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by jbskaggs
Sat Dec 26, 2020 12:39 am
Forum: General
Topic: What do you use to design your game concepts?
Replies: 4
Views: 8768

Re: What do you use to design your game concepts?

Great and insightful response!
by jbskaggs
Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:47 am
Forum: General
Topic: What do you use to design your game concepts?
Replies: 4
Views: 8768

Re: What do you use to design your game concepts?

Thats sorta what I do- I use google drive and create a document and fill it with my notes-
by jbskaggs
Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:04 am
Forum: General
Topic: What do you use to design your game concepts?
Replies: 4
Views: 8768

What do you use to design your game concepts?

Way before you even start to code - what is your method or or what do you use to flesh out the concept? A word processor? Storyboarding? A pad of paper and a pencil? An art program? Maybe a tile map editor or level editor? What would be your typical steps in your method to flesh out your concepts to...
by jbskaggs
Wed Dec 16, 2020 3:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: I think it would be neat to have a Love2d equivalent to gamemaker gml wiki
Replies: 6
Views: 9754

Re: I think it would be neat to have a Love2d equivalent to gamemaker gml wiki

Yes but an example could be shown. Then stress you can do it anyway you want when learn how. Thanks!
by jbskaggs
Wed Dec 16, 2020 7:30 am
Forum: General
Topic: I think it would be neat to have a Love2d equivalent to gamemaker gml wiki
Replies: 6
Views: 9754

Re: I think it would be neat to have a Love2d equivalent to gamemaker gml wiki

I think so. I see rosetta already had some gml and lua.

Here is the dictionary I was talking about for Godot and GML.

https://github.com/coppolaemilio/gamema ... dictionary
by jbskaggs
Wed Dec 16, 2020 6:41 am
Forum: General
Topic: I think it would be neat to have a Love2d equivalent to gamemaker gml wiki
Replies: 6
Views: 9754

I think it would be neat to have a Love2d equivalent to gamemaker gml wiki

When I was using Godot and got stuck but knew how to do something in Gamemaker there was a dictionary online to see how to do the same thing in each engine. I think this would be really nice for people like me coming over from GML or Gamemaker language. I think for me the hardest so far was the conc...
by jbskaggs
Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:34 pm
Forum: General
Topic: why am I getting this error?
Replies: 4
Views: 6600

Re: why am I getting this error?

Thanks that is helpful. Like I said I was getting lost in the wiki and videos. But these replies are very illuminating for me as in GML x and y were reserved and it was biasing my thinking.
by jbskaggs
Tue Dec 15, 2020 6:13 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: How do you get the x and y positions of an image?
Replies: 12
Views: 9797

Re: How do you get the x and y positions of an image?

Robin that really helped me understand a similar problem I was having. So nil doesnt equal zero- that is helpful to me.