#slaveoftime

After having picked up Game Maker for next to nothing from HumbleBundle I’ve decided I’m abandoning Stencyl (which I probably should have done long ago, I admit it was a crutch). Now begins me learning to use it and porting over my in progress projects. I’ll be nice to be back learning a language rather than just using jigsaw pieces to cobble things together.

Changed the chat font to the official Today Land one (Name font is still wrong), and fixed the spacing issue between letters. I Must remember to double space between words.

Seems my Cutscene system works! Please forgive the terrible writing, I just needed something to test it all out. (also the framerate I’m trying a new method of recording)

I was trying to make something that could be used for cutscenes, here are two sprites moving randomly (Since I didn’t want to spend time giving them individual unique orders)

Line1 ;Current Action, direction, Time performing

Line2; Current Action, direction, Total Time

Line3; Next Action, direction, Total Time

Current Possible Actions are; Idle, Walk, Jump, Turn. Camera (follow) Amazingly it’s mostly just the pre-existing movement code with the keypresses swapped out for Actor values provided by a randomly generated List of Actions.

A mock up of a mock up! I was procrastinating trying not to design levels for my platformer and threw this together, if it goes down well I might make the other scenes too. (the text boxes and movement will obviously carry over since that works been done, clicking interface will need a slight addition. Healthbar works, inventory window/portrait/text window can all be swapped out for other characters) It’s a shame Stencyl seems to have issues with some font when displayed really small, or I could have used the ones from the source images.

Source: http://grafxkid.tumblr.com/post/146577007574/here-are-rough-mock-screens-if-today-land-was-a

Edit: Damn big gif wont play...look here for animation.