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Rabbits and Carrot Maze Labyrinth

Find out which one of the rabbits has found the carrot. Which ones are meeting each other? Which one is going away? © Maze: Celia Ascenso | Agency: Dreamstime.com   Descobre qual foi o coelho que encontrou a cenoura. Quais se encontraram um ao outro? Qual se vai embora?

Snowman Maze

Help the snowman to find the way to the gift. Can you help him go through the maze? © Maze: Celia Ascenso | Agency: Dreamstime.com Ajuda o boneco de neve a encontrar o caminho para o presente. Podes ajudá-lo a atravessar o labirinto?

Game Maker - clicking each and all objects to advance

I needed all of the images on my book-game "Lonely Girl" to be clicked a least once in order do advance to the next page. Being such a newbie at coding it, I figured out a solution using only click and drag programming features on Game Maker. I created an object control named obj_count  with an event setting lives to 5 (3 in my test project): The Set lives action number is absolute, do not check relative: Then I added the event No More Lives to print on the screen an arrow that enables us to go to the next pages. This obj_arrow is only created if lives go down to zero: Then placed this control object on the room (it is not set to visible and it has no sprite). To make lives go down only once per object clicked, I created a variable that prevents that clicking the same object more than once would decrease lives multiple times. Added a Create Event and set a variable unique to that object, in this case var_bola: then set the value to absolute 1: C...

DevLog - Creating a Game - Lonely Girl

I decided to gamify a small book that my younger children and I created some time ago (find it here) , and learn to make a game in the process, using Game Maker. The book-game is about a lonely girl and the importance of little random acts of friendship. In addition, I needed a time frame, or I would never finish it, because I have a hard time finishing things. I decided to enter the Rainbow Jam 2017 , even if I just discovered it, and never heard of game jams before (only music jams, where we improvise). I feel this jam is perfect because it has rainbows in it and a positive energy :)  - and, more important, the celebration of diversity. When ready it will be published on itch.io . Level 2 looks like this image: © Illustration: Celia Ascenso | Agency: Dreamstime.com [DevLog] Lonely Girl Day 1 - Preparing basic sprites, and the first room object placement on GameMaker while learning some basis. Day 2 - Creating sounds to assign to objects, learning h...