DAY 7 (Cont.)

Last night I talked about with() and ‘other’ and how you can use them to approach your code structure in a new way and hopefully, a simpler way. I also started to use these techniques to start tackling moving platforms.

I added both horizontal moving platforms and sub-pixel movement to the platforms last night. Again, to add sub-pixel movement, I collect the rounded sub-pixel numbers and add them to the movement calculations when they exceed a whole number.
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DAY 7

It had been roughly a week since I’ve had any public updates on this project. I had a busy Halloween weekend and I was also wrapping up some contract work. On top of that, I have been poking at some pixel art. I’d really like to have the freedom to create my own games, both technically AND visually. If I decide to practice pixel art more regularly, I’ll start a log about that too.

ANYWAY, changes since the last post:

1) I decided that I would be needing jump through platforms. There are collision objects that are only collide-able when you fall on top of them from above. Basically, you can jump up through them, then fall back down to land on them.
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DAY 1 (Cont.)

I’ve had quite a bit of positive feedback in response to this devlog! I’m super happy about that and would love to post updates ‘somewhat’ daily. I say ‘somewhat’ because I am bound to miss a day here and there, BUT I’d love to make this a regular thing!

I greatly appreciate the shares, retweets, likes, etc!
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DAY 1

I would like to work on a project, publicly. I think it would be cool to show off what goes through my mind as I am both programming and designing the “feel” and mechanics that go into a fast-paced, action platformer.

As usual, I am going to be using Game Maker Studio for this project. When creating a new project file, my first steps are to get some placeholder art into the build, asap. I want to be able to test code as it is completed so I quickly make a standard 16×16 pixel block, two 45-degree angle slopes, and a bounding box for the player.
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