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Mirrorstreet
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I've been working on a small game for a few weeks now, but I've come across a big problem; the size limitations.
My player-character is a hand drawn sprite, therefore the size is a lot bigger than a pixel game would be. My player is 132 x 170 px (which is even smaller than I intended to). I'm creating a maze like level, so corresponding with the size I ended up making the level about 8200 x 5400 px. The view is 1920 x 1080 px, because I thought that in order to get a good quality view I need to make it as big as most screens who are being used.
The problem came when I tried adding backgrounds and foregrounds because the size limitations scale it back and then stretch it out again. .. also they flip a little bit and after a while Game Maker starts being angry over not having enough memory. Which I get. I just didn't think that my idea would call for rocket-science and I don't know how to fix it. I want to make an animated background, so slicing it up would make other things difficult..
I work with drag and drop, but I can be flexible (as long as I don't have to do everything with code after this).
Does anyone have any tips? Is there a guide about hand drawn sprites and how it works with sizes, resolutions and sprite quality that I don't know about?
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3olRdYFIJJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Thanks!
My player-character is a hand drawn sprite, therefore the size is a lot bigger than a pixel game would be. My player is 132 x 170 px (which is even smaller than I intended to). I'm creating a maze like level, so corresponding with the size I ended up making the level about 8200 x 5400 px. The view is 1920 x 1080 px, because I thought that in order to get a good quality view I need to make it as big as most screens who are being used.
The problem came when I tried adding backgrounds and foregrounds because the size limitations scale it back and then stretch it out again. .. also they flip a little bit and after a while Game Maker starts being angry over not having enough memory. Which I get. I just didn't think that my idea would call for rocket-science and I don't know how to fix it. I want to make an animated background, so slicing it up would make other things difficult..
I work with drag and drop, but I can be flexible (as long as I don't have to do everything with code after this).
Does anyone have any tips? Is there a guide about hand drawn sprites and how it works with sizes, resolutions and sprite quality that I don't know about?
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3olRdYFIJJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Thanks!