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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 · 7h

Live again @pixelatedpope.bsky.social for some more #gamemaker #gamedev!

🔴 twitch.tv/grogdev

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Game Developer & Pixel Artist working on Desukupet, a desktop virtual pet device that lives on your screen! Follow development on Bluesky & Discord~

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 6d

Live with some #gamemaker dev joined by @pixelatedpope.bsky.social !

twitch.tv/grogdev

GrogDEV - Twitch

Game Developer & Pixel Artist working on Desukupet, a desktop virtual pet device that lives on your screen! Follow development on Bluesky & Discord~

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 10d

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

Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 12d

This is lovely!

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🎴squp @squp.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 14d

These are rad!

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 16d

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

Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 17d

Very very satisfying

Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 17d

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

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 19d

+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 · 19d

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

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Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 21d

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 @heavylunchco.bsky.social · 21d

👴🏽🐷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 · 23d

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

Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 28d

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 · 28d

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

Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 28d

No problem glad it helped!

Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · 28d

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 😩

Grog @grogdev.bsky.social · Aug 30

Hell yeah 💪