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    Wave system in tower defense

    Hi I'm making a tower defense game and I'm struggling to make a wave system, because I want every wave to contain a certain amount of enemies for example: Wave 1 has 10 small enemies Wave 2 has 5 small enemies and 10 medium enemies Wave 3 has 10 small enemies, 15 medium enemies and 5...
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    Problem when testing my game on a 4K TV.

    Hello, Sorry for my english, i'm french ... I have a problem when testing my game on a 4K TV. My game is in 60FPS : Rom size: 1366 * 20000 camera size is 1366 * 768 Windows size: 1920 * 1080 When i test on several PC with monitor, it's perfect. The vertical scrolling is perfectly fluid...
  3. Alexir

    GML Wave type attack?

    I'm trying to make a wave type effect, where an invisible object is created, shot in a direction, and every set time increment a different object spawns on top it, which is the actual attack, creating a trail of attacks. To give you an idea of what I was trying to do here is my code that is not...
  4. yvodlyn

    GML Spawning With Timelines

    Hello everyone, I'm actually making a spawning system with timelines. I thought it was easy but I was wrong. I wonder if anyone has an idea to fix the code or can offer me an advanced wave-spawning system code. The first condition in my code works but the second one never executes. Here the...
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    Free Run And Fun [Google Play]

    Run And Fun is a fast paced defense game in which you defeat hordes of enemies. upgrade your Robot to more efficiently destroy dozen of enemies. currently features: 1 map 4 different enemy types. Support for most controllers for player movement. Leaderbords. things that are coming soon: A free...
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    Legacy GM game hangs

    So i'm trying to get my wave system to work. but when I start my game it will just hang whenever I press the start button the code for the wave is as followed as I think it's related to the spawning of instances which has caused me same kind of problems before. anyway here is the code maybe...
    • Yvalson
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    • Forum: Programming
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    GML Tower Defense Wave System (how to do?) [SOLVED]

    Alright, so I'm just going to explain what I'm going for. I have different obj's that are named after the enemy + _spawner at the end. They will all be placed in the same place, and all of the objects will have set spawn positions for the enemy. For example, obj_goblin_spawner has spawn...
    • Alexander Olofsson
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    • Forum: Programming
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    Wave system tower defence game.

    im making a tower defence game but i cant figure out how to do the wave system. The goal is to press a button and start a new wave of 15 enemies. This wave should come inmediatly without waiting for the last one to finish. It also needs to be infinte. And cycle through sprites. Something like...
    • Antoon125
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    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Programming
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    Legacy GM Creating a dynamically changing background

    Hello, I'm working on a rhythm game, and I want to implement a feature whereby when the player hits a correct note, the background begins to change color. To elaborate on that, I want it to form a "wave" effect, where the background changes in a straight line that moves until it reaches the...
    • Quelandoris
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    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Programming
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    2 paths

    how would i make enemys run across two seperate paths in one wave?
    • spanner206
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    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Programming
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    Wave based spawning

    I am working on an Asteroids clone for learning purposes and I'm trying to come up with an efficient way to do wave based spawns. Here's what I have so far: Create Event: ///initialize variables global.wave = 1; //starts at 5 and increases by one based on global.wave global.asteroid_count =...
    • Quiet_Spark
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    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Programming
  12. TheMagician

    Video-Tutorial: Underwater Shader Effect

    GM Version: GameMaker Studio Target Platform: All (if the hardware supports shaders) Download: Finished Project File Links: Part 1 - Godray Shader --- Part 2 - Wave Distortion Shader Summary: This two-part video gives a quick overview of shaders and then uses two Shadertoy shaders (godray and...
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