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Title: External Deathcounter for streamers
Post by: Zurai on November 18, 2014, 08:04:38 PM
Hey guys,

Klazen, Lemon, Seph and I worked on an external deathcounter for fangames which you can use to implement in your stream layout.

https://www.mediafire.com/download/p708bk32depq0wv/DeathCounter.rar

Everything is explained in the readme.

Have fun!  :atkHappy:

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Title: Re: External Deathcounter for streamers
Post by: Zurai on November 18, 2014, 09:04:05 PM
Quick update! Crucial bug in the old version
Title: Re: External Deathcounter for streamers
Post by: ShadowsDieAway on November 18, 2014, 09:33:37 PM
Oh wow, that's a giant step up from what I've been doing with screen capping and chroma keying the actual death/timer in game. Looks really clean and sleek, nice job guys! I'll try this out on tomorrow's stream.
Title: Re: External Deathcounter for streamers
Post by: Zurai on November 18, 2014, 09:36:10 PM
Thx :FrankerZ: you're welcome
Title: Re: External Deathcounter for streamers
Post by: OhNoezEinPandy on November 19, 2014, 02:26:44 AM
Sweet!
Title: Re: External Deathcounter for streamers
Post by: petsson12 on November 19, 2014, 02:43:09 AM
Looking great  :cirShades:
Title: Re: External Deathcounter for streamers
Post by: Valioa on November 21, 2014, 07:59:37 PM
Thanks so much! ^.^ ill definitely be using this for me streamsies :D
Title: Re: External Deathcounter for streamers
Post by: Denferok on November 21, 2014, 11:51:47 PM
Awesome, I will definitely use this
Title: Re: External Deathcounter for streamers
Post by: Denferok on November 22, 2014, 10:33:38 PM
Would it be possible to remove the timer somehow? I wouldn't want that during speedruns
Title: Re: External Deathcounter for streamers
Post by: ShadowsDieAway on November 23, 2014, 12:21:04 AM
Is there a way to have splits on the death counter? I feel like pressing your normal split button and getting deaths along with times would be helpful.
Title: Re: External Deathcounter for streamers
Post by: Zurai on November 25, 2014, 02:20:17 AM
Quote from: Denferok on November 22, 2014, 10:33:38 PM
Would it be possible to remove the timer somehow? I wouldn't want that during speedruns

Yes, I put in the GMK for you guys to be able to customize the Tool. If you want to remove the Timer, just adjust the draw event in the "init" object. Also
make sure the Kid and the "pink object" are on the same height, because every time you die, the kid fires a bullet which is responsible for changing the old death variable
to the new one.
If you don't have any clue, I can maybe find the time to upload you a version.

Quote from: ShadowsDieAway on November 23, 2014, 12:21:04 AM
Is there a way to have splits on the death counter? I feel like pressing your normal split button and getting deaths along with times would be helpful.

Sorry, but I have no clue what you mean. If you mean by pressing the "split button" you want to reset the Timer and deathcount, no, that's not possible, because the tool
reads these variables directly from the save and as soon you save, the variables would be set to the "save-file-variables" again.
What you could do is changing the variable names in the draw event to your own once, and as soon the "real-death-variable" changes you increase your own one by 1. The same thing goes for
for your timer variable.
And by pressing the split button you could also reset your own Timer variable along with your own death variable.
Title: Re: External Deathcounter for streamers
Post by: Joni on November 25, 2014, 05:25:15 AM
I think what Mike wants is, to have the option to 'split' the deaths, i.e. on button press save the current death count, the same way livesplit saves the current time when the split button is hit. That way it would be possible during speedruns to see what was the deathcount at the split.

I find your idea of creating a counter in gamemaker to read the saves hilarious btw. I dont think I would have come up with this solution, hahaha.
Title: Re: External Deathcounter for streamers
Post by: Denferok on November 25, 2014, 05:40:51 AM
Thanks for the help
Title: Re: External Deathcounter for streamers
Post by: ShadowsDieAway on November 25, 2014, 07:58:05 AM
Quote from: Joni on November 25, 2014, 05:25:15 AM
I think what Mike wants is, to have the option to 'split' the deaths, i.e. on button press save the current death count, the same way livesplit saves the current time when the split button is hit. That way it would be possible during speedruns to see what was the deathcount at the split.

Exactly. I did this manually in my first playthrough of Boshy (380 deaths reaching HK, 750 beating her, 1340 deaths at the end of world 2, etc)
Title: Re: External Deathcounter for streamers
Post by: Mattisticus on January 06, 2015, 02:30:34 PM
This is pretty cool! Thank you  :atkHappy: