I’m now on Part 11 of Shaun Spaldings “Action RPG Tutorial” (Action RPG? You see why in the last blog post…). Shaun is a great expert at GameMaker and following their tutorial has been going great. Text boxes are working now. But as the video series is 3 years old, some of the code doesn’t work as expected when being copied over into newer versions of GameMaker. The only reason I am not ripping my hair out when running into problems is, that some people have done that (be)for(e) me. Thank God for Youtube Comments.
The internet can be the ugliest, meanest place on earth, but sometimes you’ll find places where people really are just happy to share and support each other. So while I won’t be able to thank each and everyone who helped me with this project, I am reminded to be grateful that there are so many people in this game development community (who have run into every imaginable issue before me).
Oh, and as the 2D-layer will be hidden in the final game, it can be as ugly as I want it to be.
