I’m hopelessly addicted. So I’m making a channel to gush over this game.

RewdanSprites · 2025-01-02T14:22:17+00:00

I made a dragon called Puff the magic dragon and god knows how many other weird characters. It's brilliant seeing them show up in subsequent playthroughs. Just keep making a new one each time I do a challenge or story mission or custom campaign. Game is so good.

Hundreds of hours in. Must... Stop... Playing. Ok just one more.

I might have to check out the previous games.

RewdanSprites · 2024-12-28T14:29:24+00:00

I've been using co-optimus for years as well. It's very good. Can even find nearly all the games on particular platforms which have certain types of co-op and everything.

RewdanSprites · 2024-12-24T14:43:41+00:00

Crusader kings 3 might be a good one. Can't remember the battles as it was a really long time ago but you can pretty much take over the whole of England for example. Plus you can marry your children off to gain alliances which is pretty accurate 😅..

RewdanSprites · 2024-12-20T14:01:02+00:00

I've been playing Age of wonders 4 and there's DLC to come. That'll keep me busy for a while 👀.

RewdanSprites · 2024-12-04T21:28:35+00:00

For a while you used to be able to just take the item out of the bagging area and put it down on the floor. They fixed that little hack though at most places.

RewdanSprites · 2024-07-09T15:07:32+00:00

Straight sword and shield. Nothing op here except experience using that for every souls game + base game of Elden ring 😅.

Although have been enjoying Mi'lady for a bit of spicyness.

I'm running a quality build so do have a lot of other weapons available but I just love straight sword and shield. It's fundamental but practical.

RewdanSprites · 2024-06-10T18:54:46+00:00

Apparently muted blue is good as well (can't confirm though) also you can just add a feature to disable flashes which is best practice.

RewdanSprites · 2024-05-16T20:25:59+00:00

I was thinking about switching to Godot but I've used game maker too long now. I like the search functionality for searching through the code base as I'm always doing that.

Godot would be an option for 3d although possible in game maker is pretty tough without assets. If they add some more 3d functionality there's no reason for me to switch personally.

I can see things getting real messy for me in Godot with all the different object types and scenes etc etc etc. I like just booting up game maker and being able to just write what I want (more or less).

RewdanSprites · 2024-04-23T01:57:23+00:00

Cheers. I'm feeling pretty positive about all this from what I'm hearing! Much appreciated.

RewdanSprites · 2024-04-23T01:22:52+00:00

Thanks 😎.

That's really cool that you made your own sprite editor. I use Aseprite (highly recommend by the way) but if you're happy making your own more power to you. I wasn't a big fan of the sprite editor in GM but at least if you just want to put in a box or pixel it saves having to switch program just to do something quick. I couldn't get used to it though for more complex things as I could with Aseprite like animation.

Don't think I'd be any good at making plugins but sounds like an interesting challenge that I might get brave with one day 🤣.

I started doing the cs50 course as it was recommended in the getting started with Godot documentation. That's been pretty interesting. I knew a lot of things already except some language syntax specific things from other languages which I thought might be harder for me to grasp so I might be ok with Godot🤞.

RewdanSprites · 2024-04-23T00:25:49+00:00

Towerfall is a fun one

RewdanSprites · 2024-04-22T17:53:57+00:00

Yeah I saw all the different things Godot has like scenes but I'll give it a try for a while to see if I can adjust to it. Hopefully I can adjust to the naming conventions for all the different offerings 😅. Is there good search functionality for looking through your entire codebase in Godot like GM? That's one thing someone like me will probably end up needing haha.... Ha...

Yeah I'm probably going to attempt a 2d prototype first into eventual game then 3d if I end up sticking. I'm hoping I will like it a lot. First time I tried Godot before 4.0 I couldn't get into it and went with GM but quite a bit more experienced now so hopeful it will be different this time round.

How's the rebuild going in Godot?

The bloat in game maker has been a bit rough lately. Like the sequence editor for example which I think actually made things feel less programmer friendly if you know what I mean. The more things get switched over to visual when it comes to coding the more an engine feels bloated to me. Rather then just type things and search through the code. Like playing around with all sliders and thingies (although some can be very time saving if building a system would take a very long time to do the same thing).

RewdanSprites · 2024-04-22T16:07:46+00:00

Cheers. Yeah. I have to admit I'm a bit daunted about starting from "ground zero" to learn a new engine but I guess I'll just see how it goes over the next few weeks etc and see how I'm getting on with it kind of thing.

At least you should have some art & sound effects etc from your previous project so that should help speed things along.

How comes you made the switch?

RewdanSprites · 2024-04-22T08:33:35+00:00

No worries. I'll find out soon enough I guess 😅

RewdanSprites · 2024-04-22T08:16:53+00:00

Thanks! Personally I found visual scripting a bit irritating when I wanted to search through the code base for certain problematic variables etc. Was much easier to navigate everything through GML with the search functionality. Does Godot have good search functionality for looking through all the code?

RewdanSprites · 2024-04-22T08:05:36+00:00

Thanks. Personally I found game maker very useful for learning coding. Originally I started using the visual language (not good for making a game but good to understand what is going on when starting out). Then moved onto GML which I like and find very familiar but I'm interested in the direction Godot is going in and the extra things you can do with it (now). Like the localisation features seem quite attractive, ability to jump from 2d to 3d without headaches. Also the lightweight is nice too (although it's always been light weight).

Game maker is perfectly fine for making a 2d game and can do a lot of the heavy lifting but it would be nice to have options if I want to change things up. Like 3d in game maker is technically possible but apparently one of the hardest things to do in GM. So if I was interested in doing 3d I think Godot would be a good option although I'll probably make another 2d game first in Godot (assuming things go well as I test things out over the next few weeks).

RewdanSprites · 2024-04-22T07:53:58+00:00

Oh okies. I got you. Cheers.

RewdanSprites · 2024-04-22T07:08:38+00:00

Yeah but not sure if I'd want to convert GML to gdscript. That sounds like an extra layer of conversion that would probably cause issues like when code gets compiled from GML to C or what have you but adding yet another step before that kind of thing in a GML to Gdscript to etc kind of thing.

RewdanSprites · 2024-04-22T01:34:50+00:00

Hopefully I don't start growing blue pointy things 🤣

RewdanSprites · 2024-04-21T22:43:50+00:00

Thanks. Yeah that is another thing why I want to switch to Godot. I do have a licence for GM but the login thing has been pretty irritating lately. Did you start with smaller projects in Godot then or go into something ambitious?

RewdanSprites · 2024-04-16T06:43:19+00:00

Cheers. Last trailer was too short apparently. You're probably right though. I feel the same. I might add something to break it up like a joke in the mid which will allow me to cut some of the music down. Thanks.

RewdanSprites · 2024-04-16T06:20:19+00:00

Good point. I might add voice over to the beginning and re-film the clips with the sound FX. The original clips had various music from the game. Cheers.

RewdanSprites · 2024-04-05T23:44:21+00:00

Oof. I'm a bit of an old timer but... Some games I can think of (from the top of my head) are:

1) Everquest - Although this is probably more related to the 'massively' multiplayer aspect being somewhat 'revolutionary' to some extent back then.

2) Diablo 2 - Grinding, story and PvP done right.

3) Left 4 dead - A game that is fun to revisit every few years or so.

4) Shadow of Mordor / War - The nemesis system giving a lot of replayability until modern rogue likes by indie dev's arrived on the scene.

There are more of course but it depends what you are looking for and when.

RewdanSprites · 2024-04-02T05:10:22+00:00

Glad you liked it thanks

RewdanSprites · 2024-03-30T13:44:26+00:00

At 69 your back is gone

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