Topic: Game Development Issues / Winter Games

Quoteif you make a new review on the game in my add ill make them(and it needs
to be 2 lines long atleast rather then pros: everything cons: nothing body: good
game)
my graph card suks so i downloaded it. i'll play it as ASAP.
it looks good.

Topic: General Chat / Them Crooked Vultures.

I copied this straight from my MySpace bulletin. Just... Listen. And comment
about what you think and stuff.
Best supergroup ever. It's a great band. Seriously.
The members are:
Dave Grohl: Nirvana, Foo Fighters
John Paul Jones: Led Zeppelin (Duh)
Josh Homme: Queens of the stone age.
http://www.myspace.com/crookedvultures
The new single is New Fang. It's pretty good. You'll probably be hearing it on
the radio soon.
My favorites that I've listened to so far are: Mind Eraser, No Chaser (That's
one song), New Fang, Scumbag Blues, and Elephants. They're all good, though.
Listen. Now. And buy the album. Don't pirate it, actually buy it.

Topic: Suggestion Box / Animation menu for backgrounds!

its easyer just to make an animated sprite and have the controler draw it across
the room. I guess if there were animated backgrounds it would be easyer but gm8
is no longer taking suggestions

Topic: Game Development Issues / Move_Contact equivilant

do you mean move_contact_all() or move_contact_solid() ?
i don't understand the question. I use move_contact_solid with no problem. Who
sets this rule that you shouldn't use it? And why follow it? Just do what works
for you.

Topic: Game Development Issues / Two Issues

1- yes it's possible. Use the sound_add(fname,kind,preload) function.
2-
-A: if distance_to_point(mouse.x,mouse.y) < 30 speed-=2;
of something like that.
-B: set a certain var to true when it's speed hits 0, then keep that direction
constant when the speed is 0 until the speed changes.

Topic: Game Maker Games / Animator - A Skeletal Animation tool written entirely in GM.

It's defiantly a nice idea, i can see people using something like this a lot.
Perhaps a choice in style would be best. Like traditional 8-bit looking
characters (32x32) or 16-bit characters (32x64) as well as street fighter like
characters and more modern styles.

Topic: General Chat / Gamer Day Episode 6 (Season Finale) + Details on a Intro Theme Song

QuoteWatching right now, And guess what?
It's lagging...like hell.
Anyways
QuoteList of YYG Gamers in this episode:
UrbanIdiotic43 (Me)
DeathandGrim2
The Steware
RC
Nailog
Darkblast
FGS Hurricane.

:(
EDIT:
:)
EDIT2:
:(
EDIT3:
:0
EDIT4:
:/
EDIT5:
Err, You do know that I am straight right?
EDIT6:
err, and not retarded...
EDIT7:
Oh well, At least I killed RC with a shotgun.
I portrayed your character based on a dude from A-Team, just for fun.
I'll be sure to rehabilitate you in the next season. And I didn't mean to
set you out as an Un-Straight guy, my mission was to make you out as
a crazy guy from the asylum. In pre-production, your character wasn't written
originally in the script so I put you in as a resolution to Nailog's success
over
RC.
Edit: lol, forgot, you were one of the main characters. By the way, you were the
comic relief in this episode. Usually I'm the one actin' tha' fool.

Topic: General Chat / A game's difficulty

QuoteYeah i agree, however i seem to have problems with the first levels of my
game still being to hard for people. i think it's just because i'm mad Pro lol.
[un-sarcastic sarcasm] You might want to tone down the difficulty
then...

Topic: General Chat / A game's difficulty

Yeah i agree, however i seem to have problems with the first levels of my game
still being to hard for people. i think it's just because i'm mad Pro lol.
[un-sarcastic sarcasm]

Topic: General Chat / GMS Radio, download?

Will it be soon? Cmon its 9:35!

Topic: Suggestion Box / Animation menu for backgrounds!

lol I get what your saying. Yeah i guess animated backgrounds would be sweet. I
have to use this ridiculous system where i make the backgrounds 0~7 change
repetitively to get it to animate.

Topic: Game Development Issues / Two Issues

#1: Is it possible to make a game simply link to music so when you hit "Play",
it will play with music it finds stored on your computer? Not included in the
Game File.
That isn't the big issue though, the main question is...
#2: You have an object that follows the mouse, how could I make it so that it
'A' - Gets slower the closer to the mouse it is and 'B' - How can I make it stop
and stay at the angle it last was in when it reaches the mouse. Currently have
the object spinning and shuddering out of control when it touches the mouse.
Any help?

Topic: Game Development Issues / Move_Contact equivilant

So the rule now is that you shouldn't use move_contact(distance,12). So
what should I use instead? And yes, thats it. Thats the question.

Topic: General Chat / what makes site popular. let's say you have no ads

Well, first make sure it's on google, yahoo, bing, etc
Update it constantly, even if it's just little things
Have an online presence (twitter, facebook, yyg)
Put it in your signature
Actually have things people want
have lots of media (videos, music, free trials etc)
ping your site now and again
stop spamming people

Topic: General Chat / Vending Machine Forum Game.

Quoteout comes over 9000 memes
in goes soviet russia
Out comes Russians
In goes me realizing MT is now a mod

Topic: General Chat / GMS Radio, download?

That's because I was busy.. Don't worry. It'll be announced on Game Maker
Gazette when it is uploaded and ready for listening. :)

Topic: General Chat / GMS Competition 01 - RTS ($200 1st place, $100 2nd place, $50 3rd place)

Yeah...

Topic: Game Development Issues / GM8 RC Compatibility

Well, you can still add alpha values know, but it's a lot of work. You could
already start coding it though, and have the game look ugly but get the engine
done and adding the sprites with alpha when gm8 comes out.

Topic: Game Development Issues / GM8 RC Compatibility

damn, i started a game in GM7 aaaaaaggggggggggeeeeeeeeesss ago, and accidently
opened and saved it in the second GM8 beta...
I didn't know about the back up files much then, so i might be a bit stuffed.

Topic: Game Development Issues / Change Colors While Underwater

image_blend Blending color used when drawing the sprite. A value of c_white is
the default. When you specify a different value the image is blended with this
color. This can be used to colorize the sprite on the fly. This variable can
only be set in the Pro Edition!
Not sure how the exact code would look like, but the above should help you with
it. When you only need to draw the top half purple you will need to draw a
square with ... blend from the top of the water to the bottom of the player to
get the desired effect.

Topic: Game Development Issues / Need a rainmaker... sort of..

That is kinda inefficient, making a rain effect by creating an object for every
raindrop would take about 50/500(depending on how big the raindrops would be)
objects. The built in particle effects are way better for this. If you don't
have pro, you could also make a sprite that fills the view with raindrops, and
just repeat that. This would make the game load a bit longer as with the above
method, but it's a lot less heavy on the cpu.

Topic: Suggestion Box / Animation menu for backgrounds!

I mean, honestly, I don't want to have to develop a unique background animator
for every game I make; do you?

Topic: Game Development Issues / x1 problem (Sloved)

yay Im included!

Topic: General Chat / The Pwnage Game

I paint all over ur imagez.

Topic: Game Development Issues / x1 problem (Sloved)

YES.....Finally got it, thanks to the great suggestions....thank you all.
To solve this I actually used both DeathZero02’s and Jacob the Snacob’s idea’s.
The problem was one of the 23 walls was missing a (1) after the x in its CREATE
EVENT and by having this wall as the “child” of the “parent” wall it was
creating a loop and blaming the parent for the unknown var.
And so using Jacob’s idea of drawing the walls individually, I did this as I
checked each code with a fine comb like DeathZero02 said and managed to weed out
that problem......Thanks again for your ideas.....(including you Martho) .