General Update (Patreon)

Hello everyone!

This week I've chosen to develop a new "GameMaker Studio 2 - Beginner's Guide" This will be sort of reminiscent of my older "GameMaker Basics" video for 1.x, built again for 2.0 but with a sort of new style. 

I'm putting in a facecam and doing the video in a somewhat more freeform way, it's a little difficult to explain but you'll see what I mean. I think it'll work well for this kind of video.

I'm only recently realizing just how out of date some of what was my most popular and successful work was. Even with 2.3 around the corner I thought that it was important to keep a strong entry point and guide to the software available on my channel as otherwise I think most people are diving straight into the platformer which might not be ideal for them.

Believe it or not this "new style" has made the video (relatively) quick to develop (which will help when I probably decide to remake it again after 2.3), you'll have to let me know what you think when it comes out. It's still scripted but a bit more loosely, it's a little long at 30m but it's information rich and doesn't really waste much time, I'm pretty happy with it but I'm interested in your feedback when it comes out. If I can I'll get it up here later today, and out to the public tomorrow.

Likely to see ARPG 26 next week, I still dare to dream that we'll be done the ARPG before the end of the year if the pace keeps up.

You'll notice I've been streaming regularly on Fridays, doing viewer-submitted game streams. I'm planning to keep going with this although we might vary the stream content a bit soon.

-S