PHANTASMAX'S PROFILE

author=Darken

@Darken This looks amazing.

@Bulma
Up and down to select the classes, left and right to select unique bonuses. Not sure what to call it exactly, so I called it "blessings" for now.

Trying to make a UI for action rpg:



Got LVL, HP, MP, SP (stamina), EXP, and a skill bar. Am I missing anything else? What else can be improved? Ignore the thing at the top right, that's just stats display for testing purposes.

Took a 2 year break from game dev, coming back to it now because I have more time. Bought a buncha cheap RPG assets on humble bundle too, so I got some of of the art covered, hopefully. Question, is it weird to use art assets from different style tilesets? I made a town, got some fancy looking buildings mixed in with some really plain ones. Should I keep it like this, or try to get everything matching by sticking to one tileset?

author=Link_2112
I do remember the older version being a bit clunky to work with. So far I've been only using it a day and can see how versatile it is. The small test project I've made is already better than any action game I've ever made in 2k3 heh For whatever that's worth. Makes me want to port all my games over, since action games are all I make x.x

One problem I seem to have already is finding good tutorials for the Drag and Drop interface. It's mostly the code interface I find. Some of the drag and drop commands are hard to figure out.

How big or complex is your game going to be? For smaller, less complex projects, Drag and Drop is probably fine, but once you increase the complexity of your game, you would probably want to switch to using code instead because you will be able to do more things and it will be much more efficient using code vs dragging and dropping commands/events everywhere. The good news is the scripting language for Gamemaker (GML) is very easy to learn and there are a ton of beginner tutorials on how to use it.

Still, if you're new to Gamemaker and coding, I would probably recommend you try to Drag and Drop tutorial first to see how some of the logic works, then as soon as possible, try to do the same in code. You'll see that it isn't that much harder to use code at all, and soon you will forget why you ever wanted to use Drag and Drop. Code fear is real, because looking at it at first, it looks like a foreign language. If you take some time and learn things step by step though, you'll be fine. It does take practice to get good at something. There are a ton of resources you can use, from the documentation, youtube tutorials, to asking the Gamemaker community for help if you have any coding related questions.

If you insist on using only the Drag and Drop (DnD) interface, then the documentation + Gamemaker community would probably be your best resources. I don't think there are too much video or written tutorials on using DnD, due to the reasons I listed above when you compare coding vs DnD. There may be better engines to use if you solely want to use drag and drop type interface (maybe clickteam fusion?). Anyway, whatever you choose, good luck on making your game!