How To Make Saving and Loading for a Platformer

Today’s Game maker Studio 2 project shows a way of handling the feature of saving and loading a game. It focuses on retaining what level the player was in, the abilities they have obtained in their adventure and allow new modes to unlock depending on how much the player has progressed. This system was made for 2D platformers and is designed to handle level progress and setting the values of important variables to true or false. It is not suitable for RPG’s or Zelda style games. It specifically cannot handle the position of puzzle objects, inventory, treasure chests, special events and growing crops.

Project Link: Project File (Press Download All, run the project in Gamemaker Studio 2)

Gamemaker Studio 2: How To Make Full screen Switching

A good feature for a video game to have is full screen switching. Full screen helps a game feel more immersive and being able to switch out of it helps people who have specific monitor setups. Today will show how you a method for implementing full screen switching.

In Gamemaker Studio 2, make an object and call it o_fullscreen.

Turn persistent on. A persistent object only has to be placed in a room once for it’s code to run through the whole game.

Make a key press event and set the key to F1. Add the following code:

window_set_fullscreen(!window_get_fullscreen());

In the first room of your game, place o_fullscreen into the Instances layer. o_fullscreen only needs to be put in the first room of your game.

In Options, select the Windows tab. Go into Graphics and change the following:

Allow window resize: ON

Scaling: Full scale

Start fullscreen: OFF

Use synchronization to avoid tearing: OFF

Start the game and press F1 two times. Your game’s screen should effortlessly switch between window and full screen.