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All that combined meant I could figure out which edge was closest to the collision point, and which side of a platform Speck had hit so she could roll along it.

Handling curved surfaces required a bit of extra finesse but was still based around the same concept.

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The solution I came up with was to use ray casts to determine the position of the collision.

I then created a polygon data structure which I used to create the basic shape of platforms, labeling their edges and storing the angle with the rotation of the platform in mind.

Then came moving platforms...

Tiles are static, so those weren't going to work.
Object collisions would be better but those don't tell you what side of an object was hit, or even where the collision actually occurred.

This was going to be a pretty major problem.

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With the first pass of bouncing working, it was back to core mechanics; improving stability of fast movement around corners, which was hard as Speck REALLY wanted to go through the ground 😅

And also getting momentum building up walls working 😎

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Had a rare bug, hard to reproduce when playing normally.
Very hard to debug!

Built a debug tool to consistently launch Speck from x position in x direction to reliably reproduce the bug scenario.

From there took about 10 minutes to step through the code and fix.
Hell yeah 😎

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The filter function is quite cool because unlike the json_stringify function built into #GameMaker, it can omit keys from a struct entirely.

I'm using this to allow me to store private values within the settings struct, which aren't saved externally but can still be accessed the same way in game.

Game Maker Struct util functions. Merge, Filter, Save and Load Game Maker Struct util functions. Merge, Filter, Save and Load - scr_structFuncs.gml

I'm doing some settings work in #GameMaker which involved filtering, saving, loading and merging structs.

As a result I've written the following simple, but useful struct functions:
- merge
- filter
- save
- load

Sharing to maybe save others some time:
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struct_merge function for Game Maker struct_merge function for Game Maker. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

I wrote a very simple struct merge function for #GameMaker

Comes in handy sometimes, like when loading them from an external JSON.
Probs other uses too.

Figured I'd share, here ya go 😊:

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We have a write-up on how to achieve this effect in GameMaker on our website (with a code snippet) chequered.ink/2-5d-in-game... #gamedev

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Sprite sheet used to create the 3D wheel effect in the previous post.

Made using this sprite sheet:

Yeah nah yeah, very cool effect! 😍

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Sprite stacking 101 🧩
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hello, i just wrote far too much about optimization in #GameMaker

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Terrain

Next up came the bounce mechanic!

This is footage of a first pass at it.
Bounce height is determined by fall height.

An animation curve controls the squish with an adjustable point on the curve controlling the bounce timing.

This was since refined.

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Woah this is really nice!
So juicy! 😍

With the tile-based collisions working and solving many of the edge cases we had before, twas time for some animation!

For this I threw together a utility struct to help manage the playing of #GameMaker s animation curves.
Animation curves are 👌

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Woah this unlocked childhood memories in me :O

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You might be surprised at how much does carry over.
Not sure what version you tried; but I started in Game Maker 7 and the fundamentals are still the same.

GameMaker has matured quite a lot in that though.
Programming-wise there's newer and better ways to do things.

Share to Social Networks from GameMaker Games - Chequered Ink If your game has a social aspect, such as high scores or challenges, you may want your players to be able to share their progress on social media. We've come up with a convenient script for the job ca...

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This is awesome :D

May I suggest adding an enum to hold the different platforms?
Would save user typos and outline every option in GM's intellisense at the same time

So like:
#enum GM_SHARE_PLATFORM {
BLUESKY,
FACEBOOK,
ect
}

That web safe code would be a good separate function too ;)

GitHub - whiplashoo/split-image: A Python package that lets you quickly split an image into rows and columns (tiles). A Python package that lets you quickly split an image into rows and columns (tiles). - whiplashoo/split-image

#Shoutout to split-image by whiplashoo!
A simple python script that makes it super easy to split an image into grid pieces:
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Has come in super handy for Speck; helping us to easily split level art into more manageable pieces without seams or any other nonsense.
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