⚂ Always believe in your soul
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.
Continue readingGameMaker Language currently doesn't have closures.
It might in GMRT (proposal), but for now you cannot do something like this
function get_enemies_below_hp(_enemies, _threshold) { return array_filter(_enemies, function(_enemy) { return _enemy.hp < _threshold; }); }
because _threshold is not visible inside the inner function.
But there are some ways around that.
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This is a post about doing homing missiles in GameMaker!
Continue readingAs cohost! goes read-only on October 1, I look back at one of the things that I adored about the website: being able to make animated and/or interactive posts with (slightly restricted) CSS and HTML (no JavaScript).
People made a lot of posts utilizing these tricks, and these are some of them.
Continue readingEarlier this year, I made an image reveal/frame comparison generator for use with cohost!.
With website set to close at the end of this year, I have updated the tool to output that's easier to use outside of cohost!.
The idea is that you supply two image URLs, tweak a few settings, and get something like this back:
And this works without any JavaScript!
The generator is available online, and in this post I go over how it works and what else it can do.
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This is a little FAQ for various Windows-specific extensions for GameMaker that I make!
Each blob has different color and opacity, but the mixed color (over background) is the same
When working with images and websites I deal with many different tricks and challenges, but some of them slightly more often than others.
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We recently added localization support to Ghost Croquet!
In doing so, I have also improved the localization system that I use in my projects (and perhaps you could too).
This is a post about the process, architecture, and challenges.
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Thanks to my further advancements[?] in technology, some of my extensions can be used in even older GameMaker versions, such as GameMaker 8.1.
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So I've had this idea for an AutoHotKey script that could turn motions from any pointing device (mice, trackballs, trackpads, etc.) into custom actions.
I guess you might call them gestures?
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A tray icon showing default/navigation/numpad states
This is a little post about a trick for displaying a programmable keyboard's state (generally just the active layer) on a computer without fiddling with firmware code.
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