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Tools & Software / Frames converter for avoidances

« on: January 30, 2017, 04:32:39 AM »

Not many people may be interested but I've seen on recent Stinky's stream that he uses calculator to convert seconds of his avoidance into frames and I always found that to be pretty inconvinient, so here is the tool I am about to present you. I made it a while ago for my own needs but it allows you to simply input minutes and seconds(with milliseconds supported) and press that convert button to get the frames you want, which you can safely copy from the tab! It is also quite small so if you are using only one monitor it shouldn't clutter all the little space you have. Since all fangames run at 50 frames per second it will use exactly that speed to convert stuff. If there are any more features you would like to see or want to give any feedback feel free to leave a post here.

Link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/5h0m726dohqptz6/Frames+converter.rar

Screenshot:

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Announcements / Re: The Wannabes auto hosting discussion

« on: September 28, 2016, 11:07:44 AM »

Hello to anyone who reads this.

Though I'm not the most active streamer if at all but I have a lot of experience with Twitch so I'd still like to present my opinion on this. It'd be quite nice to have auto-host as a thing and as TJ already said there nothing bad about. Myself I do watch a bunch of fangame streams and it'd only benefit me so I don't have to find another stream when auto-host will do it for me

On topic of team requirements I strongly support the "no follower alert rule". Many lurkers will find it disgusting and imo not only they don't benefit but make the stream look worse and sound worse when suddenly there is some random picture and sound mid-gameplay part and I wanna enjoy the stream not getting distracted by some random notification that I don't care about and only provides info for the streamer rather than the viewers themselves.

In terms kicking out inactives maybe that should be done but as again TJ mentioned some members provide quite an original content of their own. All in all should be kicked the completely "dead" people.

In terms of language I encourage English only because double language creates a complete mess in chat and on stream. Yes that maybe nice to get in people from many communities but at the same time half the stuff won't be understood because of language barrier. And I doubt streamers will translate literally everything to one language :p.

As a conclusion I guess auto-host should be a thing and new rules such as "no follower alert" and "English only" should be included in order to join the team.

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User-Made Creations / Re: Metroidvania Megacollab Project - Planning Phase

« on: June 15, 2016, 09:56:30 AM »

I am excited for this and ready to help on anything you want me to. You have my full support on this project

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Game Design / Re: Post your Code Snippets

« on: March 27, 2016, 06:29:57 AM »

People probably already made this thousands of times but decided to write this myself. This is a code that let's you make the object fade in and out, or just fade in, or just fade out - scrAlphaFade

Oh, yeah if you work in Studio you should have currentFade variable defined in the creation code of every object that will use this script.

Edit: I decided to go even further and created a script that will let you mess with fading any variable you want to - scrValFade

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User-Made Creations / Re: I wanna come up with a name

« on: March 16, 2016, 11:58:18 AM »

What does the orb of speed do? just got it and i'm curious

It is one of the orbs that is required to get access to the extra stage :p

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User-Made Creations / Re: I wanna come up with a name

« on: March 11, 2016, 11:47:57 AM »

Game is updated to version 1.1:

* Boss phase 1 changed
* Stage 5 visuals changed
* Bug fixes

Download: httpss://www.dropbox.com/s/vb69lcjg33a4et5/I%20wanna%20come%20up%20with%20a%20name.rar?dl=0

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User-Made Creations / I wanna come up with a name

« on: March 05, 2016, 06:19:06 AM »

Hey there!  I present to you my first completed fangame. Even though the name is quite "original" I tried to put my soul into it, so I hope you will enjoy playing it. Game is relevatively small, consisting of 5 main stages, 1 boss, 5 secrets and 1 extra stage. I spent around a month and a half making this. Also a lot of time was put into testing and eliminating every bug and what not. I aimed this to be an average player fangame but it also might be a good start for beginners.

Screenshots:

(click to show/hide)

I don't know what else to say. Thank you for giving any feedback or bug reports in advance!
You can use Twitter(@SmartkinZ) to contact me.

Anyway here is the download link: https://www.mediafire.com/download/c84c7ndegwst36w/I_wanna_come_up_with_a_name.rar

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Programming Questions / Re: How to load a changed background inside the room?

« on: February 19, 2016, 03:20:58 PM »

I suggest creating some sort of flag for example "global.BCGchanged". Then change it to 1 when you change background index. After that in the save game script add "global.BCGchanged":

file_bin_write_byte(f,global.BCGchanged)

In load game scrypt(Usually presented as saveExe) assign the previously saved value to the global.BCGchanged:

global.BCGchanged = file_bin_read_byte(f);

Remember to have them at the same position if you save it after global.item[X] then load it at the same position. Idk if it is necessary in Studio since I work in 8.1 but test both in any case.

Then in room Creation Code:

If global.BCGchanged
background_index[0] = (your background index);

If you want to have multiple changes can have it into array.
Hope it worked and good luck making fangames 

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Game Design / Re: Searching for people who would like to help in my project

« on: January 07, 2016, 07:30:19 PM »

Hi Smartkin. One piece of advice that's often repeated to beginner hobbyist game developers is to start small. Finishing one or a few small games lets you get comfortable with your skills before attempting a bigger game. If you start off with a big game, or your dream game, you run a big risk of getting in over your head and ultimately not finishing it, which is a bummer. In addition, the skill you gain from making a few small games will make your big / dream game be better quality. So, I stand by that advice, especially since you say you just started. This might mean putting this game on hold and making a smaller fangame first, or maybe cutting down the scope of this game; I don't know.

As for working with other people, I think that's a great idea. However, I think it might be hard to find teammates if you don't have any sort of past work to show off. This is where having a game or two under your belt is handy, besides obviously the experience you gained from making them.

As for advice though, I'd say we have quite a few community members that are willing to give you feedback in any area, including design, programming, balance, etc. You can add me on skype as "patrickgh3", I'd be more than happy to try and answer any questions. Sorry for this kinda wordy post. Best of luck making fangames!

Thanks for the good luck. I know I probably should have made a small and chill game with nothing too complicated but that is not really how my mind works. I have been lurking in the community for a long time and decided that should contribute in some way. Making big project is gonna be hard nonetheless and I am not going back but again thanks I appreciate any criticism whether it is good or bad, I am pretty open-minded and lazy ;P

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Game Design / Searching for people who would like to help in my project

« on: January 07, 2016, 03:00:40 PM »

Hi. I have been working on my fangame for a bit more than 4 months now and my progress isn't that great. I just started and wanna create a really nice game. But my biggest problem is being original I scrapped lots of ideas because they were already used and came up with one I consider really good. Sadly, game will be really huge and will take a lot of time to make and I have no idea whether I finish it. At the same time I don't want to give up on it. Also, I don't wanna spoil anything about the game so far and wanna make it a mystery until it is fully done because what is the purpose of creating hype if you are not gonna give what you have promised? So I need more people to work with and if anybody wishes to help in one way or another(coding, suggesting games to take sprites from, etc.). I am full of ideas but making them an actual thing becomes more of a torture and making all of this alone becomes boring pretty fast. In advance, thanks to everyone who will just reply or give any sort of advice. 

Edit2: (removed Edit1) Alright I am set to do stuff and I can do all of this on my own(maybe) but if you still wish to help with anything mentioned above feel free to ask. Skype: smarton19. Discord: Smartkin#1039

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Meet and Greet! / Hello :^)

« on: August 26, 2015, 07:35:11 AM »

Ok I think after a few centuries of browsing these forums and lurking on streams time to finally say hi. HI :^) I don't really have much to say about myself besides being bad at video games but I hope to fix that issue some other day or month or year. Have been here and other streams for quite a while I enjoyed everything that I saw and read. Hope to get into the community soon!!