Where's Wally?

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Time: 22:17

Been a while since my last post so what have I been up to? Been slowly working my way through Farming RPG Tutorial: GMS2 by FriendlyCosmonaut. I've been enjoying working through a different perspective to coding as well as. I've learned allot more about using arrays and data structures. Although I'll probably never end up making a farming style I've always had a thing for tower defence style games and there's allot I can use from this tutorial in that respect.

The more advance speech system, which I am almost finished going through, allows for much more flexibility than the one in my previous game. I'll admit I probably should have followed the tutorial a bit more closely as some changes I made early on are coming back to haunt me! Although I can't see there really being a game worth releasing at the this it has been a great learning experience.

Another fun learning experience was playing with the day night cycle, which again I may or may not use in its current state but may just have different areas have differing effects.

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Return to Sender

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Time: 00:49

Sometimes it can be nice to return back to the beginnings of a project and use everything you've learned previously to improve upon what came before. Likewise it can be interesting to change things slightly, this time I will be using a 4 directional control system as opposed to 8 directional I used in Legend of the Shades. Following a different tutorial as a basic guide also brings with it some new perspectives in how things can be organised and different methods tasks can be achieved. Although this particular tutorial uses an object based collision system I will be sticking to the tile based one I previously used.

This particular tutorial was sadly never completed however I'm hoping again build something at least playable by the end. In a way I'm looking forward to being left with some more open ended tasks to complete on my own, assuming there aren't too many things left unfinished in the tutorial itself.

Shout out to FriendlyCosmonaut for these tutorials, I'll be adding various links to my homepage (one day this may have it's own section on my site if you can't find it).

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