Game Making Tools

Hardware and technical stuff
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Sweet, thanks for the update. It’s always fun to see how graphics problems are solved in extreme low resolution situations…

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Any experience with it?

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I’ve never used it but I’ve read good things. Godot is so good with 2D that I’m not super compelled to try.

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Yeah it looks a bit like a cut-down Godot

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Here’s a fun little hex tileset (free) from Kenney.nl

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Thanks for the tip! Those are pretty sweet and would totally work for prototyping one game idea I’ve been toying around with.

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https://sheepolution.com/blog/gamedev/how-i-made-a-game-played-in-notepad/

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Heh reminds me of this:

edit: Oh the guy was actually inspired by the ‘Notepad’ game :D

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That’s a good shout, @scharmers, thanks.

Not quite what I’m looking for but I guess wizards could be spaceships if they wanted to, right?

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Here’s a Godot Engine game for the Switch

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I’ve tried to get my kid to learn Gamemaker Studio now for 2 months …with the virus keeping everyone at home, it’s the perfect time to make games. I bought him a Udemy tutorial that is excellent and even though he says he wants to be a game producer, I told him if he would just do the tutorial, he could make a quick game and get it on the APP Store as a start to his “dream.” “Sorry, dad, I’m too lazy to learn to code” OMG.

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Just remind him that “lazy” and “successful game producer” are mutually exclusive.

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Pretty cool:

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GameMaker Studio 2 is on sale until July 9. If you absolutely despise free quality game engines like Godot, maybe blowing a wad of cash on GM2 will help make your day.

The GameMaker Studio 2 Summer Sale is here! Grab some of the following 25% off deals on GameMaker Studio 2 licences:

  • GameMaker Studio 2 Creator: $29 USD
  • GameMaker Studio 2 Desktop: $74 USD
  • GameMaker Studio 2 Web: $110 USD
  • GameMaker Studio 2 Mobile: $145 USD
  • GameMaker Studio 2 UWP: $145 USD
  • GameMaker Studio 2 PS4: $595 USD
  • GameMaker Studio 2 Xbox One: $595 USD
  • GameMaker Studio 2 Nintendo Switch: $595 USD
  • GameMaker Studio 2 Ultimate: $1,100 USD

Offers ends July 9th .

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Probably there’s a better thread for this but I can’t find it.

Opened source for a well-respected game:

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Humble Bundle has a good $1 tier for an online course about game math.

I’m sure you could find a lot of math stuff on youtube put the presentation here is solid and they’re tackling it specifically from a game development point of view.

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Hey guys, I am wondering if anyone can make me a recommendation to help me realise my dream game that I have had in my head for a decade.

I am looking for something that can do something quite simple in the easiest way possible: basically the game screen in my head is a map broken up into tiles, and I want functionality to be able to drag and drop stuff between parts of the map using the mouse. Of course I also want other screens which have buttons and present strings, numbers, and images.

That’s it really, no animation needed beyond the dragging/dropping, no video, no 3d models. Of course, behind the game will be alot of equations and scripts that I am happy to program. From my work I am well versed in Python and C#, but I really don’t have the free time to learn frameworks to set up GUIs and the map game screen I mentioned above. A couple of years ago I tried to do all this in Unity and unless I was doing something wrong it just ended up too hard to get the dragging/dropping working properly (I did have it semi-functional).

I did take a look at Godot from the above posts, is this the thing for me?

Thanks for your help!