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Week 38 - How on earth is it October.

Hello everybody! I just got back from something I didn't tell you about. I popped to the Isle of Man at the weekend. I went on a trike tour with my brother and sister around the TT race course - something my dad was a huge fan of - and we stopped at Windy Corner to deliver his final wish and spread his ashes there.

We're sure ...

Livestream pushed back a day

Hello! Yesterday I suggested (although only via a parenthesised "(Tomorrow?)" but hey it was implied) I'd be streaming submitted games today but I'm going to push that back to tomorrow. Hopefully early afternoon UK time through to around 5:30ish. I'll pop a thing on YouTube so people can see it coming too.

Want to prepare a li...

Week 37 - I've had better!

I'll be honest, it's been a bit of a weird and rough week. I've developed a a not-too-painful but very persistent headache that seems to come and go especially in the evenings. Its been screwing with my sleep a lot and leaving me feeling very tired throughout the day. Painkillers help but I always feel very reluctant to use them...

Submit your games for a showcase video

As requested, as mentioned in recent updates, and as above!

Week 36 - Lots of new plates!

Last week we wrapped up the Platformer Series, at least internally we did. Publicly that video comes out this week.

If you're a $5+ supporter I've just launched a 2018-09-17 15:06:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Patron Topic Poll

This list mostly covers options related to topics I've encountered myself in recent projects that I think with a bit of research and editing flair I could deliver a super good video on. This is hopefully where the work I've done on my own games and my own growth as a developer can feed back into my teaching work!

"Melee attack...

[Early access] Final Platformer Episode!

Source code: https://shaunjs.itch.io/shauns-complete-platformer-tutorial-series

This part handles 3 small tweaks that I managed to cram into one feature-packed episode. We improve the hit sparks, make the signpost input &...

Week 35 - It's my birthday!

Hallooo! 

Last week we put out another Platformer episode. This week we'll be doing the same! If there's any *small* features you'd like to see in the platformer or polishing touches you want to know how to accomplish. Now is the time to speak ...

Declined Payments

TL;DR: Patreon have had issues lately, please just take a second to check that your payments are going through ok. The vast majority of you should be fine.

Hello! Video is on its way, just wanted to drop some info about some issues I heard Patreon is having with payments recently in particular.

This is w...

Week 34 - Finishing up the Platformer

TL;DR: This week I'm working on a platformer episode again, it might be the last one, it might be the second to last one. Not yet sure! After that we'll do some Patron selected topics.

The platformer series will be wrapping up with either one, or two more episodes. I have at least a couple of things I want to touch on but it d...

Platformer Episode 25 - Endings!

Bit later than usual on this one. Sorry about that!

Setting up a couple of different simple endings to the game. Covers showing multiple lines of text, variables within text, quotations marks within strings and also manipulating sprites on asset layers.

This rounds off the project quite nicely I think but there's some lo...

Week 33 - The road to Ad Free!

So it's been a pretty big couple of weeks in terms of my patreon 'growth'. We're suddenly within reach of a goal I wasn't sure we'd ever hit with Patreon revenue alone. So I want to talk a bit about how exactly my $1500 goal will work should we hit it.

So as described, with $1500 a month my ad revenue from YouTube becomes triv...

[Progress] Platformer Part 25

The code is now more-or-less ready for this part, but the video will be at least a couple(?) more days. We have branching endings based on a couple of variables. Scrolling text, scrolling multiple lines of text - which I know some people have wanted since the signpost video - and mostly a combination of previously cover...

Week 32 - Podcasts and Timelapses

Hope y'all like blue* text because we got links for days in this update.

Last Friday saw the Complete Platformer Tutorial part 23 go public and part 24 2018-08-20 15:23:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Platformer Part 24 - Globals & Player choices

So this is a quick part. It's something I wanted to put into the game to set up the "Endings" episode, that is almost not enough to put in its own episode, but enough to make mixing it with the next episode produce a really bloated video. So here it is in a ten minute piece instead.

This mostly reinforces the lessons of part 2...

Week 32 - FIREBALL.

Last week we got not one but two videos out! Look at me go. All just in time for the weekend where I streamed Ludum Dare 42 and it was a HOOT!

It's a local multiplayer (only, sadly) game about breaking the ground underneath one anothe...

Platformer Part 23 - Score Tracking

So we've already covered drawing text to the GUI, but this part looks at how to include variables in that text, how to transform text, and how to track a simple score across levels & save files.

A simple part with important lessons and our first global variables!

Live to the public next Friday. Enjoy!

-S

Multiple Collisions Tutorial

So I mentioned making a quick video on the new 2.1.5 collision functions? Here it is! It actually kinda was quick.

It's mostly what I did in the livestream explained.

Enjoy!

PS: Also, LUDUM DARE 42 is this weekend! I'm not totally sure if I'll be...

Week 31 - Version 2.1.5!

Some of you might have seen my livestream that shortly followed the going-live of the latest Platformer episoder. We checked out a bunch of the changes to GMS2 in the newest update. Go check out the footage of that stream 2018-08-06 10:35:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Platformer Part 22 - Fullscreen & GUI Issues

What's slightly maddening about this episode is that to look at it, you'd wonder what took so long? But yeesh. Lots of silly issues both easily avoidable and less easily avoidable to dodge and fix and re-record with this one. In the end I did the whole thing more or less from scratch but now I'm happy that it's pretty solid.

I...

Week 30 - Resolution is a toughy

I don't know if I ever explained the week count that I apply to these updates. I count the weeks mostly for myself, starting with the first week of the year. Part of doing these updates is for myself, too. Even though plans ebb and change constantly it helps a lot to keep track of what I've accomplished in a given week and what ...

Progress: Fullscreen platformer

Part 21 has just gone live on YouTube but part 22 is going to have to wait a few days. What was supposed to be a very short tutorial about making a few quick code changes to allow full screen in the platformer avoiding the draw gui glitches that come with using the built in options, has unfortunately been harder to make than I t...

Patron Topic Poll

In the last poll, Raeldor suggested a video on "A proper resizeable GUI". This got a lot of interest but similar to the "Rope swing" stuff I think it's possible that a lot of people interpret that topic as meaning whatever is most useful to them which could be many different things. I'll do my best if this is selected to cover w...

Week 29 - Forgot to run a poll again.

But despite forgetting to run a poll I'm pretty happy with the steam I've picked up again with videos. Rather than run some sort of 24 hour poll and gun straight into work on the next patron topic video, I'm going to take some time to curate the topics for the poll, put it out tomorrow and spend the rest of the week working on t...

Platformer part 21

This part covers having the enemies shoot back at the player.

Public on Friday as always!

Will be updating the itch page with the new source code later today. 

Next up on the Platformer - Levelling the playing field

I wasn't originally going to cover this, enjoying how much the game unambiguously posed the player as the Villain All Along but it's been requested a lot and I think it's worth showing how to tackle the concept of having the enemy Fight Back.

After all, the approach to creating something that responds to player input is quite ...

Week 28 - Slow careful and steady

New video has just gone out to $5 supporters and will be live publically on Friday. Source code is also up here if you're in a massive hurry to learn how rope swings ...

Rope Swing Tutorial

Bit of an epic journey towards what ended up a relatively straightforward twenty five minute video, but we finally got there.

Source code: https://shaunjs.itch.io/shauns-rope-swinging

For $5+ supporters, click the link at the top of the ...

MiniUpdate: Video is done! sort of!

The ropeswing video is fully edited, I just need to sort the audio levels out and render the thing. (Then Thumbnail, source code page, upload, description, yada yada) Unfortunately Adobe Audition is refusing to start. And most of my other Adobe tools (Premiere, et al) have been stalling all day. So given it's now... 7pm here I'm...

Week 27 - The Magic Line Of Code™

First of all: Thank you all so much. Thank you for the support you've given over the past few weeks while I've not been able to do the work I usually could. As a creator in a time where there is so much pressure to never-stop-putting-things-out, to have only made one video in the last.. four? five weeks? Feels atrocious...