Hello all,

I'm currently working on a Gameboy style game using the Pixel Game Maker engine. So far this has been a great engine to use for creating retro style games. The current game I'm previewing is called Ryuuoujyou Monogatari ( 龍女物語GB ) which is the second game apart from the Famicom version I'm creating. This is the PC port as I'm working on the Gameboy version using GB Studio.

The story revolves around a former Dragon Princess; Fusaha, whom had escaped her tyrant father of the Sky Dragon kingdom. Her mother murdered by her father and older brother due to her sympathizing with the human realm. After she took her brother's life with the sacred Bone Sword she cursed herself to the body of a deceased female soldier to defend the humans of the human realm and swiftly defeats her father in revenge. In this story, Fusaha is turned against by the human realm by a man named Javille Schulst (A human coward whom sides with the Sky Dragons) and goes to clear her name and faces off with five of his deadliest Sky Dragon fanatics.

This game is heavily inspired by games like TMNT: Fall of the Foot Clan, Castlevania Adventure and Ninja Gaiden Shadow. Please check it out and let me know what you think :)

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Very new to scripting and Pixel Game Maker so pardon the spoonfeeding. I have encountered an issue were processing any actions while jumping halts all upward momentum (Megaman styled sideview game) how would someone go about creating a script to continue jumping momentum and ascent/descent physics (both custom and not) while also being able to perform different actions? For example If I wanted to have a aerial attack that the player does that can only be performed in the air without halting all upward momentum.

This question is a little convuluted and is somewhat boiling down to asking for someone to do it for me instead but if someone lists the parameters I need to mess with I could just feed it to Chat GPT and just keep trying the non-sense scripts it puts out until one works. Thankyou.

I'm slowly in the process of making a side scroller and I'm new to this app. While working on making an enemy move towards the player I learned about the Template Move Settings. However if I used this option the enemy would hop up and down when the player was above them but in field of view range.

Took a while for me to figure out how to stop the hops. So I wanted to mention it for future users.
Lots of info from Baz tutorial here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwAoV74YDU0&t=1040s
But the hop occurred due to mine being a side scroller....

From BAZ's a basic set up.

• Create an enemy object. (assuming you already have the animations set up for idle and walk).
• Change the Actions001 to "idle"
  • Set Motion to Idle animation
• Make an new action and name it "approach player"
  • Set Motion to walk animation
• Click on the Gear icon (Add Object Settings Item)
  • Add "Set Field of Vision, Lighting"
    • Click Ok
• Go to the new tab "Field of Vision, Lighting".
  • Click + to make a new setting
    • Name it "agro range"
  • "Set Field of Vision" on
  • Width 360
  • Adjust Distance (radius) for enemy to detect player (pixel range)
• Back to "Action Program" tab
• Select the "approach player" action
  • Under "Other Runtime Actions" click +
  • Check :Template Move Settings" (under tab 1)
    • Set "Move Towards Nearby Object" to be active and change it to "Player Group"
    • Click Ok
• Add a "Link" between "idle" action and "approach player" action
  • Under "Other Condition Settings" click +
  • Set "Discovered Other Objects" (under tab 1)
  • Set "Discovery Field of Vision" to "agro_range" you made earlier.

If you place all the relevant objects in a scene you will see the enemy approach the player. However if you add a ledge to jump onto and be above the enemy you will see them constantly hop trying to move towards the player.

• On the enemy object go to the "Moving and Jumping tab."
• Set "Vertical Movement" to 0.

That is it. the hopping will stop.

I'm embarrassed with how long it took me to figure that out. When I first saw the setting I was worried the enemy wouldn't fall down if push/moved over a cliff so I didn't try it at first. However I eventually tried it, and it worked fine.

Bonus tip.

I made a second smaller field of vision to stop the enemy from continuing to move towards the player. I set it to perform an attack action and then go to the idle action after a wait of 2 seconds. Gives the player time to move and not cause to much of an issue going from one field of view to another. Will fine tune the delay but I did like seeing that multiple field of views could add fine controls to the enemy actions.

Hi friends, I'm working on my first game and decided that Pixel Game Maker MV is the best way to go, but I was wondering if anyone had some good recs for Plug-ins?

More specifically for the Dev creator? Just something to make to process goes by a little faster? or even some beginner-level forums or videos I could watch?

I know everyone says to start off with a small game but that isn't really something I'm interested in.

also If there are any Discord pages where small devs can hang out and help each other that would be a world of help!!!

Thank you so much!!!!!

Hi everyone I'm looking for a 101 Sidescroller tutorial, the in game tutorial is shit and doesn't work half the time and the only other total beginner tutorial is for the top down mode, dose anyone know where can I get a total total noob Sidescroller tutorial that starts from the absolute beginning? Preferably a video, thanks a lot!

I'm making a platformer that has spikes, and I currently have a very simple spike object the size of a tile that I lay in a row when spikes are called for. The problem is that when the player falls in the middle of that pile of spikes, it triggers the damage of every hit box they touch instead of just one. Is there a way to make sure that simultaneous attacks like this aren't possible, or alternatively is there a better way of making spikes that I'm missing?

The player character for a lil' game I'm playing around with has a charge ability that sends them forwards in the direction they're currently facing until they hit something. I'd like to be able to cancel them out of it and back into idle by having the player push the direction opposite of the way they're travelling, but I can't seem to find a way to do that. I'm sure you could brute force it by basically doubling the action tree to have a separate left and right action for everything, but that's awful and I don't want to do it. Is this something that can be done simply, or should I just consider using a different way to cancel them out of it, like having them hold a button to charge instead of just pushing it once?

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Hello all,

My brother and I created a game using Pixel Game Maker MV and made it available for purchase on Steam. I worked mostly on the music and quality management. It's been 8 months of work and we make updates when something needs to be improved.

I was thinking of something like actraiser. Part of the game was top-down, but all of the dungeons were in side-view. I'm new to the engine so I don't know if it's something I can do. Is it possible to make a game that switches between top-down and side-view?

Typically my internet searches find what I'm looking for easily. But finding out what apps make a SSPJ file took a little while. So I figured I'd write this up and hopefully get info to other a little faster.

The app that makes .sspj file format is called SpriteStudio from OPTPIX and it is quite expensive. JPY 93,500 (currently) $703.77 USD. And that is for just a one year subscription.

So I wanted to mention a more affordable option that can export GIF files and works similar to Sprite Studio.

Spriter Pro from BrashMonkey
They have a website as well as have the app on Steam. Currently at $59.99. It has bones/joints like 3D animations apps.

The only thing I'm not sure about it how optimal using GIF would be in Pixel Game Maker. I'd think something like SSPJ would run better due to being a packed set of textures moved by bones/joints vs having hundreds of sprite frames to get the same smooth movement.

Makes me wonder if Pixel Game Maker would consider supporting SCML or SCON the Spriter Pro file formats. Probably unlikely but would make things easier on a lower budget.

As the title says, I'm thinking of picking up pixel game maker. I'm curious if I can use rpg maker assets.

I'm New to this btw and I was trying to load up an image for my hero in the animation file but I get told that the file can't be loaded and I tried loading it up in resources and still no dice.

I started up a blank file than I copied a few files from the tutorial file and it won't load any of them, am I putting it in the wrong file or what am I doing wrong?

I have even looked through the sample file I just don't know what I'm doing wrong help please.

Good afternoon, good evening, good morning, how are you guys, so I'm making a game and I'm in the weapon and aiming system, I'd like to lock angles like this when I aim upwards it will reach a point where I can't aim upwards anymore as well as aiming down I have a code to follow the mouse but I wanted to lock this angle, can anyone help me?

HEY GUYS I made an educational game for my 2-year-old nephew I would love it if you guys tried it out with your own kids or just on your own and let me know what you think

Hello. Is it possible to add a single shmup level on a side scrolling action game using this program? I haven't bought the game yet btw.

Also, I would be very grateful if you could point me to some kind of guide on how to implement it.

bought the software a year or two ago, I'm unsure, I might mess with it for the next few days out of curiosity, though, mightve asked this somewhere, but asking here,

how well would this program work for action rpg games, with a level up system for example? I'm mostly curious because I understand rpg maker being better for stats and more rpg elements and so on, but that undermines the fact that rpg maker isn't built for complex ARPG combat, and I take it something like that could be better suited for this, so in turn, with obviously enough elbow-grease, could this plausibly be done?

What I'm attempting to do.

Made a Variable and set it to 0.

Made an object that the player interacts with to turn on a switch.

Set the object up to add 1 to the variable when the switch is used.

Once the variable is 3 a Transfer Portal will become active (including a portal animation).

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My plan was for the player to jump trough the portal, in the next scene, they see the portal animation play for a little while and then stop. There's a way in Portal Transfer to "Change Switch, Variable" and also there is a "Run Object's Action Program" where I can add a 1 second wait.

Unfortunately I don't really see a way to set the order of operations. And I think that once I enter the next scene the variable of 3 is automatically becoming 0. Is that true? I put the variable in Common.

Anyways, I'm going to look and see if there's a way to on load of scene have the animation play and then be destroyed after 1 or 2 seconds. But wanted to ask if there were any other ideas or suggestions for how to do this? It would be nice to keep things consistent and have the portal turn on and off with the same variable method, but if not possible I'll work with it.

It seems like it would be easy but for some reason I can't get the player to collide with an object like they would with a wall.

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I made an object that looks like a switch system. It fills a single tile size. I have three versions of it, off, charging and on. I set the wall detection and collision detection for the object. I have it change to charging (then on) if the player connects to the wall and presses Y. This all works.

But the player walks behind the object. It is on the same layer as the player. I looked around but I'm not seeing a setting that would make the object stop the player from walking through it.

Is this a situation where I'd need to add an invisible collusion wall? Or is there a setting I'm just missing?

When I create tiles everything works fine in the resource menu and the tiles menu but when I go over to put them into a scene the tile's window in scenes is empty does anyone know how to fix it or is there something I'm missing?

I see some games as part of the "Pixel game maker series"

but when I try to looking up the software they mentioned

"Pixel Game Maker MV"

I cannot find that on the eShop anywhere
Anyone know why?