How to Make an RPG in GameMaker Studio 2! (Part 3: Tiles and Simple Camera)

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[@Miss-lr6zt]

still saving lives in 2024!! literally the best tutorial out there

[@alexmartinez-tj1zc]

SI

[@i_eatbabies-rb5gr]

FRRRRRR, this is helping me smmmm and is actually making me so excited in game designnn!! ;;

[@TheLTak3r]

Da

[@nauticul1999]

Okay. So you are literally the ONLY tutorial I've been able to follow without some issue or outdating in the code? and I'd just like to say, I've NEVER understood code more than before your tutorials. Legit. You're so comprehensive and friendly and approachable with the way you go about your tutorials instead of robotic, and it really caused me to start semi-understanding what you were saying! Granted, will I still need to reference this code anytime I wanna make another top down project? most likely. until it becomes muscle memory of course, but DAMN. Thanks for making this so fun!

[@PankakesTheReal]

YES you are so right

[@MegaU]

Literally aloud said "ohhhhhh that makes sense!" when you started saying about adding the walls again!! I love following these videos sm and ty, sm!!!

[@robbywilliams6391]

i genuinely have so much respect for you and I cant thank you enough. this is an amazing feeling. being able to interact and have other people interact with your work that you got to express yourself creatively with. you rock dude, tysm

[@BubbaNak]

i didnt do the link because im... uhh lazy lol and you get a good chance to learn! legit subbed as soon as i heard it. BTW very engaging and the additional background music is awesome. Your pace is perfect and makes me feel like someone who knows im capable of doing it is teaching me. not teaching a room full of varying experience while worrying if every student understood... i can follow this as a beginner with almost no personal experience writing code, but don't feel drudged down by the explanations or commentary. Thank you so much for this series!

[@angelomosca8649]

My friend, such a well-made tutorial is hard to come by! Congratulations indeed. You've managed to explain things to me that I had never understood in years, and English is not my native language... So far, I've found everything very clear and straightforward. The background music has really dug into my brain, and now I even dream about it at night, hahaha.

[@Drathel302]

Peyton, thank you for your hard work making these videos so easy to follow along with. You've made the learning process fun and intuitive. Thank you!

[@MegaU]

If you changed the tileset sprite and it hasn't applied to the assets in the room, just save, close, and reopen GameMaker!! Worked for me, and just commenting this in case anyone else got stuck there haha :)

[@NalanHi]

Thank you so much!! I was so about to flip the lid😂🎉🎉🎉

[@MegaU]

@@NalanHi Ahh no worries! Glad to be of help :)

[@NalanHi]

@@MegaU I subbed to you

[@luvyouaugust]

you just saved me from hours of googling thank you so much

[@MegaU]

@@luvyouaugust no worries 😊 glad to have helped!

[@AutMouseLabs]

I have used and made tutorials for years and I have to say these are really excellent. Subscribed for sure.

[@SpringySpring04]

This artwork really reminds me of OMORI So cooooollll!!

[@peytonburnham4316]

I still haven’t gotten around to playing it yet but I definitely want to!

[@aaronroberts7047]

@@peytonburnham4316 oh it's great dude you really should Also thank you so much for this tutorial! I actually cannot stress how useful it's been

[@i_eatbabies-rb5gr]

@@peytonburnham4316 oh my god, OMORI is literally what got me trying to find video's like yours (which have saved my life in 2024 btwww)

[@Room_Temp_IQ]

hey man! Also just wanted to give my appreciation for your tutorials! Learning gml is easy when you guide me through it so well!

[@FzzyBzzy]

This is a fucking great tutorial peyton. I don't know how to code but I'm having fun following along with you :D

[@NoLongerTwee]

I really appreciate these, thank you for your comprehensive, entertaining and informative tutorials! ^v^

[@TomatoPapyrusGuy]

btw, if you want to make different objects that have collision instead of putting: if (place_meeting(x + hsp, y, obj_collision_1) || place_meeting(x + hsp, y, obj_collision_2)) You can make a parent for all collisions and detect for the parent: if place_meeting(x + hsp, y, obj_collision_parent) And then it makes it easier to add more

[@boboisnotyou]

Easy to follow and also easy to learn, thank you for these tutorials

[@h.valors7251]

Thanks man! Love ur guides. They are very simple to learn.

[@shahtariqali]

"good practice to imitate stuff u see.. good practice, good practice..." ITS GOOD PRACTICE TO STOP BEING LAZY ! I NEED THT TILESET

[@p0pst1cle4]

Bruh those are his sprites, he did not even have to show them, he could just say that you can't copy em, be more greatefulč

[@dotmatrix9143]

Thank you so much for these tutorials, I'm having so much fun making my little game. You make it so easy to follow and just wanted to say I'm so grateful for the time and effort you've put into making these, thank you

[@p0pst1cle4]

You are a legend, I am about to finish my game and get and A just because you showed me how, ngl you are sooo underrated

[@razermoon7215]

hey idk if u can help but do u know why when i put view ports visible they don't show up?

[@p0pst1cle4]

Did you enable clear ports

[@reggoodwin8311]

You are a Rock Star.. so easy to follow and understand your teaching..great work!

[@werenotacouple]

Thank you so much for these videos, I managed to make a small game for my friend's birthday thanks to you!! I'm so happy to have found your channel, you're really really good at teaching these things, I had basically 0 experience with coding and I still managed to pull something together for my friend thanks to you!!

[@sausagecandles]

wow, your great! no confusion at all! i didnt just copy the code, i learned it, now its ingrained into my brain, thats something only YOU HAVE DONE!

[@PankakesTheReal]

the views on each part went down,which is understandable because maybe they were faced with an issue they couldnt solve(it took me half an hour to fix blurry sprites)but you're really comprehensive.Good job

[@shaneduquette]

How'd you fix the blurry sprites?

[@PankakesTheReal]

@@shaneduquette you just need to turn off interpolate between pixels in the settings menu at the top of the screen

[@shaneduquette]

@@PankakesTheReal that worked! Thank you!

[@alfieknox]

thanks so much for these videos!! I’m a producer and have tried dabbling in game dev over the years (mainly because I want to write a soundtrack for a game) but also because I have a story to tell about some fucked mental health shit that i’ve been through / going through haha. This series is helping me get there and I can’t thank you enough for that. I was actually watching some of your other vids and I see that you make music too, always an added bonus when someone loves mooozic too 😂😂. I’ve already started making the soundtrack lol, using an M8 tracker bcs the FN synthesis on that thing is really fun. Wish I could somehow raise the money for a eurorack and work on that a bit too but, where’s a man gonna get multiple thousands from HAHA! Sticking with ableton for some of the tracks tho, got some real nice plugins that I spent some real nice money on haha. Anyway, sorry for the long comment!! Thanks and best wishes on your projects ❤️

[@waluigi1711]

Is it possible to change the tile sprites size after you have drawn on it? Great tutorials btw

[@ejjame393]

the music went silent when u said "i was lazy" funni

[@LuciferzLittleHelper]

when I tried to remake the tiles I messed up but tbh it makes it look so much cooler in my game

[@detanoj]

so my tiles are not showing in there its just black area the walls are there but the tiles not i..i dont have anything against black but :) what should i do?

[@Turtlethantwigs]

Man I have the save problem too

[@ShrtCrct]

Best. Series. Ever.

[@captguyliner]

Having an issue at 7:42 when i try to create another tile path it wont let me draw any further than the previous small section, even after making the room size bigger. not sure what i did wrong.. these tutorials are amazing though, man. thank you so much!

[@resproject1731]

There is like for You. Thank You very much for Your lessons.

[@Someone-zn4dh]

"because I'm lazy" *cut to an ada of random dude screaming*

[@offline6348]

ITs really great but i just want to know how to use the white outline on the titles :)

[@SecretEccentric]

just in case anyone is following along to this and having the same issue, when running the game all your tiles become a mess of checkerboard with red/orange/green gradients, I found that changing the output border X and Y in the tileset properties to 0 instead of the default 2 fixes the issue.

[@CalbDoesStuff]

For some reason the camera is off centered, I copied your settings exactly. Any ideas?

[@Monster_Face_RB]

"I was too lazy".... He's not the hero Gotham deserves... he's the hero Gotham needs.

[@constant938]

when i set the camera to follow my player object the screen gets really shakey while moving, i think because i set my player to a lower movement speed. how do i make the camera smoother?

[@cyberspaghetti2142]

i have the same problem, pls help... anyone?

[@KatScrtchReal]

the only trouble I had with your tutorials was in the last video with if xspd > 0 {face = RIGHT} I honestly thought that the curly brackets where normal brackets

[@ferociousspy9590]

when i test my tiles, they dont load when i test the game nothing except for walls and character show

[@ferociousspy9590]

Btw its fixed. To fix it you need to download the newer version

[@chickynicky_yt]

Can't you just use multiple tile sets for different things, like one for house layout, another for furniture and so on instead of mashing all of them in one tile set?

[@TRUECHAD13]

i am sitting here with my juice box making a game till 12am

[@Matt-jq1jy]

I keep rewatching the video and the same problem keeps arising, after the collisions walls are placed I run it and my player keeps running into invisible collisions and some of the collisions just don't work

[@mixdevelops]

I'm having so much fun with making this, there's just one problem I'm constantly having, if I run into a wall, and do 2 movements at once, I get stuck in the wall, how to fix this? Thanks😊 edit: also, i made an outside room, and when i change the border stuff, it still scales it to the whole room, please tell me how i can fix it

[@kelsennyingifa4143]

Dope thinking

[@MrStickMN]

What’s the grid width and height for 10:30 ?

[@jacobreinhardt436]

If your importing your own tile set and it shows exclamation marks when you go to paint them in your scene, closing and reopening the app should fix it

[@Crambly]

quick question, the tiles that i use dont appear in the game when i play-test even though i did every single step identically multiple times. What might be wrong?

[@peytonburnham4316]

Hm, interesting. If they are showing up in the room editor okay i can only think of a couple things. 1. If you have more than 1 room in your project, make sure the room you put the tiles in is the first in the room order. you could be editing 1 room, but when you start the game you end up in another. 2.make sure your layer is set to visible and make sure it has a lower number in "depth" than any of the background layers (but this should already be the case) sorry i cant help out more!

[@Crambly]

@@peytonburnham4316 for some reason after relogging into gamemaker 2, it says that the tileset that i use goes missing

[@Crambly]

i will try resolving the issue myself now though! thank you for the tips!

[@ferociousspy9590]

I have this exact same issue

[@Squiferz]

I checked around and it seems that if you just restart your computer, it should fix itself. I had the same problem.

[@TheOddHolloway]

I’m learning how to make a game, and your videos have been a GARGANTUAN help. I am struggling though, with sprinting. I’ve figured out how to sprint, yet my character keeps sprinting through walls (I cannot walk through them which is good). I’m using the same collision method you use, however I’m trying to look for different collision methods, which in its self is difficult 😅. Does anyone here know if there is a video or a website that touches upon different collision methods if any? Never mind I figured it out, the script I wrote for sprinting was messy and from an old tutorial.

[@razermoon7215]

hey idk if u can help but do u know why when i put view ports visible they don't show up?

[@TheOddHolloway]

@@razermoon7215 Do you mean visible when you play the game, or when you are viewing the room? I am assuming you already clicked “make viewport visible”. Maybe you haven’t set the size correctly?

[@sunwrek]

7:37 leaving this here so i remember lol

[@SerialCommenter]

This was quite the asset in getting back into developing games after a few years. I know it's been a while since the upload, but since this is an RPG and all, will there be tips on how to make combat?

[@RPGmario64]

Nope lol. Seems to be a trend with rpg tutorials. They stop creating vids the moment it’s time to program the, you know, actual rpg part. Either way I appreciate what he’s got here. Luckily I figured out how to build my turn based combat system on my own, so now I’m watching these as I start to work on the overworld lol

[@leakdt]

@@RPGmario64 actually, peyton said he would eventually

[@jason256-8]

I’m not using a tile sets because for my Undertale fangame project, I am using the full maps themselves that I premade 2-5 months ago. Also, they’re frustrating considering that each of my tiles are 20x20 pixels and they end up warping on my room editor.

[@noahbarger1]

this may be late but you can change the grid to 20x20 and that may do something. anyways good luck with your fangame. i'mma try and do one of my own soon, but i'm not really a great artist so making assets is pretty hard for me.

[@infin-ite]

Thank you so much oh my lord

[@im_spimich]

for some reason the player wont stay in the middle of the screen when the camera follows it. its a little off center and it bothers me so much and idk how to fix it D:

[@Baked_Beans251]

how did you change the size of the tile sprites? from 64 x 64 to 112 x 176

[@Pineappleinatophat]

You change the size of the image

[@Clownin-round]

I did everything like you said to and somehow there's collision where there shouldn't be... I even tried resetting the instances but it doesn't change

[@peytonburnham4316]

Sounds like you probably need to go back and check your collision masks for all of the sprites for your wall objects and the player!

[@Clownin-round]

I made a typo in the place meeting and it took me hours to find this 😭😭😭

[@peytonburnham4316]

Darn, Another Clown well I’m glad you found it! But yep that’s just programming for you, you’ll get better at finding the type-os and misspellings so dont worry too much about it!

[@boinky92]

maybe i'll see this happen the further into these videos i watch ,, think it'd be useful to see a import tilesets how to video

[@razermoon7215]

hey idk if u can help but do u know why when i put view ports visible they don't show up?

[@Irl_happywheels]

I've been following this tutorial for a few days and everything was going fine. But all of a sudden everything has gone crazy glitched and I have no idea what's happened. I've been through the code, and nothing appears to be wrong, but it still won't function properly. Does anyone have any ideas on what to do or how to prevent this in future?

[@hsjwvs]

Bro everyone on the comment is so exaggerated and its cringey, which makes it more deserving as i am one of them😆 no cap good tutorials

[@MichaelBacaArtist]

Finding the video super helpful! Have just one question. At 7:42 your level expands as to include the new area, how did you do that? I cannot get my visual area any larger.

[@IAmBlueChicken]

You have to resize the camera

[@shlecko]

hey there, my walls are only spawning on the top left corner of grids, would you know how I can resize the viewport grids to 16x16?

[@shlecko]

got it! no worries anymore, found the setting lol

[@loganvaught1359]

@@shlecko whats the setting?

[@bctvYT]

@@loganvaught1359 2x2 window pane looking thing in the top right with an arrow, click the arrow and it should show grid x and grid y

[@max-ic9nt]

the camera isnt working but i feel like everything is right ;; ive watched this video a few times and can’t figure it out (the only difference is that my room size is larger than his) but even when i change it to 400x500 the camera won’t move (enable viewports and visible are on and i have my player in obj following ;;) camera properties w: 288 h: 216 viewport properties w: 864 h: 648 horizontal border: 144 vertical border: 108 ;;

[@GuerraPStudio]

AMAZING! How can I expand my stationwork because the programm just let met do 64x64.

[@saxenart]

Do you also have a video about how to go from room to another room? Another question, can i also make my character sprite and background place on another program and import it in gamemaker studio 2 and still make those blue walls and interact with objects?

[@omgaby1357]

yes, both. He has a video to change rooms and you do can import. Thats literally what importing do, all you have to do is have it saved with a transparent background on your computer, create a new sprite on the sprite folder, import the character image and do everything else normally

[@saxenart]

@@omgaby1357 thanks a lot, I’ll look more into it

[@Adam-or9gi]

Hi great video but, when I start the game for some reason the camera doesn't take the player but one of the walls. I changed the camera setting but, I couldn't find the right setting. Can you help me?

[@Ramen5000Manga]

um excuse me but for some reason the walls are following some invisible grid rather than the grid im using for the tiles

[@EyeCantDraw_]

I think I messed something up, and my tiles are just my character. does anyone have any ideas why it happened

[@Mackievellian]

9:04... questionable shape for the room there.

[@immeryimmy]

HOW DO I FIX MY CAMERA? IT SQUASHED MY PLAYER WHEN I OPENED THE GAME UP(sorry caps)

[@gabry008_yt2]

i got an error that says "error in action number 1 of create player fort object obj_player.." how do i resolve it?

[@Ramen5000Manga]

neverminded i found out how to fix it by changing the origin to the bottom right

[@YoxiiPlzz]

I literally did a 3 hours for it just to copy all your tiles and it was hard to count the pixels :))

[@runningthroughtheborealwinter]

What's the name of the chiptune song that's playing in the background? I want to listen to it, please!

[@andriamegrelishvili4736]

whats the music on the backround i really love it

[@Nirowa_]

i cant place objects outside the camera border, can you tell me how to place them?

[@leizykat4263]

how do i position the camera at the beginning of the game to where i want?

[@hot_dog788]

When the camera follows my chracter everything sort of jitters. Is there any solution for this?

[@omgaby1357]

sometimes it can be the character speed, i realised my character would be all messed up when he was walking with the speed higher than 1 Edit: i realised its not the higher than 1, it's decimal numbers, 1.7, 2.80. just put 1, 2, 3

[@amoxy.]

@@omgaby1357 this comments like a year old but you totally saved me a headache thank you

[@Guyman69420]

im havign a problem with the camera following it doesnt move otuside of my vewport

[@Ab00d_234]

7:34 when i changed the size i can't draw in the other side, can anyone explain and give me the solution ?

[@possiblypinch6992]

having same problem

[@palehydrangea]

whenever i test the camera, my player sprite gets incredibly blurry whereas the room tiles look perfectly fine. this had not occured until i set up the camera. how do i fix it?

[@UCcS6oa-iV9ZmbyPPnBCttSQ]

same issue,

[@herogames691]

the camera follow worked but its shaking. can anyone help me pls :(

[@Potato_gam7ng]

when i did that veiwport thing on 8:55 my game is just pitch black and i have no idea how to fix it

[@dostutosdepollo8428]

When I place the tiles they are superimposed on the character, what do I do?

[@IDI_NULL]

Question: HOW DID YOU GET THE OUTLINE ON THE PINK TILES

[@IDI_NULL]

never mind i figured out how

[@meowkittygamer8]

Ok I have a huge problem, at 3:26 you spread out the tiles across the room. For some reason, that puts my player under the layer of the tiles. Does anybody know how to fix this?

[@chuckmorris3552]

Hey Meow dude, make sure in the top left corner that your Tiles Layer is between Instances and Background like at 3:26.

[@meowkittygamer8]

@@chuckmorris3552 thanks

[@rykersage]

take the layer your player object is in and drag it on top of the Tiles layer

[@boxlord7765]

help i accidentally closed the room editor and it wont open back up

[@regularuseaccount3227]

But I also want to add story.How can we?????

[@alien_animations295]

Why will wall not snap to griddddd

[@LukeJohnson-sk6ds]

What's the song at the end called?

[@sleepieste]

how do u draw on the tiles after you've made them?

[@sleepieste]

I DON¨T KNOW HOW TO DRAW WALLS

[@delvanoelvin]

Surprising there's no scripting going on

[@CanadaCommunism]

Hey guys, I'm having trouble with placing tiles. They just appear as "!"

[@EGGVR_THE_EGG]

PLZ can u give me the files for the tiles?

[@miah-sempai]

i am still at 10:38

[@geysongamer404]

where are the tiles?

[@ItsProLemon]

9:10

[@quickcooker5]

:)

[@Bruh-zo4jm]

no idea where to go after 9:57

[@FR3Y4IK]

5:04

[@ethanol294]

I can walk through some of my walls wtf