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“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” - Kurt Vonnegut
The winter holidays are over and done with and its about time to return to where we left off with in the game itself over in Gamemaker. Yesterday i worked on debugging some of the larger errors over the period of 9 hours, fixing these bugs gave me a ton of confidence and determination which is a good start to returning to programming. Beforehand, my game could not continue in the main menu unless the player was in the first room/level, this by far was the most serious bug i had developing the game, without a fix, my game would be unplayable. Luckily i was able to fix the bug within 1-2 hours which is not bad for something i had been stuck with for a while. Once the continue button worked, i followed with altering the start game event to restart the game after the players made a new game already.
The second most important bug to fix was the rain particle system i had and shown in my latest video. The rain itself worked fine, however the rain would continue into the menu. Thinking to myself that such bug sounds easy, "all i got to do is delete it?" wrong, i found gamemakers code for deleting a particle system to be ridiculous, i spent 2-3 hours research how to stop the system, ends up you have to delete in 3 different ways at once within a specific order too. >> Delete Particle Emitter. >> Delete Particles in room. >> Delete Particle System. I reckon it would be nicer if there was one piece of code to remove them fully since it frustrated me quite a bit. finally reactivate the entire particle system when going back to the room, it came from whenever the player comes back from the main menu. It took some time for me to figure that out but i managed to figure it out in the end. Finally i managed to potentially fix a few other smaller bugs: >> Footstep sound randomly disappearing. >> Slimes attack broke, now fixed again. >> Rain sound bug causing multiple rain sounds to happen at once. >> Some other little things Thats all for this small update, hope to post again soon!
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