Individual tutorials are fun, but developing a game from start to finish is also fun. Here's a series that's exactly that!
The video playlist can be found here:
If you're following the series, I'm creating a release each week so that the state of the project at the end of a video can be marked. Each release has two numbers - a major and a minor version number - with each week being the minor version number. This means that the Week 1 project will be 0.1, Week 5 will be 0.5, Week 12 will be 0.12, etc.
The game recieves a "1.0" release upon completion.
The finished product can be found on itch.io here.
This project was built using GameMaker Studio 2.3.7. Later stable releases of 2.x should work.
I'm aiming to write this mostly from scratch, but to save time a few native GML extensions are used, plus a bunch of other assets.
- Luminous Chickens - a lighting shader collection that I assembled based on past tutorials (with some fancy bells and whistles)
- Icon is "No bugs" by Juicy Fish from the Noun Project
- Many assets from kenney.nl
- Some audio from Sonniss
- Music by RyanAvx
- spart by TheSnidr
- Special thanks to Michael's sister