Ground tutorials?
Saturday, February 14, 2015 - 22:29
Greetings all! I'm designing a side scrolling game and i will admit that this is my first game. I'm using Game Maker studio and while I have the background designed, I'm at a loss on how to do the ground. My idea is that my main character is going up a mountain so I won't have any platforms. My question is this: should I draw the ground in photoshop then tile the different pieces and build the rest in gamemaker? Does anybody know where I can find good tutorials for this? I've looked on Youtube and Google and found none befiting what I want to do. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
-Kit @ Helzapoppen
You can siply use Inkscape to make ground tiles
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Not sure what you need to do here without platforms, my assumption is that the backgrounds would need to move to give the illusion of going up a mountain, for which you can set the background to move in different directions as you move, are you using layers?
when selecting a room in gamemaker, go to the settings tab, here you can select which background you want to move, also there is a direction speed that you can set, 5 for right, or -5 for left for example, and so on, you will most likely need a variable in the object events to determine when your player is going in a direction, you can also get that variable to change the direction of the background, but it is a bit hard to guess without a image/concept idea to see what it is your actually trying to do.:)
Chasersgaming | Support | Monstropolis |
If it's just static background, you only have to make 1 - just make it the size of your room and seamless/scrolling.
If your player and other game objects will be interacting with it, then you'll need a "ground" object. In that case you'll probably want to make it the same size as your room grid - makes for easier placement.
you can also check these resources:
Everything you need to know about Gamemaker:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamemaker/comments/3lyoik/game_maker_handbook_r...
Yoyogames forums: https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php