Just arrived at local yacht club to check if anyone's here.

 

I Perlin noise.

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PLEASE MAKE A SCREENSAVER OUT OF THAT!  

Finished second in a sailing compo (with Zoom8)
Beat that guys

[Fast-paced Multiplayer FPS + Braid]

Fast-paced Multiplayer FPS + Braid
Insanity. Whenever someone dies, he'll rewind time, and the match will never end.

A bit offtopic but related;
I suggest someone should make Indie Developer Skill-level System Self-Evaluation Chart.

Make it a roguelike or something like that. I want to see how well random levels/enemies(/plot) would work in a zombie-shooter.

My first thought is to just have 500 boolean values for each task. "Did or did he not complete 'x' task." The obvious problem is that 500 global variables will slow down the game (I'm assuming).

Does anyone have any suggestions or strategies for me?

500 global variables slowing down the game? Probably not. But it might be tedious to initialize those all in code or something like that. Perhaps you should put all story-related vatiables to a global array, and have constants (as a name) for each variable. So you could access those like this: global.storyVar[BeginnerQuestStatus]
Also writing all variables to save file is lot easier with an array.

Hopefully that helped

Do we have a skype thread to post our skype usernames? I need some more tig peeps in my contacts list.

Agreed!

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Epic first post! Welcome to Tigsville!

A enemy editor in GM for GM which exports GML-code(to somewhere?)used to generate those enemies and I'll have to copypaste that code to the GM.

But it's worth it!

They made a separate contract for commercial use of the sprites. Atleast they did that for my animations. And probably with Oryx also.

[oProjectile]

This should fix it.

Code:

var projectile;
projectile = instance_create(x,y,oProjectile)

if face=LEFT
{
projectile.direction = 180
}
else
{
projectile.direction = 0
}

In original code you used object id, not instance id, so it caused all projectiles to change direction
oProjectile.direction = 180 is wrong

I fixed it guys, no worries

But if anyone knows how to make the screen scroll in from the direction you're headed, let me know! (Again, look at LoZ if you don't know what I mean, conceptually)

I'm not sure if there is a room transitions extension for GM(99% Sure that there is)
But that desired effect can also be achieved with surfaces. I wont go to any details as Im busy right now, and if you wanna figure it out by yourself

Progress! Make your own conclusions.

[object]

The object should move to contact with groupHurtSolid. I tried some sort of for-loop to sweep until it collides, but this code gives veeeeerryyyy buggy and weird results. move_contact_solid would work perfectly, but I can't use solid objects for enemies cause it would screw up all other collisions. move_contact_all is not suitable either. (Project is Megalonia for Action 52 owns in case someone wants to know)

Code:

startXOffset = 0
width = 8
scanAccuracy = 2
originalX = x
if(global.shipdirection = RIGHT){
    image_xscale = 1
}
else{
    image_xscale = -1
}

if(global.shipdirection = RIGHT){
    ship = o_ship.id
    
    for(ix = 0 ;ix + x < 600 + originalX;ix+=scanAccuracy){
        if(collision_ellipse(bbox_left+ix,bbox_top,bbox_right+ix,bbox_right,groupHurtSolid,true,true)){
            x += ix
            break
        }
    }
    
    
}
else{ //If it was like this it would work
    move_contact_solid(180,1000)
    ship = o_shipleft.id

}
y = ship.y + ship.cannonLocY

I've probably done some stupid mistake somewhere... maybe.

[Edit] Of course the best scenario is if there is a general script like move_contact(dir,max,object)

Become a ridiculous B-movie connoisseur.

Like this?

What about a movie demake compo? People could find a movie they like (or dislike) and DEMAKE IT. I've always like demakes.

This.

Could players attempt to steal from those "Dungeon supplies inc"-shops, roguelike-style? Except that noone won't even try because all shopkeepers are so badass killing machines.