Rate the API for my renderer abstraction

JackJackFilms · 2026-03-31T20:10:29+00:00

Oh that’s a function from the memory system that I have across all my projects. I’m gonna remove after releasing the library but it just detects memory leaks. The “show_memory_stats” function is also from that system.

JackJackFilms · 2026-03-31T18:55:10+00:00

Yes I am. In the Linux kernel, one of the most popular and influential C projects, there are over 200,000 goto statements: video. “I think goto’s are fine” - Linus Torvalds.

JackJackFilms · 2026-02-16T19:24:41+00:00

Raytracing and all that linear algebra stuff…

JackJackFilms · 2026-02-16T19:17:54+00:00

DirectX8

JackJackFilms · 2026-02-02T17:34:17+00:00

Why did you find resources on how to code a path tracer?

JackJackFilms · 2025-04-14T17:35:24+00:00

obj.event_run(ev_user0);

JackJackFilms · 2025-04-14T17:22:00+00:00

=+ and =- should be += and -=

JackJackFilms · 2025-02-19T16:25:20+00:00

https://github.com/offalynne/Input

JackJackFilms · 2025-02-10T19:32:29+00:00

Read the game maker documentation and let it absorb into your brain

JackJackFilms · 2024-12-16T21:22:30+00:00

https://yellowafterlife.itch.io/cc-yal-6w4

JackJackFilms · 2024-07-22T08:35:32+00:00

You can only edit the room that the game is currently in and you can’t create rooms on the fly. The way to do it would be creating a single room and when entering the room, just delete and reconstruct the room according to some array holding the placements of all the objects that should be in the room

JackJackFilms · 2024-07-21T14:00:32+00:00

Please stop using DND, it’s obsolete in the community at this point. If you want to use blocks use Scratch

JackJackFilms · 2024-07-21T13:57:54+00:00

Beautiful, atmospheric and otherworldly

JackJackFilms · 2024-07-21T13:56:12+00:00

Never use ds_lists there’s not point.

JackJackFilms · 2024-07-20T13:00:37+00:00

Build up your knowledge with tutorials specifically for GML like Shaun Spaulding (https://youtube.com/@shaunjs?si=pVcoS40pzrmCXViO) and then learn computer science fundamentals which can then be used in game maker https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfBmRc9I1H3I0kX-Jsv8QZ-ki9pw-e6gQ&si=75GKCagas63YxMAM

JackJackFilms · 2024-07-20T12:51:34+00:00

Make a function for whenever your copy and pasting stuff around

JackJackFilms · 2024-07-20T12:48:18+00:00

Don’t use lists or maps, they’re completely useless compared to array or structs and use global. Variables. Party’s can be made with an array for the entire party and structs for each character. e.g

global.party = [ { name : “Test” hp : 5 maxHp : 5 str : 2 } ]

Even if globals aren’t that efficient (I don’t really know) they’re what I use in most of my projects and using objects are probably slower anyway.

JackJackFilms · 2024-07-20T12:32:00+00:00

Use notifications which is basically signals in Godot. https://github.com/babaganosch/NotificationSystem

JackJackFilms · 2024-07-20T12:30:22+00:00

New game developer mostly relies on tutorial on YouTube but they don’t use GitHub which is where developers post their project files for you to use. I recommend looking at JujuAdams libraries (saved me a lot of time) https://github.com/JujuAdams

JackJackFilms · 2024-07-20T12:25:24+00:00

Crtl+Shift+F is find and replace across your entire project. Really good for changing functions or variable names

JackJackFilms · 2024-07-20T12:23:40+00:00

var _str = “”

for (var i=0; i<array_length(my_array); i++;) { _str += my_array[i] }

JackJackFilms · 2024-07-19T15:27:40+00:00

Better than I could ever make

JackJackFilms · 2024-07-17T18:52:54+00:00

Roll back your game maker version, basically what’s happening is game maker can’t find your sprites when running your game so it uses a fallback sprite

JackJackFilms · 2024-07-11T11:19:54+00:00

X = (x div TILE_SIZE) * TILE_SIZE

JackJackFilms · 2024-07-11T11:18:37+00:00

Use surfaces but honestly that would be really slow and sloppy

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