Hey everybody, Henri here!

Some days ago I published this game template on the Scirra Store: Mechanics Sandbox! It'd be amazing if you folks could give me a hand on sharing and checking it out (even if not going to buy it!)

I'm really starting and have no social reach on the internet.

Thanks, in advance.

As of now, it just went on sale for a huge discount because I'm excited!

This game template is designed in a quasi-modular system; easy to expand and discard features!

Including basic AI, Dialog, Controls, Platform Animations and Mechanics, Juicy FX, 8 Direction movement with support for animations and holding things like guns, and the best system: Movement Routes.

It's designed in a way that you can use it for Platformers and sidescrollers, as well as RPGs, Dungeon Crawlers (8 dir games), Stealth, etc.

Every one of these systems is expandable, and if I get some sales I'll very likely update it and make other templates/modules!

Here's the link to the Scirra store page if you want to check it out for yourself (please) or even consider buying it!! Think about it, game developing is cool and um... yeah.

https://www.scirra.com/store/royalty-free-game-templates/mechanics-sandbox-5388

Have a good night, thank you from the bottom of my heart for staying home <3!

Hello everyone <3

A month has passed since I made a post here on this forum, and here I am again, because a lot of core things have changed. Also, now I have screenshots, so.

So, Toyvox is a general-purpose voxel game engine, with a rather unique aesthetic. It renders voxels with only one color overall, so making models for it is preety much like making 3d pixelart.

At the moment of this post I'm on a very early stage of development, but I constantly post some updates in my Twitter (https://twitter.com/ukhenrik).

How will I use this engine

Ok, so, Toyvox is a C++ library, what means you'll have to know C++ to work with it. However I'll be also making an editor to make things easier (Unlike c3 where you can only use the engine trough the editor).

Toyvox will completely take care of the hard work (rendering, taking input, calculating 3d stuff) so you can focus on make your game. It will come with a bunch of preset snippets as well!

Aaaand it's event based, so most of the coding you will be making is something like:

//simple teleporter
when(isOverlapping(objA, trigger)) {
	objA.position.value = vec3(0.0, 5.0, 2.0);
}

What type of model will I need to make?

Voxel models. You can see that as normal pixel images, with an extra dimension.

Like that:

Or that:

And yeah, unlike polygon models, voxel models are so damn easy to make! You can create an asset in no time, just like pixelart.

Since Toyvox uses a custom voxel format, in the editor you will have tools to create models and animate them with either frame-by-frame or skeleton animation!

How much will it cost?

About 0 dollars. It's open source, as well. You just can't modify it.

How can I follow its development.

On my twitter, ukhenrik, or on reddit, u/auralinkk.

Amazing! I want to see this happening totally! Also, how can I support you?

Oh! I'm glad you asked. You see, I'm on school right now, and sometimes I get busy, also I'll probably need to get a job soon and my free time will end. That's why I set up a Patreon. If I have some incomes, I will be able to help mom with the home and invest on the development of this program.

I'm loving this experience, and I'd really like to continue. Oh, wait, let me give you a link.

https://www.patreon.com/mrhenri

So if you're into voxels and engines and can see yourself using this engine in the future, make sure to either take a look or share <3

tl;dr I'm creating an awesome voxel general-purpose game engine that's free (but i'd love some support on the Patreon) and (kind of) easy to use.

Working on a birthday presente for a friend. I have one week to make a full, interesting and fun game.

https://i.gyazo.com/b10c6e879c369f6ae6add600729e9a8b.gif

Second, I don't want to critically reduce memory usage.

And First (wait, did I mess it up?), I do use Loader Layout to have my custom Loading Screen to mantain the players entertained while the game is loading.

I think that you are suggesting to make the first layout a loader layout, right? That'd be cool, and I tested.

My first layout is the Menu, and if I click 'New Game' too quick it won't even have a layout to go into. Now it does cut the loading time drastically but that's not what I asked for...

I don't actually want to reduce loading time, I want to know if it is possible to:

1. have loading sections between areas inside the game instead of one big loading at the beggining; That would load the layouts, like, the levels of a certain area. (I use pretty much the same images troughout the whole game. There are some new ones that appear at later points in the story but that's not actually a problem or anything.)

or

2. have no loading sections at all. For example, Undertale and Deltarune don't have a loading screen. Of course, they were created with GameMaker Studio; but I wanted to know if I can do something like that in c2. Like, I won't export my game to the INTERNET, I will export it to Desktop as '.exe', and to mobile as '.apk'. so the files all the files will actually be already at the player's computer, and won't need to be downloaded from a server.

If it is not possible, i wanted to know WHY NOT? Like, how do Construct2 load the images and sounds, and layouts?

And It's ok if I'd actually need third-party methods to accomplish that.

Making a GLOBAL Variable is the right approach. The problem with your method is:

When Collecting

1 -> Player: Set Double_Jump to True

2 -> Player: Set Platform double-jump Enabled

When Respawning.

3 -> Player: Destroy

4 -> System: Create object Player on layer "Entities" at (CheckPoint.X, CheckPoint.Y)

You could solve this in 2 ways:

, instead, spawn the blood at the death location, then, teleporting it to the last checkpoint.

Alternatively, you can to like I do in my game, The Skylings:

[Global number canDoubleJump = 0] (Global Variable)

On Collecting:

Replace

"Player: Set Double_Jump to True" and "Set Platform double-jump Enabled"

with

System set canDoubleJump to 1

On Respawning: just keep it the same

Then add another block like this:

+ System | canDoubleJump = 1

-> Player : Set Platform double-jump Enabled

+ System | Else

-> Player: Set Platorm double-jump Disabled

This way, the double-jump status is not stored at the player, it's just affecting it.

HOPE IT HELPED :D