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This is a small post about how to convert key codes to key names and/or convert key names to key codes. Comes with sample code for GameMaker and a generic version.
Mostly published because it covers majority of common and semi-common buttons.
Continue readingThis is an average-length (~10 pages) blog post about how to write a parser, AST builder, bytecode compiler, and a bytecode interpreter - in general, and in GameMaker specifically.
Continue readingOver time, I have witnessed a particular scenario a few too many times:
Having spent far too much time arguing with people and explaining how to use version control, I have decided to make a blog post that would cover a few things on the matter:
While this tutorial is oriented on GameMaker: Studio users, it can also be easily applied for other tools.
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This is a blog post about handling circle-rectangle collisions. For some reason, these seem to be generally regarded as something complicated, even though they aren't.
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A GIF of the interactive demo seen later in this post.
Questions about the algorithms related to isometric grids are not uncommon. In fact, they are a little more common than you could expect them to be, given the relative simplicity of things.
So I have decided to write a little blog post on the two things important here:
In action
A little while ago, I was asked about what would be a good approach to creating an effect for a top-down game where coins would fly out of a smashed object. Not recalling any tutorials on the matter, I've made an example of this exact thing, and this is a post detailing everything related to such an effect.
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Being able to quickly upload a HTML5 game to the web is important.
It's not just a more comfortable format for sharing, but sometimes a requirement, since games created with GameMaker: Studio, Construct 2, Haxe+OpenFL and many other tools may not necessarily fully function when launched locally due to browsers laying restrictions over local file access (meaning that sending a ZIP with game files may not quite work).
While it used to be possible to host HTML5 games on Dropbox for free (or, rather, it still is possible, but only if you have enabled the public folder before the late 2013, else it'll cost you some), you can still host HTML5 games freely on Google Drive.
And this article explains the process of hosting your games on Google Drive in detail.
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Often, games and applications may display numbers. Sometimes, large numbers. In some cases, numbers with so many digits that you aren't even sure about most suitable notation.
And that's where use of thousand separators is handy. Since delimiter symbols (normally commas) appear in fewer quantity than digits, they are easier to count, and user can tell the order of magnitude easier.
This post covers detail of doing that, both in algorithm and code.
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Angular rotation is rotation of one angle (normally a numeric value) towards other angle. This can be considered interpolation and has many applications ranging from gradual rotation towards angle to turrets, homing missiles, and procedural bone animations.
This post is about how these internally work and implementation.