Randomly stumbled across this via a RT through a friend. Great work so far! Encouraging to see how much you've done in just a few months. I've picked up GML twice and dropped it when it starts to get really time-intensive to learn anything more than the basics, but I'm sticking with it this time. I also feel like I've played enough games at this point in my life to know what is fun and what isn't, so I should try to see if I can put my thoughts into practice.
Can I ask which tutorial series' you're using? I'm always looking for more thorough explanations on everything as I learn. I'm currently using the Little Town tutorial directly from GameMaker, it's been pretty nice so far.
I started with Little Town too, using some assets I made! I pretty quickly wound up jumping over to Peyton Burnham's RPG system, which I found super helpful foundationally, and have used elements of a bunch of his tutorials in conjunction with Shaun Spalding's and FriendlyCosmonaut's. I've also honestly found ChatGPT to be really useful when it comes to answering questions — sort of like a super-charged Google search through seven-year-old Reddit threads. It can't write particularly good GML code since it's only trained through 2021, but it's helped me figure out what logic to employ and where I could be going wrong in my own code, and has been fairly helpful in terms of providing explanations beyond the manual (which I highly recommend reading and referencing thoroughly — it's truly so helpful and for the most part written in plain language!)
Thank you! I've got Shaun Spalding's Lulu's Adventure tutorial queued up as my next one to complete! I haven't checked out the others yet so I will definitely do so.
And yeah, going to ChatGPT with questions was like the first thing I did when I tried talking to it. It kinda feels like cheating? But also not really, since it can make mistakes. Strange to think that AI is probably progressing at the rate that by the time I've learned enough GML to truly code the game I want to make, I'll probably just be able to tell ChatGPT to make it for me...
Looking forward to more updates on your project! Thanks again
Randomly stumbled across this via a RT through a friend. Great work so far! Encouraging to see how much you've done in just a few months. I've picked up GML twice and dropped it when it starts to get really time-intensive to learn anything more than the basics, but I'm sticking with it this time. I also feel like I've played enough games at this point in my life to know what is fun and what isn't, so I should try to see if I can put my thoughts into practice.
Can I ask which tutorial series' you're using? I'm always looking for more thorough explanations on everything as I learn. I'm currently using the Little Town tutorial directly from GameMaker, it's been pretty nice so far.
I started with Little Town too, using some assets I made! I pretty quickly wound up jumping over to Peyton Burnham's RPG system, which I found super helpful foundationally, and have used elements of a bunch of his tutorials in conjunction with Shaun Spalding's and FriendlyCosmonaut's. I've also honestly found ChatGPT to be really useful when it comes to answering questions — sort of like a super-charged Google search through seven-year-old Reddit threads. It can't write particularly good GML code since it's only trained through 2021, but it's helped me figure out what logic to employ and where I could be going wrong in my own code, and has been fairly helpful in terms of providing explanations beyond the manual (which I highly recommend reading and referencing thoroughly — it's truly so helpful and for the most part written in plain language!)
Thank you! I've got Shaun Spalding's Lulu's Adventure tutorial queued up as my next one to complete! I haven't checked out the others yet so I will definitely do so.
And yeah, going to ChatGPT with questions was like the first thing I did when I tried talking to it. It kinda feels like cheating? But also not really, since it can make mistakes. Strange to think that AI is probably progressing at the rate that by the time I've learned enough GML to truly code the game I want to make, I'll probably just be able to tell ChatGPT to make it for me...
Looking forward to more updates on your project! Thanks again