A summary of my GameMaker assets

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This post serves as a collection of descriptions and links to various GameMaker-related assets and extensions that I have published over time.

Back when publishing it in 2017, I thought it was longer than expected, but it had since grown about twice in size. At least the blog has that "navigation" sidebar now.

Also should answer the "how do I support your work" question that some readers have.

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Grid-based spirals

Good for placing objects around a grid cell! Like this:

A spiral spanning a 9x9 square grid. Points are numbered and lines show the path.
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Click/tap to select point

You give the function a grid XY and it tells you where the next point should be to have it go in a spiral.

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GameMaker: Radial health/progress bars

This is a post about turning this

into this:


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Click/drag to adjust %

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