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Creativity => Game Design & Demos => Topic started by: dicko on April 20, 2010, 01:34:29 pm

Title: Grandma: platform game engine (game maker)
Post by: dicko on April 20, 2010, 01:34:29 pm: the grandma engine is a game maker engine for use with making platform games in game maker. it was made by the excellent matt thorson (an untitled story, fLaiL). although i do not encourage the use of engines normally, this is a great way for users to get started with making games in game maker, and the source code is fully commented, to allow you to start to form an understanding of how to make custom movement and whatnot in game maker.

this is from the original post matt made (almost a year ago!) on the TiGsource forums.

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Download: http://mattmakesgames.com/matt/GrandmaEngine.zip
Info: http://mattmakesgames.com/blog/2009/04/elderly-platforming.html

Hopefully this will help some people out. It's only v0.910 right now, bit definitely usable and a good foundation. I'll slowly add stuff to it as I have time.

It's based on the Jumper Three engine, but with all J3-specifics striped out and the remainder heavily commented. I also included an An Untitled Story-style room system because I've gotten a lot of requests to explain how I did that.

It's free to use for freeware/commercial, I just ask for a mention and link in your readme/credits.

so i am bringing this to your attention in an attempt to encourage some more game maker devs here!
Title: Grandma: platform game engine (game maker)
Post by: MysteriousWanderer on April 21, 2010, 04:32:24 am: hey i know this doesn't relate to this topic but just thought I should mention that the same guy(matt thorson) released a 2D level editor that exports levels into xml files or picture files recently!

it's pretty neat and I've been looking for something like this for a while now
Title: Grandma: platform game engine (game maker)
Post by: Mince Wobley on April 21, 2010, 04:43:06 am: XML sucks
Title: Grandma: platform game engine (game maker)
Post by: Ciox on April 21, 2010, 10:05:58 am: I'm sure that will help some people but
Quote from: Mince Wobley on April 21, 2010, 04:43:06 am
XML sucks
Title: Grandma: platform game engine (game maker)
Post by: dicko on April 21, 2010, 11:52:30 am: Quote from: MysteriousWanderer on April 21, 2010, 04:32:24 am
hey i know this doesn't relate to this topic but just thought I should mention that the same guy(matt thorson) released a 2D level editor that exports levels into xml files or picture files recently!

it's pretty neat and I've been looking for something like this for a while now

jesus christ MYST HI
Title: Grandma: platform game engine (game maker)
Post by: Craze /!\ on April 26, 2010, 03:59:02 pm: This is pretty cool. I'll definitely give it a whirl.
Title: Grandma: platform game engine (game maker)
Post by: JMickle on April 26, 2010, 04:14:14 pm: yeah grandma engine is good, but i usually make my own. (coz i is a freakin pro)

hey dicko what are you called on tigsource?
Title: Grandma: platform game engine (game maker)
Post by: tuxedo marx on April 26, 2010, 06:08:42 pm: Quote from: Mince Wobley on April 21, 2010, 04:43:06 am
XML sucks boiled sweets