Tag Archives: Shooter

IGM Tutorial: Ghosts

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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 →

IGM Tutorial: Flow

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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 →

IGM Tutorial: Lives Left

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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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IGM Tutorial: Health Bar

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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 →

IGM Tutorial: Projectiles

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Finally we shall cover projectiles! Let’s make our ship from the last tutorial shoot at some stuff. Resources!

So first you need something for it to shoot. Grab the dark ship and the dark bullets and we’ll make ourselves an enemy that shoots back. The first part of this is easy stuff. Just import the new graphics via the “Materials” tab then head to the “Animations” sub-tab to copy and paste the Player Ship we made last time. After that just replace its graphics with the new Enemy Ship and rename it if you like. Because this is an enemy and not our player gadget we’ll need to change the way its hit detection works a little bit. Use these to make the ship hurt our ship when they collide, and to take damage from our player gadget’s bullets. Continue reading →

IGM Tutorial: Camera with a Course

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Using what we’ve learned so far I’ve started up a very simple, easy to re-create Shooting Game. We’ll use this shooting game to create a Camera gadget on a Canvas and give the camera a course to follow. You can either start from this GPD or you can try to recreate this on your own using the following four resources (be sure to grab the small invisible one, it’s the very first one below).

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