This is a dev log about creating a game called Newtius in GameMaker Studio 2 (Indie edition). Starting with entry one might make this easier to follow. In entry 9, I really just went through cameras and viewports conceptually without doing a whole lot of coding. As always, the Official newtius project page on itch.io … Continue reading Dev Log Entry 10: Viewport is verb now – part 2 →

This is a dev log about creating a game called Newtius in GameMaker Studio 2 (Indie edition). Starting with entry one might make this easier to follow. In entry 8 I attempted to apply what I thought I learned about alarms to newitus by creating five and only five enemies that moved horizontally across the … Continue reading Dev Log Entry 9: Viewport is verb now (and so can you) →

This is a dev log about creating a game called Newtius in GameMaker Studio 2 (Indie edition). Starting with entry one might make this easier to follow. I mentioned in entry 6 I would cover how to host the GMS2 generated HTML5 versions of games in my next post but this has been postponed. As … Continue reading Dev Log Entry 7: Am I reverse engineer now? →

This is a dev log about creating a game called Newtius in GameMaker Studio 2 (Indie edition). Starting with entry one might make this easier to follow. After the amazing success of dev log entry 4, I ended up going on a little diversion today. The first diversion was starting a new GMS2 tutorial for … Continue reading Dev Log Entry 5: Diversions →

This is a dev log about creating a game in GameMaker Studio 2 (Indie edition). Starting with entry one might make this easier to follow. Continuing from dev log entry 3, I thought I'd offer a small update. Then it expanded into the solution to the bug. So here it is then. I started to … Continue reading Dev Log Entry 4: Solving the edge bug in newtius →

This about both learning GameMaker Studio 2 and some basic of game making. As I mentioned in dev log entry 2, I decided I learn a lot better by doing then I do by hypotheticals from reading things or transcribing someone else's code. So I decided at some point to just start making a new … Continue reading Dev Log Entry 3: Learn by doing and a primordial “Newtius” →

I decided to try something a little different from my normal posts: use a post in place of a google doc. This post is an attempt at something of a hybrid between a "normal" post and a freeform stream of consciousness google doc made solely for my own consumption. I'll see soon enough if it's … Continue reading Dev Log Entry 2: at least 2 in 2022 →