do this.
CODE
var seconds, [...]
By Mystic Trunks
Getting Started With Game Maker
1. Go to the official Game Maker site http://www.yoyogames.com to download GM7. If english is not your native language, there are some translations of the documentation in other languages at http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/docs . GM7 has two versions, Lite and Pro. Most people will only need Lite to make games, and [...]
Welcome to an edition of Platformer’s Guide 99. Today we are covering many things which includes:
-Image_scaling
-Slopes
-For Loops
-Movement
-And others
I took the liberty of getting all sprites and objects already created for you; so if you want to follow along exactly, here’s the file:
Link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8TT7QGZG
Note: There are many ways to accomplish what I am about to teach [...]
This is an exact replica of the LOG movement script, even though the script itself was from LEGACY code which means they got it from a database. Zelda has the same script, though that script was modified for the environment, log’s wasn’t.
Create Event
dir = “d”;movespeed = 2;attacking = false;can_move = true;ani_speed = 0.18;moving = 0;
Step [...]
Code:
draw_set_alpha(0.3);
draw_set_blend_mode(???);
draw_set_color(c_navy);
draw_rectangle(0,0,room_width,room_height,false);
draw_set_color(c_white);
draw_set_blend_mode(bm_normal);
/ End Code
This is just something I thought of having in my game, but you’re basically on your own for the actual system, this in itself is how a day and night system is created in Game Maker because in all honesty you just change the screen color very much like RPG-Maker. RPG Maker D/N [...]