Recounting A Successful Failure (The Spaceslingers Post-Mortem)

This is the part two of my original post A Pre-Post Mortem About Marketing, if you haven’t read that, I highly recommend you do so as I won’t be covering the same material here and a lot of people found the original post helpful. So what does a successful failure look like? Well, first, let’s […]

Procedural Generation in GMS #7: To Perturb A Room (Dungeon Generation)

In this entry, we learn about perturbing rooms to generate a dungeon layout!

Procedural Generation in GMS #6: A* Is Born (Pathfinding’s Greatest Hits)

In this entry we explore the fascinating world of pathfinding, culminating in a fully featured A* pathfinding algorithm that takes tile costs into account!

Procedural Generation in GMS #5: A Flood of Fills

In this entry, we learn how a little bit of recursion can make some big waves with the flood fill algorithm.

Procedural Generation in GMS #4: Connecting the Dots with Bresenham’s

In this entry, we learn how to use Bresenham’s line algorithm to connect two points quickly and efficiently.

Procedural Generation in GMS #3: Creating Sweet Maps with Cellular Automata

In this entry, we dive into the fascinating world of map generation using Cellular Automata.

Procedural Generation in GMS #2: Learning the Basics

In the second entry in the series, we learn about the data structures we will be using in future procedural generation techniques.

Procedural Generation in GMS #1: An Introduction

This is the first entry in a series about creating procedurally generated content using GMS 2.3.

Generating Maps (Bonus Plug and Play Map Generation Code Inside)

While I’ve been working on the Workshop update to Spaceslingers, I’ve been doing some procedural generation work on the side. Proc-gen is one of my favourite things to play around with, it’s always super cool to see what you can make the computer create. So, as is my wont, I’ve been making map generators. Contents […]

A Pre-Post-Mortem About Marketing

Five hard earned lessons I learned about marketing while making Spaceslingers for $0…