Hello Everyone

jsherman said:

Welcome!

Don't burden yourself too much with the 4.0.6 to 4.0.11 compatibility. The new 4.1 should be out before long and may be the best place for a fresh start. But you can still watch the videos and play along to learn the software.

Best of luck with your game. It sounds like a great gift for your partner.

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elisavage said:

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make computer/video games. I remember doing some really simple visual basic programs to make a set of dice for D&D, which was such a hassle when it actually came to playing- firing up the computer, loading the program and selecting dice, when I could just roll in the real world. Ha! It continued on with making some 8 bit games for a college class a few years ago with one of the older iterations of gamemaker. The latest push to making 8-16 bit games again is a means to an end. I am building a raspberry pi/arduino arcade cabinet and I will be loading all of the emulators and games onto it for my partner's birthday, and I want to make the first game loaded about her and her dog, an adventure/platform game. I know, cue barf emoji! After I finish that specific game, I want to continue to create games that I can also eventually flash to carts, and perhaps add cartridge functionality to the cabinet. I'm in the process of trying to do the adventure tutorial and I am running into the compatibility problems between 4.0.06 and 4.0.11. I will trawl through the forums before I ask too many questions. Hopefully when time permits we will have a new tutorial video or assets package that are compatible with the new version.

It is great to see our childhood dreams becoming a possibility because of the hard work of Joe, Austin and everyone involved in this.

Cheers,
Eli Savage

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elisavage said:

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make computer/video games. I remember doing some really simple visual basic programs to make a set of dice for D&D, which was such a hassle when it actually came to playing- firing up the computer, loading the program and selecting dice, when I could just roll in the real world. Ha! It continued on with making some 8 bit games for a college class a few years ago with one of the older iterations of gamemaker. The latest push to making 8-16 bit games again is a means to an end. I am building a raspberry pi/arduino arcade cabinet and I will be loading all of the emulators and games onto it for my partner's birthday, and I want to make the first game loaded about her and her dog, an adventure/platform game. I know, cue barf emoji! After I finish that specific game, I want to continue to create games that I can also eventually flash to carts, and perhaps add cartridge functionality to the cabinet. I'm in the process of trying to do the adventure tutorial and I am running into the compatibility problems between 4.0.06 and 4.0.11. I will trawl through the forums before I ask too many questions. Hopefully when time permits we will have a new tutorial video or assets package that are compatible with the new version.

It is great to see our childhood dreams becoming a possibility because of the hard work of Joe, Austin and everyone involved in this.

Cheers,
Eli Savage

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iridium_ionizer said:

Welcome!

What kind of dog? Here is a tutorial for sprite based quadruped animation https://www.patreon.com/posts/quadruped-walk-14012170.

The guy designs these tutorials more for 16-bit systems with there large palettes, # of frames, and character sizes, but there are probably some fundamentals that you can use, at least once you are ready to polish your animations.

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