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Today we’re going to take a quick look at some of the switches and memories built-in to IGM. You can load up any game file really, then head to “Materials”, and we’ll start with the “Memories” sub-tab. A lot of the things in here are pretty self-explanatory, but some can work in really interesting ways. The purpose of this tutorial is to open your mind to the possibilities presented by some of these presets. Continue reading
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Last time we uncovered some of the more unusual secrets of IG Maker. Today we’re going to cover a couple more of those and one rather obvious secret – Auto Tiling! Load up your Action RPG or grab this GPD and we’ll get started! Head to the “Action RPG” tab and the “Tiles” sub-tab. Continue reading
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So by now you’ve noticed a lot of things in IG Maker that we haven’t went over or that you’ve discovered and played around with on your own. Today we’ll go over a few of the lesser-known aspects of the program that can be a great help or shortcut to doing certain things in your game. Go ahead and grab this GPD or load up your Action RPG thus far and we’ll get started!
So head to the “Action RPG” tab, and the “Canvases” sub-tab. Check out the mini-image of your canvas and you’ll see that it’s really plain. All you have is grass on there. For now go ahead and use the tiles we’ve got set up to create a small brick building, or a fence. Add a little style to your canvas and keep checking out that mini-image up there.
When you’re done and you have a nifty mini-image, I want you to hit the button right above that image labeled “Adding A Reduced Image As A Material”. Continue reading
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The mechanic for making “Ghosts” in IG Maker is kind of obscure and hard to find, but once found it can be a blast to play with. If you haven’t been following in our Shooting game or you just want to start on the same page as everyone else you can grab the GPD. If you’re already set, you just need the resource below.
So what is a ghost? Basically it’s a simplified gadget that is going to follow our Player Gadget’s every move. Including firing the Player’s projectiles. This could be useful in Platformers (Anyone else remember this mechanic from Ninja Gaiden?), or in Action RPGs, but today we’re going to put it to use in a Shooter. Continue reading
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We’ve worked with the “Flow” tab previously, but now we’re going to look at it with a bit more depth. Load up your shooting game, or grab this GPD real quick and let’s get started!
Basically what we’re going to do is create two memories, then tell the game that when those memories go up by one it should switch stages. Pretty simple stuff, but it’s just a small taste of what the “Flow” system is capable of doing. So first stop on our adventure is to the “Materials” tab and the “Memories” sub-tab. Create two memories named “Stage 1″ and “Stage 2″. Leave both of their initial values at zero. Continue reading
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This is gonna be a short one, but very cool. Load up the shooting game we’ve been working on, or just download the GPD and open it up.
This time we’re gonna make tiles change when our ship crashes into them. It’s a very simple process, but it’s aesthetically awesome. Head to your “Materials” tab first and “Update” your Land tiles, or “Create” a new one using the following resource:
If you choose to “Update” the old Land graphic don’t forget to add 2 to the “Split Graphic (Horizontal)” field making Horizontal 8, and Vertical 1. It still only needs to be used for Tiles so don’t bother changing that. Continue reading
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Today we’re going to make incredibly basic save and load gadgets. These can be expanded upon with menus and graphics among other things, but this tutorial is only going to cover the basic mechanics of how to save to a file and load from it.
We’ll be making these using the Action RPG plugin. You can download the GPD with everything you need to start this tutorial already set up, or you can start from scratch with these resources. Continue reading
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Thus far in our shooting game we’ve made enemies, we have hit points, and we can die endlessly. Let’s go over how to put a cap on dying, show the number of lives left on the screen, and rock a game over screen.
So the first thing we need to do is figure out how many lives we want. I say two (just to keep it a different number from our max health). Open up our shooting game and head to the “Materials” tab and the “Memories” sub-tab. Here you’ll find a bunch of preset memories in red. One of them is “Player Lives Left”. There is also one for “Player Max Lives” but you don’t need to worry about it for now. On “Player Lives Left” just increase the number to two and you’re done here.
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We’ve already went over how to show enemy and player health with numbers.
Let’s take that knowledge and use it to apply a health bar instead. We’ll be
using the shooting game we were working on. Here is the GPD if you need it.
Health bar resource!
So import your health bar under the “Materials” tab, and then head to the
“Memories” sub-tab. You already have your “Player Health” memory set at 3, but
in order for a health bar to work properly you need to set your Max Health as
well. So go ahead and change that memory to 3 for now. Then head to the
“Menus” tab and the “Menu Parts” sub-tab. Continue reading
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So far we’ve made a very basic platformer, and a very basic shooter. What we’re going to do now is go over how to create Menus. Menus can be very complex. They can be altered with switches and memories as well as alter everything about your game if you want. You can use them to create an RPG styled menu, a new game/load/continue screen, or they can be an integral part in your game play. You could even make a text-based RPG just using a series of menus.
We’re going to need options for our menu so load up our shooting game and take a little bit of time to create another canvas similar to our first. Once you have that done create a third canvas and name it Menu if you like, then head to the “Materials” tab and the “Text” sub-tab. Continue reading
