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General Update

Hello! Given it's been a little while since my last video came out I thought y'all were due a small update!

I'll come back around to adding a bit more the inventory mini-series I've started but I don't want to over do my focus on it due to the increasingly specialised nature of the content even though I know it will be very valuable to a few. There's a tightrope to walk between creating helpful content for lots of people and creating *very* helpful content for very few people. I definit...

Secret Project is out!

Some of you might recall when I was frustratingly vague about a decision to take on *even more work* at a time I had largely promised to not take on more work.

That project is finally out! I provided some programming help for certain specific areas and elements of DELTARUNE Chapter 2.

It was a massive honor to ...

Inventory Mouse Control

Sorry this one took forever! A whole lot of moving rectangles around in after effects. Enjoy!

Source code has been uploaded here: https://shaunjs.itch.io/shauns-inventory-tutorial

Inventory Mouse Control [Progress]

This one is taking me a little while! There's quick and dirty ways I've written this before but given how clean our base inventory was I wanted to write something good/generic to match it with the mouse control.

I opted for a state machine controlled 'mouse' object that deals with all mouse operations on the inventory. I like this because it very cleanly separates the different states the mouse can be in and gives you room to keep this apart from any other UI interactions without runni...

State Machines in v2.3

Nice to have an up to date video on the topic, and a shorter, cleaner one to boot! 

This video will go public tomorrow, enjoy!

-S

Sub only pricing for GameMaker

First two minutes are strictly info, the following seven are background, opinion, etc.

I could have made this video much longer, there's a lot of common complaints I could have addressed and more background info on the situation and how truly inevitable this kind of thing really was etc but I feel like I covered the most important points.

A lot of people having knee-jerk reactions to this, but I'm still glad I went with an uncompromising title and intro. I think viewers are apprec...

Inventory Tutorial

It's here! Full resolution probably still processing as I type this.

Source code links etc are in the video description and this video will go public some time tomorrow.

As I discussed previously, we'll be running some polling and discussion on here to decide what features to add on top of this foundation. For now though I'm very proud of this video we get a whole lot done in 8 minutes.

-S

ARPG - Final Episode

(source code will be updated soon, hd may still be processing if you arrive here very early, video will go public on Friday. Giving *all* patrons early access to this episode to celebrate.)

The final (final) ((final v2.1)) stretch

The script is done for ARPG ep51! 

Every week the end has felt so close and yet so far, every bit of work revealing yet a little bit more work that needed doing. But here we finally (finally) ((finally)) are.

It'll be a long episode that frankly, earlier I would have split into two but my heart can't take it anymore. Every day this series isn't finished is just painful to me at this point.

I want to thank you all for supporting me while this series wriggled its way out ...

ARPG Episode 49 + 50 Out now

• Episode 49 - Loading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpHEY939cXQ (public now)
• Episode 50 - Pause Menu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASKtlsAhfLw (public next Friday)

Source code available here.

...One m...

ARPG Episode 48 - Saving

Very similar to the saving and loading tutorials I've made independently of this series, here's how to do it in a big ol' project!

Source code live soon here: https://shaunjs.itch.io/shauns-action-rpg-tutorial

-S

ARPG Episode 47 - Item Shop #2

Actually buying items from the shop! Most of this is handled by the dialogue + responses system we set up way back when with a new function for giving you the items themselves and deducting the money.

Live on Friday, source code will be up here shortly as always.

Cheers!

-S

ARPG Episode 46 - Item Shop (part 1)

An annoying amount of just setting stuff up, but it needed doing! The more interesting code for this will be next episode.

Episode will be live in a few hours when the HD resolution finishes processing. Sorry there's no bigger Patron lead on this one! Some weeks are just better than others and we're slightly behind again but at least there's not too much more to go.

Thanks again everyone! Source code is already updated over at 2021-06-04 17:57:43 +0000 UTC View Post

ARPG Episode 45 - Pots and Rocks

It's another clean up + adding Stuff episode! Back to writing actual code next time I promise.

Source code will be updated shortly after this post, if it isn't and its been like an hour, shout at me because I might have forgotten.

Post ARPG Content Plan & PokeyPoke

TL;DR - I'm going to be making a Game (PokeyPoke) & doing new one-off tutorials based on polls.

Hey everyone!

We're coming towards the end of the ARPG series,  I still don't know that it was really a good idea to push on but nonetheless, for better or worse it will be finished! After it is finished what am I going to be doing next?

In terms of tutorials I'm planning to shift back into making one-off tutorials rather than long series. I want...

ARPG Episode 44 - Auto Tiling

Weird topic to cover 44 episodes in but here we are! Mostly a bit of a cleanup episode and episode 45 is going to be similar. There's a few things we've glossed over or put off that are very minor changes and fixes and content that needs creating to get us to where the original Demo was.

In this episode we make the spooky cave that will house our quest objective.

I've said it before, but we're on the final stretch now! All but the last couple of episodes have been scripted out and...

Patreon Credits Test - Feedback requested!

So I talked a little while ago about how I wanted to find a way to streamline producing the credits sequence on my videos. How the number of $20 supporters means that recording all of the names, while hand removing the ones that don't wish to be explicitly mentioned and having to re-do this process with every video has started to get to a point where it's hard to sustain if I want to increase the rate at which I make videos.

I both want to improve the quality of my credits sequence, mak...

Two new ARPG Episodes, Rough ARPG roadmap update

Hello!

Everyone at the $5 tier or above can now watch episodes 41 and 42 of the ARPG series.

• Episode 41 
• Episode 42

I'll be updating the source code s...