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General Update

Hello! Given it's been a little while since my last video came out I thought y'all were due a small update!

I'll come back around to adding a bit more the inventory mini-series I've started b...

Secret Project is out!

Some of you might recall when I was frustratingly vague about a decision to take on *even more work* at a time I had l...

Inventory Mouse Control

Sorry this one took forever! A whole lot of moving rectangles around in after effects. Enjoy!

Source code has been uploaded here: 2021-09-12 20:05:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Inventory Mouse Control [Progress]

This one is taking me a little while! There's quick and dirty ways I've written this before but given how clean our base inventory was I wanted to write something good/generic to match it with the ...

State Machines in v2.3

Nice to have an up to date video on the topic, and a shorter, cleaner one to boot! 

This video will go public tomorrow, enjoy!

-S

Sub only pricing for GameMaker

First two minutes are strictly info, the following seven are background, opinion, etc.

I could have made this video much longer, there's a lot of common complaints I could have addressed and ...

Inventory Tutorial

It's here! Full resolution probably still processing as I type this.

Source code links etc are in the video description and this video will go public some time tomorrow.

As I discussed ...

ARPG - Final Episode

(2021-07-13 14:53:36 +0000 UTC View Post

The final (final) ((final v2.1)) stretch

The script is done for ARPG ep51! 

Every week the end has felt so close and yet so far, every bit of work revealing yet a little bit more work that needed doing. But here we finally (fin...

ARPG Episode 49 + 50 Out now

• Episode 49 - Loading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpHEY939cXQ (public now)
• Episode 50 - Pause ...
  2021-07-02 22:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post

ARPG Episode 48 - Saving

Very similar to the saving and loading tutorials I've made independently of this series, here's how to do it in a big ol' project!

Source code live soon here: 2021-06-17 14:19:11 +0000 UTC View Post

ARPG Episode 47 - Item Shop #2

Actually buying items from the shop! Most of this is handled by the dialogue + responses system we set up way back when with a new function for giving you the items themselves and deducting the mon...

ARPG Episode 46 - Item Shop (part 1)

An annoying amount of just setting stuff up, but it needed doing! The more interesting code for this will be next episode.

Episode will be live in a few hours when the HD resolution finishes ...

ARPG Episode 45 - Pots and Rocks

It's another clean up + adding Stuff episode! Back to writing actual code next time I promise.

Source co...

Post ARPG Content Plan & PokeyPoke

TL;DR - I'm going to be making a Game (PokeyPoke) & doing new one-off tutorials based on polls.

Hey everyone!

We're coming towards the end of the ARPG seri...

ARPG Episode 44 - Auto Tiling

Weird topic to cover 44 episodes in but here we are! Mostly a bit of a cleanup episode and episode 45 is going to be similar. There's a few things we've glossed over or put off that are very minor ...

Patreon Credits Test - Feedback requested!

So I talked a little while ago about how I wanted to find a way to streamline producing the credits sequence on my videos. How the number of $20 supporters means that recording all of the names, wh...

Two new ARPG Episodes, Rough ARPG roadmap update

Hello!

Everyone at the $5 tier or above can now watch episodes 41 and 42 of the ARPG series.

• 2021-04-15 16:19:56 +0000 UTC View Post

ARPG Episode 42 - Hook shot #2

★ Source Code ▶ https://shaunjs.itch.io/shauns-action-rpg-tutorial

(If the episode isn't there i...

ARPG Episode 41 - Hook Shot #1

★ Source Code ▶ https://shaunjs.itch.io/shauns-action-rpg-tutorial

(If the episode isn't there i...

Two new ARPG Episodes live for $5+ tier

Hello!

Everyone at the $5 tier or above can now watch episodes 39 and 40 of the ARPG series.

• Episode 39<...
  2021-03-22 21:39:00 +0000 UTC View Post

ARPG Episode 40 - Bow & Arrows

★ Source Code ▶ https://shaunjs.itch.io/shauns-action-rpg-tutorial

(If the episode isn't there i...

ARPG Episode 39 - Equipment Cycling

★ Source Code ▶ https://shaunjs.itch.io/shauns-action-rpg-tutorial

(If the episode isn't there i...

Three new ARPG Episodes live for $5+ tier

Hello!

Everyone at the $5 tier or above can now watch episodes 36 through 38 of the ARPG series.

• Episode...
  2021-03-15 14:40:10 +0000 UTC View Post

ARPG Episode 38 - Item drop lists

★ Source Code ▶ https://shaunjs.itch.io/shauns-action-rpg-tutorial

(If the episode isn't there i...

ARPG Episode 37 - Using equipped items

★ Source Code ▶ https://shaunjs.itch.io/shauns-action-rpg-tutorial

(If the episode isn't there i...

ARPG Episode 36 - Equipped Item UI

★ Source Code ▶ https://shaunjs.itch.io/shauns-action-rpg-tutorial

(If the episode isn't there i...

March General Update

Hello everybody!

It's been a while since I made any update posts, I've mostly tried to keep my head in my work and just get through a lot of stuff. But it's time I get you all up to date.

ARPG Episode 35 - Coins UI

Hey everybody! 

This episode has been 'done' for a little while but I had some rendering difficulties. I've picked up a new M2 harddrive that I hope will speed a few things up as I reali...

New Feature - Nine Slicing!

In continued efforts by YoYo to render my old tutorial work entirely obsolete you can now automatically create nine slices in version 2.3.2 without any scripting whatsoever!

In version 2.3.2 ...