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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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Default appearance and after tweaking
Lately I've been setting up some software in Steam Deck's desktop mode and I couldn't help but to notice that some applications (like Vivaldi or Obsidian) don't quite fit with the rest of the windows.
Continue readingAs in, to have the browser clear cookies on exit except for specific websites.
In a way this is also for myself as once in a while I look for the setting in a wrong place and a handful of outdated forum posts aren't helping.
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Have you ever been working on procedural generation, deterministic netcode, or anything else where the order of operations is important?
This is a post about how to debug order of execution for random number generation functions or built-in functions in general.
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This is a post about how to call a function from a parent constructor in a same-named function in a child constructor and how static works in GameMaker Language in general.
Ever find yourself thinking "I wish I could quickly print the contents of this byte buffer somewhere"?
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Have you ever wanted to automatically show file+line in your debug output so that you don't have to guess which of three places did a line reading "oh no" come out?
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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