python-b5 @pythonb5

- Hobbyist game developer. - Lead programmer for @UndertaleWldfre. - Working on Raspberry Resort, an RPG / puzzle game about helping unusual people in a hotel. python-b5.com Tangerine Tropics Joined December 2017

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python-b5 @pythonb5

a month ago

@barofsoap418 @literalreptile GameMaker's whole GUI layer system is one of the weaker parts of the engine, I think... it really doesn't make all that much sense, and I find myself having to work around it most of the time. It's worth it to me to avoid having to account for the camera when drawing GUI, though.

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a month ago

@barofsoap418 @literalreptile You can still use the GUI layer, but it's a bit annoying; I do it by switching to a new surface in Draw GUI Begin, then drawing that surface to the screen in Draw GUI End. That prevents GUI being drawn over the borders, though it can cause blending issues, unfortunately.

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a month ago

🎮 Get the game here: berry-games.itch.io/throwdown 📷 Rate the game here: itch.io/jam/gmtk-jam-2… 🎵 Get the soundtrack here: samgorman272.bandcamp.com/album/throwdow…

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a month ago

@SamGorman272 and my entry for #GMTK2026 is out now! Throwdown at 3:00 is a hack-and-slash roguelike where the weather changes the combat. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #GMTKJam

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2 months ago

@BowlOfTailsSoup cool, thanks! I assume that's similar to my modified version, then (probably done a little better though, I barely understand how to use fontforge...).

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2 months ago

@BowlOfTailsSoup dt mono has proliferated throughout the fandom so much, which is unfortunate because it's not the most accurate...

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2 months ago

@BowlOfTailsSoup curious, what font are you using now? for wildfire I just use 8-bit operator jve and space out the characters manually when drawing, but I also have an accurate monospace copy of it I hacked together in fontforge I used on our website.

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2 months ago

@barofsoap418 it's just a really baffling design decision overall... I don't understand why they set it up this way. surely this would've been caught in playtesting, right...?

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2 months ago

@barofsoap418 even worse, if you disable voice clips in that room, you can't re-enable them until you leave - so if you try to re-enable them there and can't, you might mistakenly assume they're off for good now, and neglect to try again before getting the feather and locking yourself out.

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2 months ago

@catseatbats_ @mayoipest it also froze when first taking out the phone, so probably it has to do with loading assets or shader compilation or something to that effect, I imagine

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2 months ago

@catseatbats_ @mayoipest it froze during the first ~6 or so level transitions for me (on my laptop with a 4070), but mostly cleared up later in the game. I suspect the freezing has little to do with how powerful the pc running the game is, given that (I do hope it's fixed eventually, though!).

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2 months ago

@Canama139 @Negatron2300 @ferarironing @CloudyPapon2 kris' walk cycle, for instance, plays at around 4-5 fps, which is pretty common for those types of animations, and I wouldn't say it looks particularly off. it's not smooth, but that doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't fit.

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2 months ago

@Canama139 @Negatron2300 @ferarironing @CloudyPapon2 that's true for 3d games, but pixel art games almost always use animations drawn at a lower framerate than the game itself, and it generally looks fine. sprite animations are often 10-15 fps or lower, even for games running at 60 fps. animating would just take too long otherwise.

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2 months ago

@Canama139 @Negatron2300 @ferarironing @CloudyPapon2 if the game started development nowadays though it would probably be 60, I imagine (if only because that's the default now). animations will actually look less jittery the higher your framerate is, since it matters less whether the animation's framerate divides into the game's.

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2 months ago

@Canama139 @Negatron2300 @ferarironing @CloudyPapon2 it used to be, though I'm pretty sure it's been 60 since gms2 released. undertale uses gamemaker 8.1 / gms1's default resolution and framerate. chapter 1 would have been made in gms1 like undertale, so it just inherited that and I guess toby just never saw fit to change it.

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2 months ago

@Darkessss_ @ValcomDrifty mods that add borders to the pc versions of the games probably just don't bother with adding code to adapt for different resolutions / aspect ratios, probably because they happen to only test on 16:9 displays.

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2 months ago

@Darkessss_ @ValcomDrifty fwiw, you can get other resolutions working for the most part by zooming the borders in. it means the edges might get cut off, but it's good enough in most cases. utdr's borders aren't programmed this way because they target a fixed 720p/1080p, but that could be changed for pc.

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2 months ago

@Toasty_Mann @beefboss1234 @purple_miau it seems to just create an extra file (to mark side b, if that's what it's called, as completed, since it doesn't show up in the menu), not change any of your existing files. we'll see come ch6/ch7 though, I guess...