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Humble Game Maker Bundle

KarujiKaruji
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Ever wondered how Super Crate Box was made? Well now witness the terror that is JW's source code!

Introducing The Humble Game Maker Bundle

Featuring source code to:
Another Perspective
Death Ray Manta
Spoiler Alert
Super Crate Box
Stealth Bastard Deluxe
Savant-Ascent
Detective Case and Clown Bot
10 Second Ninja
Wasteland Kings also known as the initial prototype for Nuclear Throne.

Ok I'm mostly just excited about going through other people's source code in GM.

But there is a GM:Pro and Android license in the mix which IIRC would retail for around $200 so definitely worth the pick up for that.
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  • NickCuthbertNickCuthbert
    On a scale of 1 to terrifying, how frightful is JW's code?
  • KarujiKaruji
    @NickCuthbert 11: There is absolutely no indentation. Anywhere o_____o

    Also Super Crate Box runs at 50 FPS, and I can't think of a reason why...
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  • NickCuthbertNickCuthbert
    And predictably, YoYo game's account signups are down :P
  • KarujiKaruji
    edited
    Who didn't see that happening!

    Though some of my favorite JW code lines so far.

    with instance_create(x,y,Shell)
motion_add(point_direction(x,y,mouse_x,mouse_y)+other.right*100+random(70)-35,2+random(2))

    Shell drops on fire for Wasteland Kings

    I never actually thought about using with with instance create instead of assigning to a local var and working with that. Semantically the same, but this seems more elegant!

    This actually reminds me of when I was hanging out with Tom Francis at Rezzed and saw him working on some Heat Signiture stuff. He uses some neat shorthand scripts in GM. So he uses his custom script Exists which just calls the GM instance_exists which is a really nice little trick to reduce typing and help keep things a bit neat.

    if shake > 10
shake = 10

view_xview = 10+random(shake)-shake/2
if instance_exists(SCROLLVERT) and instance_exists(Player)
view_yview = Player.y-view_hview/2+random(shake)-shake/2
else
view_yview = 10+random(shake)-shake/2

if shake > 0
shake -= 0.5
else
shake = 0

if shake > 5
shake -= 1


    And yes what would talking about JW code be without the screen shake.
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  • KarujiKaruji
    As an aside it seems that the GM servers are getting completely hammered, and they decided that it would be a good time to set their latest update live >_<
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  • pieterpieter
    @Karuji Having the same problem updating GM. I've been trying since yesterday evening with no success.

    @NickCuthbert JW's code hurts my soul :c Don't think he'll be doing a YYC for Nuclear Throne.
  • KarujiKaruji
    @pieter turned to the Steam stuff which has a beta channel for the current live build. (It seems like the splash screen is back fro some reason.)

    With regards to the NT stuff: this is the code from the initial Mojam 2 Prototype. So this is a long way off anything like what the current game code is. The errors you have when loading the game is because it was written in GM8.1 and post converted to GM:S by YoYo for the bundle.
  • NickCuthbertNickCuthbert
    Managed to finally redeem the product key. Acquiring a license though...






    ...Still waiting
  • BoysanoBoysano
    Yeah also got the bundle, and only yesterday could update GM (so glad they fixed the audio export issues)

    Well, more interesting is discussing all the source codes right, and funny how we all wanted to see JW's or NT code base first, me included.

    My biggest first impression from seeing successful games sources codes is simply that I tend to over complicate my code / engines. I can get away with a lot less.

    Seems like we could really benefit from helping each other with GM code techniques, etc. I'm sure with time it improves,
    I just hope I'm not teaching myself and bad habits which will cost me development time.

    Enough rant about me, do any of you feel the same?

    I really liked how he makes bullets bounce from walls, and selects weapon types, etc.
    Looks like he just uses instance(s) or objects and does no optimisations...really.

    My favorite part: How simple he made the level generation with instances! WHaat!

    Regardless, a super exciting bundle!
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  • KarujiKaruji
    @Boyosano one of the interesting thing about JW's style (which I'm totally ripping off from Super Game Jam) is that he sketches with code.

    Being a programmer the inclination is to well write programming, doubly so if you went to uni and got that shit hard drilled into your brain.

    JW doesn't really programming, he makes things using programming.

    ---

    Personally I have many over engineered pieces of code. I'm actually pretty OK with this since most of it was designed to be kinda over-engineered and modular so I can just shove it into any GM project. And I built a tool that can merge two GM projects cause that's just something the engine doesn't do.

    The reason why I'm OK with over engineering code, is well that's kinda my job. I'm not the one sketching out things using code. I take sketch code and turn it into something that shipable, has as little bugs as possible, and has things so two months when I need to add something I already but it into the base system.

    And again the Wasteland Kings codebase is REALLY different to Nuclear Throne. And if you feel like you over engineer things then please look at Stealth Bastard ;)
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