You might know me from my commerical work but I spend my free time making libraries to help developers.
GML is something of a quirky language and has led me to evolve particular techniques to establish a personal "best practice". You can read some of my thoughts on the nuances of developing in GameMaker here.
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Scribble Deluxe Powerful, fully featured text renderer Optimised for dynamic effects and dialogue |
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Input Comprehensive cross-platform input Now maintained by offalynne |
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Scribble Jr. Fast and lightweight text renderer Optimised for UI text and performance |
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Vinyl Live updating modular audio system |
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SNAP Struct and array export/import and utilities |
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Chatterbox Narrative scripting tool |
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Dynamo Dynamic data loading |
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Snitch Logging and crash handling system |
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iota Miniature fixed timestep library |
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Bulb 2D lighting and shadows |
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Texan Texture group manager |
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DoLatercall_later but with arguments |
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Clean Shapes Antialiased primitive drawing |
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db Simple savedata database |
Other stuff you might like too:
| dotobj Comprehensive .obj importer |
PRNG PRNG functions |
| Elephant Advanced struct/array serialization |
Coroutines Asynchronous functions for GameMaker |
| Shockwaves Shader-based ripple distortion |
Kawase Blur Kawase dual filter blur |
| LUT Commonly used for colour grading |
A Message from Amalthea Procedural audio toy |
| Quaternions Simple quaternion library |
Matrices Matrix manipulation functions |
| Sphinx Simple encryption |
HMAC-Secured Savedata Featured on the YoYoGames tech blog |
| Unity Analytics Unity Analytics implementation |
Google Analytics Google's Measurement Protocol v4 |
| gl_FragDepth How to enable gl_FragDepth in GLSL ES |
BIG Integers Big integer handling |
| Extending JSON Experimental JSON-like data formats |
Splat Vertex buffer-based sprite caching |