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Weekly Updates: January Week 2

Hullo! So far so good on my new schedule. Knowing in advance that I want to release videos on Wednesdays is doing me a lot of good in terms of planning. I feel like I've rounded off the whole saving ...

Game Maker Studio: Save File Encryption

The basics covered to round basic file management to a close. (for now atleast!)

Text boxes and stuff coming to a tutorial as soon as I decide how deep I want to go with it! pic.twitter.com/SzMWadPPF6 I think either way I'll break down a first video into a really basic set up, th...

Game Maker Studio: Saving and Loading INI files

Weekly Updates: January Week 1!

...and a happy new year! My video this week was based on a highly voted topic both on the spreadsheet and via youtube comments on the original saving tutorial. A few people have asked about encrypt...

Q&A Answers [Part 3 of 3]

Hope you've all had a good christmas. Big update on stuff moving forwards coming very soon. Been visiting family, which was great for me but meant I didn't manage to keep you guys as updated as I wo...

Q&A Answers [Part 2 of 3]

Christmas Q&A Answers [1/3]

Weekly Updates: December Week 2!

Hello! I hope some of you were able to join me last weekend for Ludum Dare 31! I had a great time streaming my game's development over twitch and will definitely be doing this sort of thing more ofte...

Weekly Updates: December Week 1 (Important! Please read and comment!)

Helloooo! I just put up a beefy 40 minute inventory tutorial, but aside from that there's some important stuff I want to talk about this week in regards to my milestone goals. At the start of this m...

AP Talkthrough pt 4

From last week

Inventory Tutorial

This is a big one! A lot of this tutorial was based on a lecture I gave on similar topics at Teesside University. The idea is to show you the fundamentals behind setting up almost any kind of inventor...

AP Talkthrough pt 3

From last week!

Weekly Updates: November Week 4

Annnnnnd I'm back! (I know this update was supposed to come yesterday, but to cut a long story short 'some things came up'.) For those of you who don't know, I'm a fairly avid Street Fighter 4 player...

Teaser

Thank you guys for your patience the last two weeks, some cool stuff is en route. There will be a proper update from me tomorrow but until then here's a teaser of some of the stuff I'm working on.

Weekly Updates: November Week 1

This is a rather late update due to the lack of computer access I've had over the last few days. I'm away from Newcastle generally for a quite some time as of Thursday so while this means there will b...

Collision Masks

Last week's videos! This one is just a short addendum to the animation video but is worth talking about by itself.

Animation Tutorial

Last week's videos!

Another Perspective - Design Talkthrough [Part 2]

Last weeks videos!

Weekly Updates: October Week 4

Good aftermidnight, Patrons! So on Tuesday I finally(!) got myself some solid time at home to sit and get content done. I was able to record two videos worth of footages that I am in the process of e...

Another Perspective - Design Talkthrough [Part 1]

Just catching up with Sunday's video.

Weekly Updates: October Week 3

Helloooo! This one being written early in the morning of Thursday is technically kind of late, but I do what I can. Speaking of late, the AP video I wanted to do has been a bit delayed. (and even the...

Menus Tutorial

As requested!

Weekly Updates: October Week 2

Hello again super heroes! I've been working on a video dealing with game menus as requested by a majority on the voting spreadsheet ( 2014-10-15 22:25:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Weekly Updates: October Week 1

Hello you wonderful wonderful people! While I try to update you guys on all the important things going on with me I've decided this could use more regularity so that you can come to _expect_ updates a...

New welcome video for Patrons

This is what all new patrons should see upon pledging. Figured it was worth sharing with the rest of you. <3

A Physics primer for GM:S

Apologies to those of you for whom this video is pretty basic. But I felt the stuff I discuss here was an important groundwork to establish before diving in with the physics functions.

Physics video script teaser.

http://imgur.com/cEYlFw2 Actually this will end up being a couple of videos. And at least one article too. Hopefully useful. It's take...

I'm 25!

It's been my Birthday this week! Hooray! It's been a bit distracting so hopefully you'll forgive me if only one video makes it out of me this week but it should be up by the end of Sunday :) I've be...

40 Minute dev commentary on Planestroller

I made a loooong commentary video where I talk about the creative and technical process behind my Ludum Dare entry. Hoping to give an insight into rapid game dev as well as the 'game jam' experience.