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Weekly Updates: January Week 2

Hullo! So far so good on my new schedule. Knowing in advance that I want to release videos on Wednesdays is doing me a lot of good in terms of planning. I feel like I've rounded off the whole saving files stuff reasonably enough and touched upon all the necessary elements. At the moment developin...

Game Maker Studio: Save File Encryption

The basics covered to round basic file management to a close. (for now atleast!)

Text boxes and stuff coming to a tutorial as soon as I decide how deep I want to go with it! pic.twitter.com/SzMWadPPF6 I think either way I'll break down a first video into a really basic set up, there's all sorts of stuff I've been adding or thinking about for it though and regardless of what oth...

Game Maker Studio: Saving and Loading INI files

Weekly Updates: January Week 1!

...and a happy new year! My video this week was based on a highly voted topic both on the spreadsheet and via youtube comments on the original saving tutorial. A few people have asked about encrypting their save files so this is something I might look into for the next video just to round off the...

Q&A Answers [Part 3 of 3]

Hope you've all had a good christmas. Big update on stuff moving forwards coming very soon. Been visiting family, which was great for me but meant I didn't manage to keep you guys as updated as I would have liked. As I said, many words from me soon. Also now I'm back home the video engine is mov...

Q&A Answers [Part 2 of 3]

Christmas Q&A Answers [1/3]

Weekly Updates: December Week 2!

Hello! I hope some of you were able to join me last weekend for Ludum Dare 31! I had a great time streaming my game's development over twitch and will definitely be doing this sort of thing more often. For those unaware I've also been streaming on and off the last couple of days this week doing cr...

Weekly Updates: December Week 1 (Important! Please read and comment!)

Helloooo! I just put up a beefy 40 minute inventory tutorial, but aside from that there's some important stuff I want to talk about this week in regards to my milestone goals. At the start of this month I lost a couple of you guys, which is by itself sad but also makes me feel I need to make somet...

AP Talkthrough pt 4

From last week

Inventory Tutorial

This is a big one! A lot of this tutorial was based on a lecture I gave on similar topics at Teesside University. The idea is to show you the fundamentals behind setting up almost any kind of inventory system using Arrays to store items, how to go about drawing it to the screen and how to use script...

AP Talkthrough pt 3

From last week!

Weekly Updates: November Week 4

Annnnnnd I'm back! (I know this update was supposed to come yesterday, but to cut a long story short 'some things came up'.) For those of you who don't know, I'm a fairly avid Street Fighter 4 player. Like, when I say avid, I mean I often visit and even _personally run_ regional level tournaments f...

Teaser

Thank you guys for your patience the last two weeks, some cool stuff is en route. There will be a proper update from me tomorrow but until then here's a teaser of some of the stuff I'm working on.

Weekly Updates: November Week 1

This is a rather late update due to the lack of computer access I've had over the last few days. I'm away from Newcastle generally for a quite some time as of Thursday so while this means there will be a delay to this week (and possibly next week's) content, you'll be happy to know that I have a bii...

Collision Masks

Last week's videos! This one is just a short addendum to the animation video but is worth talking about by itself.

Animation Tutorial

Last week's videos!

Another Perspective - Design Talkthrough [Part 2]

Last weeks videos!

Weekly Updates: October Week 4

Good aftermidnight, Patrons! So on Tuesday I finally(!) got myself some solid time at home to sit and get content done. I was able to record two videos worth of footages that I am in the process of editing together for uploading tomorrow (Thursday). This includes the second 30 minute part of my AP...

Another Perspective - Design Talkthrough [Part 1]

Just catching up with Sunday's video.

Weekly Updates: October Week 3

Helloooo! This one being written early in the morning of Thursday is technically kind of late, but I do what I can. Speaking of late, the AP video I wanted to do has been a bit delayed. (and even the Menus video came later than I was hoping) I've had some annoying problems making videos lately as m...

Menus Tutorial

As requested!

Weekly Updates: October Week 2

Hello again super heroes! I've been working on a video dealing with game menus as requested by a majority on the voting spreadsheet ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F...

Weekly Updates: October Week 1

Hello you wonderful wonderful people! While I try to update you guys on all the important things going on with me I've decided this could use more regularity so that you can come to _expect_ updates as opposed to merely recieving them on my whims. As such I've decided that every week (going with Wed...

New welcome video for Patrons

This is what all new patrons should see upon pledging. Figured it was worth sharing with the rest of you. <3

A Physics primer for GM:S

Apologies to those of you for whom this video is pretty basic. But I felt the stuff I discuss here was an important groundwork to establish before diving in with the physics functions.

Physics video script teaser.

http://imgur.com/cEYlFw2 Actually this will end up being a couple of videos. And at least one article too. Hopefully useful. It's taken me a while to decide on the best way of talking about this!

I'm 25!

It's been my Birthday this week! Hooray! It's been a bit distracting so hopefully you'll forgive me if only one video makes it out of me this week but it should be up by the end of Sunday :) I've been doing some research on how to put some of these more complicated subjects together so some cool s...

40 Minute dev commentary on Planestroller

I made a loooong commentary video where I talk about the creative and technical process behind my Ludum Dare entry. Hoping to give an insight into rapid game dev as well as the 'game jam' experience.