Spawns + Redirect [#1 Tower Defence in GameMaker ]
48This is the 1st video in a short Tower Defence series in GameMaker.
The idea is to make a super simple system that allows thousands of spawns to run in a conga line without much customization or using any path or complicated system. In this video we create a spawner that creates in it's looping alarm event a spawn. There you only give the spawn a speed value and direction where to go to. The second part if where we setup a redirection system that redirects the spawns up, down, left or right. So here we simply create a collision event in those redirection instances and change the spawn direction (and xscale) when these bump into each other. That's it!
🚧 For the future: This series will have 3 videos where all the basics are setup and a 4th optional one where constructors are used as a solid spawning setup. The project can be downloaded and since it is ultra small, is free to use (graphics are free also, check out the notes)
💻Project + assets found here:
https://1up-indie2.itch.io/free-tower-defence-project-gamemaker
overworld graphics: Beast CC0
https://opengameart.org/content/overworld-grass-biome
Enemies:
ThKaspar Orga by
https://opengameart.org/content/micro-character-bases-basics
explosion:
JROB774 CC3by
https://opengameart.org/content/pixel-explosion-12-frames
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 What we will do
1:32 Subscribe
1:44 The concept what we do
4:00 Setting up a spawn/enemy
4:34 Setting up a spawner
6:46 Redirection system