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🇨🇦 Game Dev ☆ Pixel Artist ☆ Streamer Developing Brew Breaker Agnes & Sprite Drop 「 discord.gg/hfQafXM / http://twitch.tv/grogdev 」

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · Oct 19

Microgame finished! Broom Breaker joins the Loungeware microgame collection, and is playable in your browser~

loungeware.games/play

#gamedev #pixelart

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like I was close with my guesstimating 😁

Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 2d

Believe it or not, at least 15 years!

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 12d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 6d

Any specific questions or things you find confusing?

If you haven't already I'd recommend starting with the space rocks tutorial, even tho it's not a platformer it's a really great entry point

Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 13d

That's dope congrats on the web version! Also got a fast turnaround on removing some of the unneeded buttons from the wasm export, hopefully for next release:

github.com/YoYoGames/Ga...

Building Projects: [GX.games] Ability to remove "QR" and "Console" buttons from exported packages · Issue #12183 · YoYoGames/GameMaker-Bugs

Is your feature request related to a problem? When releasing a web build I want the product to be as clean and minimal as possible, but by default WASM builds have QR buttons, one of them branded w...

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah the gibberish var declarations is really an odd choice :(

Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 17d

This is lovely!

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🎴squp @squp.bsky.social · 17d

The beach!!!! With @thewaddle.bsky.social
#memamorkin #gamedev #pixelart #gamemaker

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 19d

These are rad!

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 22d

You definitely can avoid sub pixels by keeping the application surface the size of the base resolution of your game

Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 22d

Very very satisfying

Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 22d

i now have files named "necromancer poop.mp4" and "cowboy tease.mp4" on my pc

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 24d

+1 for GameMaker for beginners, it's free and the space rocks tutorial is 15 minutes long and a great starting point.

Godot is great as well, or specialized engines like GBStudio, Renpy, RPG Maker.

Best bet is to pick one and dice into a tutorial

How To Make A Classic Arcade Game in GameMaker

YouTube video by GameMaker

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 24d

Happy to hear everything is well! Looking forward to a return stream whenever you're ready 💪

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 26d

Snowstate is clean and handles everything I could need in an fsm. Also struct based!

github.com/sohomsahaun/...

GitHub - sohomsahaun/SnowState: Finite State Machine for GameMaker

Finite State Machine for GameMaker. Contribute to sohomsahaun/SnowState development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Heavy Lunch Studio | Hermit and Pig⏩Steam Next Fest @heavylunchco.bsky.social · 26d

👴🏽🐷Hermit and Pig releases on Steam January 22, 2026! The countdown is on! Wishlist now: store.steampowered.com/app/2408350/...

#gamingnews #indiegame #gamedev #gamemaker

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 28d

Modern GameMaker is free for non commercial use so you don't gotta buy anything

Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · Sep 11

In modern GameMaker you'd most likely want to be using structs over maps these days, but the idea is still the same.

I've personally had great success with @tabularelf.com's localization library

github.com/tabularelf/l...

GitHub - tabularelf/lexicon: Localization System for GameMaker

Localization System for GameMaker. Contribute to tabularelf/lexicon development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · Sep 11

Doing something like instance_destroy(obj_dog) always gets me :}

Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · Sep 11

No problem glad it helped!

Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · Sep 11

Try the wasm build (gx), it works a lot better and can now export as a zip to be used anywhere

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · Sep 8

I don't care if I end up seeing this screenshot a million times, what great news

Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · Sep 8

I think it used to work maybe in Studio 1 but I've had to use precise per frame on an empty sprite since 2

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yep I keep around a spr_nomask in all my projects. It feels a little janky, but works great. I wish we could just do a mask index = noone tho.

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · Sep 4

When will we stop doing this 😩