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Author Archives: Timon Knigge
So you want the GameMaker 8 style in Studio
Although GameMaker:Studio is a jolly good piece of software, it looks very unprofessional and depressing. The old GameMaker 8(.1) layout was a lot better in my opinion – cleaner, simpler, brighter, more in the same style as other programs you would use along with it. Half a year ago I made a blog post called [...]
Creative Game Challenge 2012-2013
A heads-up for those that are eligible to participate: the Creative Game Challenge 2012-2013 just started! Or more accurately, the website is finally available. The new design looks pretty smooth compared to the old, flash-ridden look. I’m not yet sure if I will be able to participate (even though it’s my last chance) – I’m [...]
About that HTML5 game
About that HTML5 game I was planning on making .. In the blog post I promised on posting some updates about the development on this blog. Obviously that didn’t happen. The game itself is finished though. It’s not a bad game, but it’s not a very good game either. I won’t be posting it here [...]
GM Studio HTML5 – draw_self() is causing trouble
After spending more than an hour trying to fix some weird bug in my HTML5 game, I feel I have the right to complain about this: draw_self() does some weird things in HTML5 games made with GameMaker Studio. As you might know I am currently developing an HTML5 game, and this afternoon I was working [...]
Updates on the tutorials section
As you probably hadn’t noticed, I just hit the double digits with my tutorials section! There’s now a grand total of 10 tutorials – all of them about GameMaker (although I plan on writing some for other languages or IDE’s, too). Besides working on the tutorials content-wise, I also added a general ‘footer’ beneath the [...]
HTML5 project
So I’m probably going to make an HTML5-game soon. But it’ll be about more than just making a game. I’m currently in the Dutch “V6″, which is basically the same as the American “Grade 12″ or “Senior”. Each year, everyone has to do a big, final paper. It can be about anything, really, but it [...]
GameMaker:Studio settings you should change to make it even better
UPDATE! If you just want to change the style of GameMaker:Studio to the old GM8(.1) style, check out this post. One of the first things I did when I got GameMaker:Studio was browsing through its settings menu’s, because that’s were you usually find either the hints to the hidden gems, or the hidden gems themselves. [...]
GameMaker:Studio Semi-Public Beta
Good news! YoYoGames’ GameMaker:Studio has finally moved into a (semi-)public beta stage. Today, everyone who bought GameMaker:HTML5 before February 27th, 2012, recieved an email from YoYoGames with a link to the beta. GameMaker:Studio is an extended version of GameMaker:Standard, and it’ll allow you to export to platforms other than Windows. The list now consists of [...]