A guide to using advanced trigger techniques such as limiting activation to a direction (x,y checks), setting variables upon entry and removing them on exit, making efficient menu systems, and using actors as a pseudo-trigger system that can interact with projectiles and other actors.
Our RPG series continues! In this article, our Battle System is expanded to handle victory and defeat.
Now that we’re tracking variables, let’s use tile swapping to display our variable values on screen. We’ll also spice up our visuals by adding a few simple animations to the scene.
Random Puzzle Generation Welcome back! Now that our puzzle is functioning and you can beat it, we should add some quality-of-life improvements. Since nothing happens after getting the win state, we need to add replayability by offering a new puzzle. To do that, we’ll add random puzzle generation to the code. Beyond that, we need…
Setting Up The Electric Slide With all our movement set up, it’s time to transition the puzzle into its proper form. The artwork we currently have set up is great, but we need to make those tiles slide and move around. Considering the limitations of GB Studio, we quickly encounter two key challenges: a restriction…
Joel J shares how GB Studio’s calculates its maximum variables and the repercussions down the line of passing the limit!
A hands on tutorial on how to create a multi-language switch and support within a Game Boy game!
Veund shows us how to get gameboy games running on the ipod nano!
Learn how to solve the problem of a randomly generated number when the range is not equal to 2 or divisible by 8.
A simple method to getting your Game Boy games running on an Xbox 360.
